Cooling Down Phase for Soccer Training - A Coach's Perspective and Focal Point
...ctices need to incorporate warm up as well as cool down. Apart from the physiology of increasing strength through stretching regimes. This helps the team members understand their bodies and it's needs.
It is also a great time for the coaches to get feed back on the events. This gets the team to contribute to their immediate experiences, whether is be a competition or practice. It helps everybody paint a mental picture of their collective accomplishments.
When a group of individuals gets together and focuses on something other than the immediate task at hand then the task becomes another routine with...more
Goal Setting: Pops Proves Its Never Too Late
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Pops first set the goal in high school, but when he graduated he thought he wasnt mature enough to pursue it so he enlisted in the U.S. Army.
He dreamed about it as a member of the 82nd Airborne as he became an Army Ranger. Later, in the first Gulf war, he thought about his goal again, as he also did during his service in the Kosovo conflict. For 20 years, through his Army career, a war, marriage and six children, Pops kept the dream and the goal alive.
Never mind that he was considered far too old to pursue his dream, Pops just couldnt let go.
When he retired from the Army at 39, he decided it was finally time to do something about the goal hed set so many years before. He moved his family to Columbia, South Carolina and e...more
The Simple guide to Soccer
...Soccer is sport played around the world. Many people are new to the sport as it gains popularity and they may not understand the rules. Some parts of soccer can be confusing, so learning the basics can really help anyone who is trying to understand what is going on. The following is a short tutorial on the basics of soccer.
The objective of soccer is to score more goals than the opposing team. Each team consists of eleven players. Players can score by moving the ball into the goal net....more
A Bit of Football history for Your Party
...english monarchs, including Edward II and Henry VI, forbade the game because it took interest away from the military sport of archery.
In 1920, the american Professional football Association was formed; one year later it was reorganized and in 1922 was renamed the National football league. fifty years after the inception of the first pro football association, combined sixteen NFL teams with ten AFL teams to comprise one...more
