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Thoughts on Youth Soccer from a Soccer Dad, Fan, Coach and Administrator

Entries for July, 2008

Coming To A Touchline Near You

Tweet Can’t resist posting. I really should, but I can’t. Keep an eye out five years form now – you never know who might show up on the parent sideline!

Time To Get Serious

Tweet As the 2008/2009 season approaches, I’ve been spending a fair amount of time thinking about how to approach the season for my U12 Girls team. We had almost all of our players return, so Tales From The Lunachick Fringe will continue, but now it’s time to get serious.

AYSO Games in Hawaii

Tweet For those of you who have children that participate on USYSA or US Club teams, it can be easy to forget there are other national soccer associations out there. The AYSO is a less competitive oriented program, but that doesn’t mean they are just grassroots and local. They’re holding their National Games in Hawaii […]

Player Evaluations – Worth The Effort?

Tweet Our league recently put together a player evaluation form for our select players to try and give parents some additional feedback about how their players were doing. It’s designed to provide a comprehensive look at how a player is progressing and what they need to focus on. Yet the reaction from our coaches so […]

About That Offseason…

Tweet It’s so quiet. Is everyone enjoying their offseason? Mine was kind of short – optional practices are starting up in a week or so. It’s going to be HOT. But what are you all up to? As the next season approaches, I wanted to reach out to you all and see what you’d like […]

Soccer Poetry

Tweet It never ceases to amaze me what you can find on the Internet… Would you believe a site full of poems about soccer/football? 10,000+ poems? Football Poets has this plus new poems submitted almost every day. There are a lot of Euro 2008 submissions in the new section. Here’s one that ends thusly: Not […]

Colorful, Bold, Iridescent Cleats?

Tweet A while back I put up an article about some colorful cleats one of my players had gotten and mentioned ‘Iridescent’ and ‘Cleats’ in the article. Well that post gets tons of hit from Google searching for those keywords. But bold colorful cleats are not that common. Kelme had the Chameleon. Adidas PowerSwerve cleats […]