Tweet Here’s a neat idea that we’ve started to use before the championship matches of our league’s end of season tournament. We do a World Cup style ‘walkout’ with both teams. The teams lineup on the bench side of the field at midfield behind the ARs. The center then leads both lines, walking about 2/3rds […]
Entries for May, 2007
Youth Keeper Killed By Portable Goal
Tweet A 10 year old soccer player died Monday evening during a U11 scrimmage when the portable goal behind him fell over and struck him in the head and neck: A young soccer player died during a scrimmage Monday evening in Winchester. Investigators said 10-year-old Hayden Barnes Ellias was playing goalkeeper for the Winchester United […]
You Know The Soccer Season Is Over…
Tweet When the coach’s yard finally gets mowed. Apologies to my neighbors! 🙂
¿Cómo dices fútbol?
Tweet Ever wondered how you say soccer in [insert your favorite second language here]? The Global Game can tell you and you can get the T-Shirt to prove it. H/T LDSM.
Gracie
Tweet How timely. Like I noted below, our league is having a spirited debate about coed vs gender split teams for our younger Recreational teams. Plenty more to come on that. However, one theme that comes up often is the mental impact on the girls of playing with the boys and how the boys treat […]
Asking What The Parents Think
Tweet We recently had a lively debate on our coach’s mailing list about coed vs gender split divisions in Recreational soccer for U10 in our league. Much more on that later. The upshot is, we’re going to present a small survey to our parents during Fall season registration to gauge parent opinion on the topic […]
Divers – Get Some Nuts
Tweet I’m sure everyone has seen this by now, but just in case. Very funny. I can honestly say I never imagined I’d see Mr T and soccer at the same time. It makes my brain hurt. HatTip – The News Blog.
Reader Survey
Tweet This is a very small blog, so we don’t exactly rake in big bucks from the few advertisements we get. But one thing that helps advertisers know the readership of a blog and what their ad dollar is going for is a readership survey. BlogAds is running their fourth annual readership survey, so if […]
Youth Practice Videos
Tweet There’s a new site starting up with the aim to be a clearing house for youth soccer practice videos. Using Magnify.net, Jeff Geiser has setup a new site called YouthPractice.com where people can view and share practice videos. It’s an interesting concept: If you google soccer practice drills you get no shortage of web […]
Let The Season End And The Blogging Begin
Tweet I always find it ironic that the time I do the least blogging about youth soccer is during our actual soccer season! Things were really hectic these past few weeks, so I apologize for the lack of posts. If you look through the archives, it’s not uncommon for April and May to be pretty […]
