All strikers?

We were talking about football aka soccer earlier and the discussion of young players still in the youth acedemies get picked. I have seen coaches say that this or that young player isn't fit to move up in the ranks because they don't score all the time which makes me crazy because anyone actually on a soccer team knows that you don't do best with a team full of strikers. People have wondered why the finding defensive players and good outfielders has become so difficult and I place much of the blame on the glorification of the striker which even those cultivating young players have fallen prey to.

In a team sport it needs to be kept in mind that all the positions are important for the team as a whole to do well. It's great to have an amazing striker but what happens if they never get the ball because no one knows how to pass or if your team gets scored on constantly because no one can defend worth a damn. A team who is incapable of doing as well as they could if all the positions were recognized as not only needful but worthy.

I see this behavior paralleled in many aspects in life. We decide one and only one thing is the best and all the other equally needful for overall personal development, success in a society and happiness in relationships are completely ignored if not outright vilified. Balance seems to be outside of our collective realm although history both personal and societal has shown that extremes are simply unsustainable.