Well, I think there are quite a few individual tasks that are quite difficult in soccer as well... hitting a moving ball with both strength and accuracy from quite a distance away as opponents run at you is no easy feat.
Furthermore, I think that being "good" at any given sport is equally hard, given as how good is simply a deviation from the norm.
That said, I think the key difference between baseball and soccer is that one requires you to be more of a specialist than the other. In baseball you have to be superb in one area, while in soccer you must be at least ok in several, but you don't need to excel at any particular part of the game (goalies excluded).
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