What to do During the Soccer Off-Season

June 14, 2009

If you’re like me, you dread the end of soccer season. Regardless of how your team did last season, it’s still hard facing the summer with no (or limited) soccer. However, there are several things you can do to ease your pain:

Get out and play: Soccer is a great way to keep in shape and [...]

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Is a Soccer Player Really Worth $150 Million?

June 13, 2009

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Hands up if you know or remember the first soccer player in England to be worth over 1 million? Don’t know? It was Trevor Francis. He was transferred from Birmingham to Nottingham Forest in 1979 where the legendary Brian Clough was the manager.
Thirty years later and soccer players are transferred for that amount [...]

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Win a Real Madrid T-Shirt

June 13, 2009

I really enjoy seeking out new soccer t-shirts, and thanks to Objectivo, you can get your hands on one. Objectivo provide unique soccer t-shirts that you can’t find anywhere else.

As an Englishman I’m proud to wear the three lions so I ordered the t-shirt. However, what I received was the t-shirt you see on the [...]

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Five Soccer Gift Ideas for Father’s Day

June 11, 2009

With the European Soccer Leagues finishing just a couple of weeks ago, and the MLS just several weeks old, there are plenty of gift ideas you can get Dad for this Father’s day. If your Dad, or you know of a Dad who is soccer crazy, then he’s sure to appreciate something from this selection:

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Youth Soccer Coaching and Technique

May 20, 2009

I was watching a video a few weeks ago where Ronaldinho was being interviewed and he said that he loves the feeling of having a ball at his feet. When he’s relaxing with his friends and family, he needs to feel the ball. This type of connection can be very rare. I imagine only the [...]

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Soccer Coaching: It’s for the Kids

May 19, 2009

The above statement seems so simple to say, but how many of us truly contemplate how our words and actions now, could make the difference in the life of a young man?
During the past few weeks I’ve had to make one of the most difficult decisions of my relatively short coaching career, which came shortly [...]

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US MNT vs Trinidad & Tobago

April 3, 2009

I had the great fortune of being able to go to see the US MNT vs Trinidad & Tobago World Cup Qualifying game on Wednesday night. It was a great night of soccer which was enjoyed by fans young and old alike which was great to see. Young soccer fans and players are the future [...]

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Competition in Youth Soccer: Part 2

February 15, 2009

Interestingly enough, after my last article about Competition in Youth Soccer: Part 1, my U9 Boys played lots of indoor games and did okay (we played parity). I tend to use indoor soccer as a chance for the kids to just play. The indoor game is a high intensity, all out action packed 10 minute [...]

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