Jenn over at Mommy Needs Coffee adds a new word to the soccer lexicon: De-Soccerify:
Soccer Saturday. I must admit that I am not one of those super Alpha Moms that gets overly into the games, freaks out at a loss and pushes my kid to WIN WIN WIN. Face it. After 9 years of watching [...]
We’re having a rather interesting debate with some parents in our league over how we handle the development of referees. It raises a number of interesting issues so I thought I’d share them with you all and see what you thought with our Question of the Week:
How Should Referee Development Be Handled?
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This week’s question revolves around leagues which allow players to play on a travel team and a recreational team during the same season. Our league allows it and so far it’s been a good experience for the kids. They get to do this whole new ‘travel’ thing when they hit U10, but can also still [...]
This is for all the coaches out there. Many of us cart around sports bags filled with a variety of things to practices, matches, pickup games, etc. Well, I know I do. Just off the top of my head I know I have the following in there:
Cleats, first aid kit, sleeve of water cups, cones, [...]
This weeks question is a fairly simple one. Before every match, teams warm up with some kind of drills and hopefully stretching. Assuming all teams stretch (you DO stretch right?), what do you do for pre-game warm-ups? I’ve seen teams do a number of things including:
Shots on goal (stationary or moving balls)
Passing in a large [...]
I held off the Question of the Week for a day so I could get my previous post up first – The Soccer Rule Primer for Parents.
So the Question of the Week:
What confuses your new parents the most about soccer?
Most people probably would say ‘offsides’, but not always, especially at the younger age levels [...]
This week’s question deals with gender separation of soccer teams. Many recreational leagues across the country have coed teams, though the reasons for this can vary. Our league has all coed teams at the recreational level and only when players move to Challenge (travel) teams do they split up into boys teams and girls teams. [...]
I’m going to start up a new regular feature here at On The Pitch – a Question of the Week (QOTW). Based on whatever might be gripping the soccer world or my own feeble brain at any given moment, I’ll try to use the QOTW to stimulate some debate and commentary among soccer fans. I’ll [...]
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