Just added to the World of Soccer website - Developing The Player
In this new DVD from The Football Associaion and Soccer Learning Systems, we will look at how to develop a program which will support the long term development of your players using a 4 corner model.
Includes coaching sessions to improve players in key technical aspects of the game. These sessions include: Creating Space, Passing, Ball Control, Running With The Ball, Dribbling, Turning, Shooting/Finishing, Heading, Goalkeeping and Defending. Each activity uses a technique practice, a Skill practice and a Small Sided game.Click here for Developing The PlayerQuick Links...
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Welcome to Edition #22 of the World of Soccer Newsletter.
In the April World of soccer newsletter we are making some claims that the United States and Canada may not be behind some European countries, including the UK In development programs for our youngest players. And this may be reflected in the World Cup results in future years – particularly in the United States.
In the Boot Room we take a semi-serious look at All-Star Games and testimonial Matches – including the game played for Stanley Matthews over 40 years ago.
Soccer scholarships raises its ugly head. In many ways college scholarships drive the development of teenage players in the United States and Canada but there is a darker side to all of this.
In our practice section instead of presenting games and activities this month, we look at the ingredients we need to factor into a practice session to make it enjoyable and purposeful for the players.
Hope you enjoy and please let us know your comments – negative and positive.Tony Waiters
Are we at a disadvantage? Don't you believe it!
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For many years soccer in America and Canada has been at an enormous disadvantage when compared to the rest of the world.
Why? Simply because it was not Numero Uno in the sports pecking order - not by a mile. For long enough there was little soccer culture, next to nothing on TV and professional leagues came and went. That is quickly changing. Soccer is now part of mainstream life in North America; there is "all-you-can-eat" soccer on TV from around the world; Major League Soccer is building; and with it comes home-grown heroes. Full Story
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Soccer scholarship chase: fact & fiction
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A few years ago I was involved in presenting a coaching clinic at the WAGS Tournament (in the Washington DC area). It is probably the most prestigious female tournament in the United States.
We were up bright and early arranging the coaching clinic area with banners, flags, erecting small-sided goals and marking the practice areas for the coaches' clinic later that day. Not a player was to be seen as the games were not to start until 9.00 a.m., but there was one lady pacing up and down chain smoking. I got talking to her and asked what she was doing here so early. She told me her daughter was playing a 10.30 a.m. game and this was her (daughter's) big chance to show her abilities in front of the many college coaches who attend the WAGS tournament each year. She was obviously under great stress and not having seen much of that kind of situation first-hand it made a lasting impression on me.
As a bona fide alumnus in the 70’s of the original Boot Room at the mighty Liverpool Football Club, in each newsletter we will include one article from today's World of Soccer Boot Room. I think you will find these articles pretty informative, but more importantly, you will have a chuckle. Hey! If you don’t think that’s important, go sit in your closet for two hours and see how much fun that is.
This month's Article is called: The All-Star Game! Time well Wasted? Or a Waste of Time?
This month in our Practice Section instead of presenting games and activities, we look at the ingredients we need to factor into a practice session to make it enjoyable and purposeful for the players.
