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Soccer Kids, Show Me What You’ve Got
Defenders kicking at your ankles, elbows snapping back in your face. The grass resembles a battlefield and awaits your defeat. You take a deep breath, more like a sigh than an attempt to breathe. But you move forward, teeth clenched, one step at a time. You keep persisting and your instincts take over. The knees [...]
Youth Soccer and the Y2K Bug
It’s frustrating, it’s sad and it’s infuriating the way some soccer coaches become so manipulative. In their own delusional minds they believe kids, players, youngsters, whatever tickles your fancy are just pathetically stupid to spend their time, their efforts, life, career without their constant supervision. So why does this happen? Who gives these coaches the [...]
The Poker Game of Soccer
If soccer were a card game it would be Poker. In Poker you get dealt good hands, bad hands and mediocre hands. Does it matter? For those that haven’t played poker, you can win with any hand and also lose with any hand. It’s totally up to you how you play the hand you’ve been [...]
Cosmonauts, NASA and Love Based Soccer
Just finished reading an interesting article about space travel and NASA. Back in the 1960’s they discovered that astronauts couldn’t use pens to write in space. With no gravity, the ink didn’t seem to flow downwards. Along comes a man called Paul Fisher that designs a space pen. 1.5 million dollars (U.S) later and the [...]
Soccer is an Epic Battle Against Ourselves
What is the greatest battle a soccer player must fight? A better question might be what is your biggest battle? The biggest battle in soccer, whether you’re a seasoned veteran, youngster or teenager is the battle within yourself, the battle to remain true to yourself and your beliefs. When we talk about the battle within [...]