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MLS beginning to mimic NASL with talent imbalance, rapid expansion |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 18 Aug 2010
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Pele isn't dancing at Studio 54. The Cosmos aren't the night-life
kings of New York. But suddenly pro soccer is starting to look a lot
like 1977, with Major League Soccer morphing into the NASL.
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Real Salt Lake has attack mentality regardless of location....hear, hear! |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 18 Aug 2010
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SANDY — The importance of scoring the first goal in soccer can't be
overstated enough. It is without a doubt the most important stat in
soccer.
Through this weekend's slate of MLS games,
the combined record of teams scoring first is a staggering 106-8-29. The
first goal all but guarantees a team at least a tie.
The first goal usually changes the entire
dynamic of the game, with one team now forced to chase. Even for the
best teams, a one-goal deficit is too much to overcome..
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Santos’s style a revolving door |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 18 Aug 2010
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Brazil national team coach Mano Menezes is basing the Selecao’s tactics
on the setup of Santos FC, which recently won the Copa Brasil and
Paulista state titles. Click here to read more
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The things they say… Franz Beckenbauer |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 16 Aug 2010
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After five decades as the leading personality at Bayern, Franz
Beckenbauer stepped down as club president and supervisory board
chairman in November 2009. It is the end of an era the like of which
will never be seen again, as Beckenbauer spent more than 50 years as
player, coach or official with his home-town club. He has never been
short of a witticism or ready quip either, so fcbayern.de presents a selection of the Kaiser’s most celebrated quotes. Click here to read more
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‘Bayern Munich’s greatest-ever personality’ |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 16 Aug 2010
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12.08.2010
What would Bayern be without Franz Beckenbauer?
There would certainly be less silverware in the trophy cabinet. The
Allianz Arena would probably not have been built. The likes of Robben
and Ribéry might well never have come to the club. Although these are
matters for conjecture, the significance of the 64-year-old’s
contribution to Germany’s most successful club is hard to express in
mere trophies and statistics. “Franz Beckenbauer is far and away the
greatest personality Bayern Munich has ever had in its ranks,”
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge summarised, “he has shaped Bayern’s history like
no other.”
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Brandi Chastain's testimonial soccer game - Oct. 2nd, at Buck Shaw Stadium |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 13 Aug 2010
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Maybe Bradley Should Make the First Move |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 11 Aug 2010
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The timing could not have been better for Bob Bradley, who is coaching
the United States soccer team on Tuesday with no guarantee there will be
many more games for him at the end of his four-year contract. Click here to read more
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Johan Cruyff, innovator and renaissance man |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 10 Aug 2010
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What can one say… It’s like preaching for the converted on this blog,
but come on… He was the best ever! Pele was a great athlete.
Individually extremely good, like Maradona, but none was so important
for the game as JC was. Obviously, his individual skills are beyond
repute. His speed, his vision, his command over the ball with both the
right and left foot, his goalscoring abilities (he was even a very good
header of the ball)… but above all, his leadership and his innovative
vision of the game… Most people have all those fantastic goals and
actions etched in their minds. Mymum, God bless her soul, was pretty
demented when she was old but she could still elaborate on his greatest
achievements… The ADO goal, the come-back lob against Haarlem, the
flying volley at Barcelona, the outside left inswinger against Argentina
at the WC74, the 2-0 against Brazil, the header in the CL finals
against Inter Milan…click here to read more
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What went wrong with Freddy Adu? |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 08 Aug 2010
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A couple of years before YouTube, when watching a video on one's computer was a new experience, a highlight clip of Freddy Adu hit the Internet and presented a fuzzy image of what looked like a little Pele
in a U.S. youth national team jersey delightfully tricking his way past
opponents and scoring goals. Fast-forward eight years: the player who
became a millionaire at age 13 has left us wondering what went wrong. Click here to read more
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"money would not hold anyone back, parents couldn’t coach - be on the board, kids at right level" |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 07 Aug 2010
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He is brash.
And he is passionate about soccer.
Los
Angeles Futbol Club’s president Don Sheppard entered the world of youth
soccer in 2002. Six years later, he was watching his top team play in
the national final of the prestigious Development Academy.
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Why are two holding midfielders so crucial in the modern game? |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 05 Aug 2010
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US Youth Soccer accuses US Club Soccer of "discriminatory" policies of new leagues |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 04 Aug 2010
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Isn't this a hoot....? Atletico Santa Rosa, Manteca FC, Sonoma County Sol and others cannot join the USYSA National Tournament - the CYSA State Cup - but.........
By Tom Myrick
The United States Youth Soccer Association has issued a formal
complaint to US Club Soccer, claiming that specific club organizations
are enacting “discriminatory” policies that “deny players, coaches,
teams, and clubs the right to participate in US Youth Soccer’s and other
Federation Organization Member programs.”
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Rethinking Division-2 Pro Soccer in North America – Part 1 - 4 |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 02 Aug 2010
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This is the first of a 4-part article looking at the future of Division-2 soccer in North America. Click here to read more
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U.S. soccer could use a new system for college-age players |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 02 Aug 2010
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Four of the 23 players on the U.S. soccer team that captivated the
nation's attention last month at the World Cup played four years of
college soccer, and as the United States attempts to cultivate
world-class players by adopting a model of development popular in other
countries -- with professional affiliations starting before a player
reaches voting age -- college soccer players soon could be left out of
the national team equation altogether.
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Manchester United's latest fledglings getting ready to fly |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 02 Aug 2010
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A new batch of young talent is being primed by Sir Alex Ferguson to make a big impact in the coming season...Click here to read more
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How Japan created a successful league |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 02 Aug 2010
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18 July ~ Imagine the scenario. England didn’t lose 4-1 to
Germany at the World Cup – they were agonisingly defeated on penalties.
In front of the assembled press Steven Gerrard says: "We're heartbroken
but we want to thank the fans here and at home. Please keep supporting
us, please keep coming to England's games and please keep supporting the
English league." If you're Japanese you don't need to imagine this,
because this is exactly what Makoto Hasebe, captain of the Japan team
(and who plays his club football at Wolfsburg), did after their defeat
to Paraguay. Now, after an eight-week mid-season break, the J-League
returns and with it one of the unalloyed success stories of world
football. Click here to read more
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U.S. soccer going abroad to find talent |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 02 Aug 2010
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After the U.S. lost to Ghana in the World Cup round of 16, did you catch
yourself looking over the ages of the U.S. team's players and wondering
who'll be past their primes for the 2014 edition of the tournament? Or
who'll even make it to Brazil? Click here to read more
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Johan Cruyff, the Oracle speaks! |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 30 Jul 2010
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Okay then, the big man has turned 60… Let’s do some more Cruyffian
stuff… Ol’ Goose already published some stuff on JC during the WC2006
(which actually stopped me from posting this particular post) but let’s
look at some more good stuff. Feel free to share your private
memories/quotes in the thread…
Johan Cruyff (JC in Holland, El Salvador in Spain) is worldfamous for
his football-skills, coaching-antics and – recently- his charity-work.
But apart from that, the Dutch love the man for his use of the language
as well and his truly offbeat, counter-intuitive intelligence and
remarks.
While a player, he was sometimes unfathomable on and off the pitch,
and since he is regularly on TV with football-analysis (although he has a
strong opinion about everything; they could really ask him to analyse
any subject and he’d be happy to oblige) he has become a subject for
liguists and social-anthropolists at the same time.
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"Two of the big issues are coaching education and parent education" |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 28 Jul 2010
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"the paucity of the production line which has to supply England" |
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Category:
Coaches Education
on 28 Jul 2010
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Fabio Capello has been castigated for his absence at England's exit from
the European Under-19 Championships but how much punishment can a man
who has grown up with certain basic football qualities, like controlling
and passing the ball in reasonably coherent fashion, take in one long
summer of discontent?
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