Tag Archives: football advice
Soccer, Stars and a Little Secret
Imagine…by the end of this post, like magic, you will become a better soccer player. Just by simply reading this page you have the potential to become a better player star because you’ve stumbled onto a little secret. Can you guess the secret? Read the opening sentence again. Any ideas? Don’t despair if you can’t [...]
Soccrastination Is Not A Word, But It Does Exist
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
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
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 [...]
Soccer Advice: Knocked Down, But Never Out
If I asked you where heaven was, most of you would point to the sky. When I was a young boy, I imagined God sitting on some throne in the clouds watching down on us, boy, how times have changed. No, I haven’t lost faith, I believe. As soccer players, coaches and parents, belief is [...]