Does your team play a pressure defense in small sided 8v8 matches, and if not, why?
Entries Tagged ‘youth-soccer’
Helping Research Youth Soccer Coaching
Participate in a short survey to help a research study into youth soccer coaching.
How To Deal With Rough Play
The ZenMaster shares some tips on how teams can handle dirty play and react to it in ways to counter it and evne take advantage of it.
Sarcasm Can’t Hide Inappropriate Coaching
Let’s take a closer look at Coach Kinahan’s email. Clearly it was overly sarcastic, but once you get past the wit and sarcasm, what does it really say about him as a coach? is this really someone you want your kids playing for?
Beware The Green Death!
The coach of a new team of six and seven year old girls decided now was not the time to be coddling youth players and told his new U8 parents what he really thought about competition. In the end , it got him fired.
SoccerDad’s Weekend Reading – Vol 1 Issue 1
SoccerDad shares some Youth Soccer articles for your weekend reading enjoyment – when you aren’t out On The Pitch, of course.
Sure Sign Of Lots Of Cancellations
By the looks of this, I’m thinking a whole lot of matches across Region III won’t be played this weekend
Differences In How Boys And Girls Retaliate
An experienced referee has some interesting observations about how older players may retaliate in different ways depending on their gender and what to look for.
Be DOC For A Day – How Would You Respond?
The parents of a U10 player want their child to only be playing striker, and emailed their DOC to complain. How you you respond to such a request for such a young player?
Kick Like A Girl – A Documentary
When an undefeated girls soccer team called The Mighty Cheetahs goes looking for stronger competition, they find it in the boys division of their soccer league. Their coach, who happened to be in film school at the time, decided it would make a compelling story for a documentary and the result is ‘Kick Like A Girl’, a documentary due to be released this summer.
Is Your Youth Soccer Team Professional?
The smallest gestures and acts by a youth soccer team can be the difference between a good team and a great team.
Ignorance Is Ruining America, Not Soccer
People rant about soccer all the time, but every once in a while, someone makes claims so outlandish, you can’t let it go by. Did you know youth soccer was ruing America? And here all this time I thought it was fast food.
