Tag Archives: soccer
Is Soccer Fitness needed for Team Success?
The majority of the population, including the soccer community would argue yes. So the question still stands, is soccer fitness required for soccer success?
Does anybody know?
Scientists have conducted a few experiments to try and solve the puzzle. Researchers and sports scientists conducted an experiment which involved 320 male players from 3 different leagues from England.
Their [...]
101 Ways To Improve your Soccer
Be Respectful: Whether good, bad or indifferent, respect is paramount. At the end of the day we’re humans first and foremost.
Be Patient: Unlike the music industry or Hollywood where you can shoot to stardom overnight, soccer is a journey and requires discipline and dedication.
Be Selfish: It does sound harsh but it’s always about the “You [...]
Soccer Coaches, What Are You Selling?
Perfect does not exist. Being perfect is not sustainable and who is perfect anyway?
In the last post we discussed “fail and fail often.” The message was to learn from what’s working. In a nutshell, modify and adjust sessions according to what’s working. Forget about learning from your mistakes for one moment.
If you’re a coach and [...]
Love-Based Soccer Is Changing The Odds
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. [...]
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 your goals; crushes [...]