Tweet I recently received a sample of an interesting instructional product to help soccer coaches run drills in practice. While most ‘how to coach soccer’ products are books or DVDs with full illustrations and text, the CoachDeck for soccer is just that. A deck of cards, each with a different drill, broken up into four […]
Entries for August, 2007
TeamSnap – Manage Your Sports Team Online
Tweet Managing a youth sports team can be quite a daunting task these days. In youth soccer there can be many different forms to fill out, payments that need to be collected, snack schedules to create, tracking who can make it to various team events (practices, matches, tournaments, parties, etc), and much more. In our […]
Life After Soccer
Tweet For many of us – youth soccer is a way of life. I mean that in the best way possible, though a few parents do lose perspective. If your kids enjoy the sport and work hard at it, you’ll find yourself spending countless hours on the sidelines in heat, wind, rain, and cold, driving […]
Anchoring The Soccer Goal Anchors
Tweet In the five short years our local league has existed, one of the stranger challenges we’ve faced is trying to keep our soccer goals anchored. Soccer goals can tip forward, and can severely injure or even kill players when the crossbar falls to the ground. The worst are the small 6′ x 4′ goals […]
The Lunachick Fringe
I was talking with one of the ‘Lunachick’ dads the other day about the new dynamic we’d have on the parent sideline this year compared to years past in Recreation. He chuckled and said “Oh yeah – I have it all figured out – we’re going to call the Lunachick parents the ‘Lunachick Fringe'”
Fixing Up Goals Is A Pain In The…
Tweet Our league has 32 soccer goals at our complex. Half are little 6’x4′ goals for the U5/U6 teams. The rest vary from 12′ wide to 24′ wide for the older kids. When they were originally put together, lets just say attention to detail was not a factor. The nets were cable tied to the […]
Youth Soccer = 123,000 ER Visits A Year
Tweet Don’t you love sensationalist headlines, even when they’re technically accurate? I could have made it even worse talking about 16 million ER visits … over a 13 year period. 🙂 I recently stumbled across an article talking about a recent study of injury rates for youth soccer players and it had some interesting tidbits. […]
When Is It TOO Hot?
Tweet In light of the record temperatures many parts of the country are seeing, it brings up a question. Most leagues will leave the cancellation of practices up to individual coaches, except in the case of severe weather (lightning, snow/ice, etc.) where the league will cancel everything. But is there a point where it’s too […]
Beat The Heat – Stay Hydrated!
Tweet You just sort of expect that the week you officially start soccer practices – it’ll be the hottest week of the year, and possibly on record. With our teams starting practice on Monday, we’ve set a new high temperature Monday, Tuesday, and Today, with temperatures of 99 or higher. With extremely high temperatures forecast […]
The Soccer Project – A Documentary
Tweet Intriguing. Four soccer players, mostly from Duke University’s Documentary Studies program, are setting out on an adventure across the globe to create a documentary about soccer: Four soccer-playing filmmakers abandon jobs, renew passports, trade novels for Lonely Planets, and travel the world in search of pickup games: impromptu scenes that arise anywhere, between anyone. […]
Teach a Man to Ref
Tweet Over at the NC Soccer Forum, LDSM posted an interesting article about a teenage referee who has founded a scholarship program to help underprivileged kids get certified to referee soccer matches: Even at 13-years-old, David Mulcahy thought as much about others as he did himself. When he became a soccer referee after years of […]
Another Youth Soccer Blogger
Tweet I’ve really enjoyed blogging about youth soccer these past few years, but it has been a lonely existence. I’ve found a few blogs by Soccer Moms and sporadic posts from youth soccer coaches on personal blogs, etc. However, I never found anyone else blogging about youth soccer most of the time, or even some […]
Setanta Sports on DISH Network – Finally
Tweet Rejoice DISH Network customers! You can finally get Setanta Sports on DISH Network – Channel 406. Here’s the announcement: NEW YORK and ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ — Just in time for the English Premiership season opener and the Rugby World Cup 2007, Setanta Sports, the leading sports broadcasting network dedicated to international soccer […]
When Parents Go Mental
Tweet I saw this in the NY Times today and was just speechless – parents sending their kids to sports psychologists: The idea that mental coaching can help the youngest athletes has pervaded the upper reaches of the country’s zealous youth sports culture. In the pursuit of college scholarships and top spots on premier travel […]
Fix The Goals Day
Tweet As the Fall 2007 season fast approaches for our soccer league, we’ve been hard at work getting things ready to go. This includes finalizing team rosters, setting practice schedules, finalizing the field layouts (we flip fields around annually to help with wear on the fields), and much more. This past Saturday was ‘Fix The […]
