Category Archives for "Culture"
July 15, 2019
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Reliability In Youth Sports
If you think coaches are not paying attention in youth sports, don’t. They are. Things like being reliable matter. If you think I’m talking about just consistently hitting a crispy seam pass through defenders, I’m not. I’m talking about a players ability to make an honor commitments. Seemingly little things matter: being late to practice […]
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July 1, 2019
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Character Matters in Athlete Selection
Skills, fitness, physicality… It’s all important. And it’s often an athlete’s Character that helps them make the cut. Character matters.
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June 17, 2019
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Extra Benefits of Soccer – Networking
Soccer offers students many benefits as they mature through the development years, but benefits of soccer don’t stop there. In this episode, we explore how the game of soccer can connect us with 3.5 Billion fans around the world and create networking opportunities in situations far removed from the soccer field throughout life. Soccer is […]
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June 10, 2019
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Play Practice Play in Youth Soccer
If you haven’t heard it yet, there is a new training methodology in soccer town called Play, Practice, Play. It’s not really new. We’ve been doing it for more than a year now. But it may be new to you. I know it’s still new to many who are just coming into the sport and […]
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June 3, 2019
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Benefits of Watching Soccer
How eager would you be to allow a surgeon to cut you open and remove your gallbladder if that surgeon never watched a surgery before? Not very, right? You instinctively know that performing a physical skill is easier if you’ve watched someone else do it first. Likewise, if you want to learn to play music, it […]
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May 13, 2019
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5 Things True Soccer Insiders Know About the Game
In every group, there are the “insiders.’ If you’re a true soccer insider, you can often tell the difference pretty quickly. If you can’t tell the newbies from the insiders, chances are you’re one of the newbies. There is nothing wrong with being a newbie, of course. We’ve all worn that title at some point. […]
Continue readingOvercoming the Challenge of Letting Our Kids Go
All birds have to leave the nest or they will die. Our kids have to find their own lives too. They are going to leave. It’s not a matter of if they will leave. It’s a matter of when AND how well prepared will they be when they do. Letting our kids go is a challenge […]
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April 29, 2019
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Soccer Team and Players – The 12th Player
If I told you that a 13U or older soccer team has more than 11 players on the field during a game, you might question my knowledge of the game. You might think I’m trying to be clever by telling you that unless a referee issued a red card, there are always 22 players on […]
Continue readingMental Health in Soccer
Mental Health in Soccer runs deeper and more silent that most of us have given much thought to. In this episode, I share my thoughts and research after a discussion with a mental health nurse in a UK training camp, then I share three things that we can do as parents or as coaches to help our kids manage some mental health issues before they become issues.
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April 1, 2019
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Parent Engagement in Youth Sports
Youth Sport is bigger than any player. We do our best to let them go and let them play when they’re on the field. That’s a good thing. But coaches only get kids for at maximum, 2 or 3 hours at a time. Parent drive them around, pay for their access, eat and play with […]
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