Posted on Sunday, 17th May 2009 by admin
The English Football Association has surprised all of us by awarding central contracts to 17 women players in a bid to boost the national team’s hope of success. A further three are likely to be added to the roster and, with salaries of £16,000 each, the FA is committing a total of £1.28m to the [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 14th May 2009 by admin
On June 6, 48 teams from the rural district of Soroti, in north-east Uganda will compete in a week-long football tournament, which will be held in Katine, where development work is being carried out by the African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref).
The sub-county of Katine is one of seven in the Soroti district [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 12th May 2009 by admin
On match day mornings I get as nervous as the players. I usually grab a coffee and eat a banana – I spend the rest of my time hurrying my boys along making sure they eat properly.
I find your mouth gets dry and you need water to hydrate you, just like the players – plus [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 10th May 2009 by admin
Getting young players to juggle with the ball is a great way of getting them used to just kicking and controlling the ball and gives them a headstart when they practice drills and exercise that involve ball control.
Showing them a simple way to juggle and how they start off doing it will help them to [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 9th May 2009 by admin
In my Soccer Coach Weekly publication issue 105 I wrote about how you should go about rewarding your players at the end of the season. One of my readers Guy in New Zealand wrote to me to tell me about how he plans the medals for the end of the season.
He gives specific medals to [...]
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Posted on Monday, 4th May 2009 by admin
I was at an U17s game this weekend and boy the air was blue. Everyone was shouting and it seemed to me no one was having a particularly good time.
At half time the coach I was watching just shouted at his players. I cannot believe anyone benefits from actions like this. Humiliating players in front [...]
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Posted on Friday, 1st May 2009 by admin
Okay I’ve seen some training sessions in my time but the coach of the Bahrain national team has got one of the craziest.
Shot saving is of course important and you need a good goalkeeper with excellent reflexes at all levels of the game. Coaching reflex saves often involves the goalkeeper moving in a coned of [...]
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