The English Football Association has launched a major educational campaign called ‘Respect’ designed to help parents and coaches be more supportive of their children, referees, and the youth game in general. It’s fantastic.
Entries Tagged ‘soccer’
Some History of Soccer Jersey Numbers
Have you ever wondered if there was any significance to soccer jersey numbers? Thanks to this in depth history over at 3rd Degree, now you’ll know!
Some Soccer New Year’s Resolutions
It wouldn’t be New Year’s Day without some resolutions, so SoccerDad joins in with some soccer related resolutions of his own.
A Wartime Soccer Christmas Story
We all recall from history classes the role that holidays can play in the outbreak of spontaneous, albeit temporary, truces between armies. Here is a story about soccer during WWI and the role it played in a spontaneous truce between German and Allied forces on Christmas Day 1914.
Berry Bright Cleats
Nike just released a limited edition version of their Mercurial Vapor IV cleat in bright pink – called the Berry. BRIGHT!
Sacking Soccer Coaches
High school football has always enjoyed a huge following and community support. However, as some soccer programs have achieved success under the guidance of determined coaches, the two programs and supporters often collide and conflict. Can they both just get along?
Shout Out for Columbia Women’s Soccer
Columbia’s women’s soccer team has taken a young girl under their wing who suffers from a life threatening genetic disorder. What started out as a simple ‘meet and greet’ with the players at practice has grown into something much more impacting not only the young girl but the rest of the team as well.
#3 UNC Women take on #10 Duke on FSC
The NSCAA Game of the Week on Fox Soccer Channel will feature the #3 UNC Tar Heel Women taking on #10 Duke in Durham at Koskinen Stadium. The match will be played Thursday, October 2nd, starting at 8PM Eastern. So if you coach a competitive girls team, this might be a good match to recommend [...]
Funny Soccer Tweets
I’ve been using social networking sites more and more, and finding some rather funny stuff. I use a great Twitter client called TweetDeck, which allows you to search the public timeline for certain keywords so you can monitor tweets with certain words. Very cool. Well, I had to share a rather funny tweet that scrolled [...]
24 Levels Of Football
I knew England had a number of soccer leagues in a hierarchical structure where teams could be promoted and relegated between them. But I never knew it was made up of 24 levels, 140 leagues, 480 divisions, and over 7000 clubs.
If England can manage to promote and relegate teams within 24 levels, why can’t we [...]
Lightning And Trees Don’t Mix!
10 people were struck by lightning at a soccer match yesterday. Thankfully it looks like everyone will be OK, though some injuries were serious. The spectators unfortunately took shelter under a tree when the storm came through. I’ve had trees on my property take direct hits by lightning and they’ve had the bark plus large [...]
Guerrilla Soccer Shots
OK, while I wouldn’t advocate shooting a soccer ball into an open police van, some of the shots this guy makes are pretty impressive, even if a couple might be fake – others sure look legit. And it is pretty funny watching the bewildered police chase him down the street. Cleary Nike has a hand [...]
Reason #367 Not To Heckle Referees
They may start drinking.
I know, I know – I shouldn’t joke around because if a drunk ref showed up at my kid’s match I’d be a bit upset. But still, I found it hilarious the kids (at least they look like older kids) continued to [...]
Soccer Poetry
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 just [...]
How Accurate Is Ball Flight Technology?
The use of technology in soccer for things like goal line calls, offside, and more has always been experimental, and even then has been controversial. While arguing over a referee’s call is often a soccer fan’s favorite pastime, few fans or officials support its use in the beautiful game. However, more often than not the debate is about technology’s impact on the flow of the game, not accuracy. Yet as technology is evaluated for use in soccer, we cannot overlook the fact the technology is imperfect and subject to errors.
