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Your Soccer Career Is In Your Hands, Not The Coaches
Unless you have been living under a rock, the January transfer window through up a curve ball in the form of Robbie Keane. Robbie Keane was sold back to Tottenham for a loss of 8 million pounds. Many Liverpool supporters (myself included) have been left scratching our heads in disbelief. Why buy a player for [...]
Soccer Performance- Are You The Big Fish In The Small Pond?
Soccer provides a platform of duality which makes it both challenging and amusing. The world we live in today is full of duality, you cannot escape it. You can’t have good without bad, you can’t have rich without poor and you definitely can’t have winning without losing. Soccer like any other sport has a positive [...]
David Beckham- When Money isn’t Everything
David Beckham, the England midfielder last night confirmed he wants to finish his career at the San Siro. Since arriving in Milan David Beckham has even exceeded his own ambitions by scoring 2 goals and setting up a handful of goals for his team mates. His initial goal was to have some playing time for [...]
Soccer Coaching-How To Coach Soccer In 3 Easy Steps
The bare necessities to coaching soccer is a pair of eyes and a mouth that speaks the same language as the players. Sounds pretty simple doesn’t it? Soccer coaches need to interact with the players by observing and giving the required feedback. Observational skills and feedback are the most important skills any coach could have to [...]
Warning To All Soccer Coaches-If You Can’t Diagnose, Don’t Prescribe.
Lets paint the picture and build up the scenario first. Imagine you have been having trouble with some aspect of your game. You decide to confront your soccer coach and ask him for some advice and help. After briefly listening to you, he offers to help and gives you advice. “You must train harder and run [...]