Former first son Barron Trump, the youngest of former President Donald Trump's five children, is also the tallest member of the family, and his exceptional height at a reported 6-foot-7-inches has led many to assume that he'd naturally be a basketball player.

Yet, Barron's preferred sport is soccer, and a highlight reel video clip from a few years ago shows that he is a skilled and talented player on the pitch, according to the Irish Star.

Of course, his towering stature and height advantage over nearly all of his teammates and competitors in that video only fueled the speculative talk that his athletic abilities would be better served on a basketball court.

Video reveals Barron has soccer skills

In 2017, Soccer America reported that Barron Trump, at that time a student at the prestigious St.Andrew’s Episcopal School in Maryland while living in the White House, was on the roster for a developmental squad associated with a Major League Soccer team.

The report indicated that Barron, then 11 years old, played as a midfielder for the D.C. United's U-12 team as part of U.S. Soccer's Development Academy.

Several years later, a video emerged on YouTube of some of Barron's highlights while playing for the D.C. United squad and those clips showed that the former president's son dominated the center of the field with his height, talented footwork and ball-handling, trapping and passing skills, and ability to make tackles and disrupt his opponents' movements with the ball.

He chose soccer over basketball

The comments on that video of Barron Trump playing soccer were full of assumptions that he would make better use of his height and athletic ability on a basketball court instead of a soccer pitch, and those commenters were not alone, as even former President Trump has joked in the past about his exceptionally tall son defying conventional wisdom with his preferred sport.

People magazine reported that Trump said of Barron's height during a campaign rally in January, "I said you're gonna be a basketball player. He said, 'Well, I like soccer dad, actually.' I thought ... at your height I like basketball better but you can't talk them into everything."

The Palm Beach Post reported that while Trump seemingly pushed his son to play basketball instead of soccer, he did not encourage him to play football, even though that is the former president's favorite sport, with the real estate mogul once owning a team -- the New Jersey Generals -- in the now-defunct United States Football League.

In a 2019 Super Bowl interview, the then-president acknowledged that football was a "dangerous sport" and that it would be a "very tough question" if his then-12-year-old son showed interest in playing the game, and said, "If he wanted to? Yes. Would I steer him that way? No, I wouldn’t."

The Post noted that Barron, in addition to playing for D.C. United's U-12 team, also got the opportunity to meet that team's biggest star at the time -- Wayne Rooney, formerly of the English Premier League's Manchester United -- when Rooney and his family attended a non-political White House Christmas Party and posed for pictures with the young first son and aspiring soccer star.

Will Barron play soccer in college?

Barron Trump is now 18 and a high school graduate who is set to attend college in the fall, according to New Jersey's Bergen Record in July, though it remains unclear where he will go and if he will play varsity soccer at the school of his choice.

The top prospects for where Barron will attend school are the University of Pennsylvania -- where his father, older brother Don Jr., and older sisters Ivanka and Tiffany attended -- as well as Georgetown University -- also attended by older brother Eric as well as Ivanka and Tiffany -- with New York University as a final consideration, all of which have decent soccer programs.