Love-Based Soccer Is Changing The Odds

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All soccer experts who say pain is the greatest motivator have forgotten the power of love. People will scale mountains with luggage on their backs, swim upstream in a creek full of crocodiles, go into a hurricane and battle against armies and unbeatable odds to fulfil the emotion in us to love and be loved. [...]

Soccer Lessons and The Silver Spoon

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Let’s start today’s post with a little musical. A few verses from one of my favorite songs, “Cats in the Cradle”, by Cat Stevens. My child arrive just the other day He came to the world in the usual way But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay He learned to walk while [...]

Soccrastination Is Not A Word, But It Does Exist

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Soccrastination (soc-kras-tuh-ney-shuhn) is the deferment of soccer to a later time, often a mechanism for coping with fear or self-doubt. Don’t Google the word, it doesn’t exist, it’s one of my creations. If you’ve been playing soccer for a while, you know the pain of soccrastination. You know how ugly soccrastination can be. Soccrastination disrupts [...]

Youth Soccer: Stop Feeding The Incompetent Beast

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The good ol soccer coach, gotta love em. Failed player trying his hand at coaching, perhaps. Superstar wanting to give back to the game, maybe. Volunteered parent with no idea but with the best intention, we hope. What makes a youth coach great? Ask the question amongst the “so called” experts and you will get [...]

Shame and Self Respect, A Chance To Re-Invent Yourself

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It’s been 5 years since retirement. Where does time go? One thing I’ve noticed is that I’m starting to put on the kilos. You know, around the waist, the love handles, carrying the spare tyre. This transformation leads me to an emotion that sometimes plagues me, like the leaking tap that no matter how hard [...]