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Top 5 - Soccer Dribbling Moves 2008-04-05 01:22:00 Ah, the soccer dribble. The salt and pepper of the game, the move that makes fans go wild, club shirts sell and defenders cry. It's no wonder that some of the players that are considered today's best are great dribblers. Just look at the likes of Ronaldinho, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Zlatan Ibrahimovici or Lionel Messi. They all built their careers and image as spectacular soccer players on a few dribbling moves. Today, we'll cover some of the soccer dribbling moves that were branded by these players. Feel free to try and copy them :) Cruyff's Soccer
Dribbling Move This move, branded by Holland's superstar, Johan Cruyff is quite easy to reproduce but that doesn't mean it's less effective. Actually, it's one of the most effective moves to perform at the edge of the box, or inside it faking
How To - Step By Step Soccer Moves 2008-04-05 01:21:00 Ever wondered what makes great soccer moves actually great? Is it their quickness, is it the outstanding ball control that the dribbler needs to possess in order to pull them off, or is it simply seeing the look on the poor defender's face when he gets his ankles twisted by the move? I'll tell you what makes them great: it's the countless hours that those outstanding dribblers out there put in their practice that allow them to perform seemingly impossible moves with the ease of a rabbit hopping uphill. If you ever dreamt of being able to perform such great soccer moves, you'll have to work hard to get them. And you can do so with the help of the following step by step soccer moves guide. Step by Step Soccer
Moves - The Stepover and Double Stepover This move has an affinity for players na
Soccer Practice Drills 2008-04-05 01:20:00 Practice is the key to success in soccer and if you look at most of the top players in today's game, they're people who work hard for the skills they show on the pitch, often taking training to levels beyond the team's sessions. David Beckham said that he spent (and probably still spends) several hours per week beyond training, practicing his brilliant free kicks. Juninho Pernambucano, one of today's best long range snipers practices shots after hours, from various ranges. And don't think that Ronaldinho or Cristiano Ronaldo's superb dribbling skills were all obtained during team practice, they're also the result of long hours spent with the ball outside of the normal program. So if you're striving to better yourself and become a quality soccer player, it's mandatory that you practice us Read more:Soccer
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How To Warm Up For A Soccer Match 2008-04-05 01:14:00 How To Warm Up For A SoccerMatch
Are your stretching techniques in preparation for a soccer game right for you? There may be a better way for you to avoid injury. There are many ways to stretch before a soccer game for the purpose of loosening the muscles to avoid pain and injury during rigorous play. There seems to be a set of stretching techniques offered by the sports medicine community to condition the body for physical exertion. But are these techniques right for everyone? Having played and coached soccer for over thirty years now, I have witnessed all sorts of ways that amateur athletes go through stretching before a game and I have tried some myself at the urging of others. I have never continued with these stretching methods, however, because they caused a certain discomfort that
Studying the Soccer Game 2008-04-05 01:13:00 If you're struggling to become a better soccer player, the help you need could come from an unlikely place: from study and observation. Now, before you start scoffing about how you'll learn more by doing than by studying, think about it. If you never watch a game on TV, you'll never see all those drills and soccer techniques you do put into practice. If you never ask a question about certain techniques, you may be learning it the wrong way and you'd have no idea. If you enjoy doing something, you don't just do it. You read about it, talk about it, and drive your friends and family crazy with it, all in an effort to get better. Become a better soccer player sooner by becoming a dedicated student of the game. Here's how to do it. 1) Watch games on television. One of the best ways to learn Read more:Soccer
Animated Soccer Drills - Best Coaching Source 2008-04-05 01:12:00 There isn't a field out there nowadays that doesn't get its fresh tinge of technological advancement and soccer, or more specifically soccer training, is no different. More and more coaches, especially those working with youngsters, tend to get more in touch with technology and some of their most useful tools (although it's largely underused yet) are animated soccer drills. Let's take a look at how these work and try to decide if they're today's best coaching source or not. Advantages of Animated Soccer
Drills - Visual Memory When you simply tell a player to do, say some offensive soccer drills, explaining these drills will trigger his audio memory and rationing, allowing him to replicate what you just told him. This is by no means a wrong way of teaching the offensive soccer drills, but y Read more:Source
How to Learn Soccer Tricks 2008-04-05 01:11:00 Let's face it, even if you're not much of a soccer player, knowing how to handle a few soccer tricks can mean a world of difference in your friends circle. Improving on your soccer tricks and skills isn't just for impressing your friends and the ladies though. They can also get your match performance to a higher level, because they're surprising and effective. I can give you a lot of examples on that part: remember when Ronaldinho first started to perform his famous Elastico move? (flicking the ball with his outside of the foot to the left, then quickly cutting it with his inside) Nowadays, a defender that's facing Ronaldinho in a one versus one duel will surely be careful against this move, but when the Brazilian had just invented it, it was extremely surprising and he managed to create h Read more:Soccer
Fun Soccer Drills for Kids 2008-04-05 01:10:00 I know a lot of people think that working with grown-ups is a lot harder than working with children, because grown-ups already have a formed personality, they have their own experience with the game of soccer and each of them needs to be treated as an individual at all times. For me, soccer drills for young players are a lot harder to apply, because you don't have a lot of options to take in your relationship with them. With grown-ups, you can base your coaching on a close relationship with them, on severity, professionalism, honor and several other concepts that might or might not work well with a group (still, all these options might be viable). With kids on the other hand, you're basically stuck with providing them with a fun environment to play in. You can't be "hard" on a bunch of ki Read more:Soccer
Soccer Shooting Drills 2008-04-05 01:10:00 Goals are the salt and pepper of soccer and they can only be scored by either shooting, or heading the ball. Heading the ball is an unnatural process, whereas kicking the ball is quite a natural "need" that humans have, deep down. How many times have you walked on the street and instinctively kicked a leaf, or some small rock, just for the heck of it? Now, how many times have you walked on the street and started hitting your head against solid objects? I hope not a lot. So heading is a lot harder to train, because we have to fight against our own natural fear of hitting our head against an object. That's why soccer shooting drills are so much more diverse and common in training sessions. Let's take a look at the different types of shooting drills. -Soccer
Shooting Drills - Static Position
3 Best Ways to Improve Soccer Skills Individually 2008-04-05 01:09:00 If you're looking for ways to improve soccer skills individually, you've come to the right place. I know that soccer team practice sometimes just isn't enough if you want to become great. Just take a look at most of the great soccer players in activity. They always say that they spend a lot of hours off-pitch improving their soccer skills, which makes them so good in matches. But simply training after hours isn't enough, you need to train intelligently, after a rigorous program. Best Ways to ImproveSoccerSkills
- DVD Programs There's a lot of these babies around the Internet these days, so if you're planning on buying a DVD program for individual soccer practice, make sure it's a serious author that created it and it's not some lame compilation of soccer highlights with subtitles saying
Best Soccer Conditioning Drills 2008-04-05 01:08:00 Conditioning plays an increasingly more important role in today's soccer, so if you ever want to become a pro, you'd best start working on your fitness and endurance levels from early on. Unlike popular belief, soccer conditioning drills are not just short-term, in that you can't "forget" how to be fit like many states. Indeed, if you stay off sports for a while and gain weight, or simply lose touch to your conditioning, you won't be able to run for as long a time as before, your muscles will be weaker and you won't have the same tonus. But you won't have to start from scratch all over again, because once you've trained using soccer conditioning exercises before, it will be a lot easier to step up and get to that level of fitness again. What's the best way to do this? It depends on one's Read more:Soccer
Soccer Goalkeeping Drills 2008-04-05 01:07:00 The goalkeeper's job is certainly the toughest of all soccer players, since whereas a defender, midfielder or attacker can get off with a couple of mistakes every now and then, a goalkeeper's mistakes are a lot more visible. To complicate things even further, modern goalkeepers have even more attributions than before: they need to coordinate the defense, they sometimes need to act as sweepers and they can fire off lethal counter attacks after a clean save. For all these to happen of course, a goalkeeper will have to be thoroughly trained using specific soccer goalkeeping drills. Most commonly, such drills focus on soccer goalkeeping training skills such as mobility, flexibility, agility and reflexes rather than physical training. Let's take a look at some popular soccer goalkeeping drills Read more:Soccer
Soccer Field Dimensions 2008-04-05 01:06:00 Back in the day when soccer was in its infancy, soccer field layout was rather irregular in its dimensions and this created several problems for the players. One player from, say, York would play on a field that was 60 yards long, while the guys in Liverpool would play on one that was 140 yards. Obviously, when either team played on the competitor's field, they were at a loss. That is why, over time, soccer field dimensions were regulated, first by the Football Association, the first soccer organization in history, created by the English in the late 19th century, then by FIFA. Today's dimensions of soccer fields still offer some room for variation, because not all pitches can be made on a same exact perimeter. So, the width of the field can range from 50 to 100 yards officially, but it's Read more:Soccer
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Improve Your Soccer Betting Using The Win Draw Loss Method 2008-04-05 01:04:00 Improve Your Soccer
Betting is a series of articles that describe some well known and well used statistical techniques that will help the soccer punter make more informed bets. Each of the techniques has its own advantages and disadvantages and using them in isolation will improve your chances of winning. However, together they will prove invaluable in your battle with the bookies. In each article we will describe in detail how a particular method works giving you enough information for you to go ahead and create your own forecasts. We will also give you information as to where you can already find websites that use this technique in comprising their weekly soccer betting forecasts. The statistical methods described in this set of articles will help you to arrive at a better decision about Read more:Improve
Improve Your Soccer Betting Using The Simple Sequence Method 2008-04-05 01:04:00 Improve Your Soccer
Betting is a series of articles that describe some well known and well used statistical techniques that will help the soccer punter make more informed bets. Each of the techniques has its own advantages and disadvantages and using them in isolation will improve your chances of winning. However, together they will prove invaluable in your battle with the bookies. In each article we will describe in detail how a particular method works giving you enough information for you to go ahead and create your own forecasts. We will also give you information as to where you can already find websites that use this technique in comprising their weekly soccer betting forecasts. The statistical methods described in this set of articles will help you to arrive at a better decision about Read more:Improve
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United States Soccer Youth Movement Is Underway 2008-04-05 01:03:00 The UnitedStates
youth movement is underway. For the first time since 1998, the United States
has won a game in Europe against a team other than Poland. After starting unbeaten in his first 11 matches, head coach Bob Bradley and the United States had lost five in a row. That was until his son, Michael, touched in an 86th minute winner, to beat Switzerland 1-0 in Basel. The US did it with a number of players who weren't even in the 4th grade in 1998. 20 year old regular starter Bradley was joined in the starting XI by Maurice Edu, 21, who earned his first cap for the men's senior national team. Edu, who plays for Toronto FC in Major League Soccer
, looked like a seasoned veteran in the midfield, controlling play defensively and providing a key outlet pass that led to the United States lone Read more:Underway
5 Soccer Fitness Training Tips 2008-04-05 01:02:00 It’s known as ‘The Beautiful Game’, and is the most popular game around the world. Enjoyed everywhere from playing fields to streets to high schools, soccer is a game everyone can enjoy. However, as fun as it is, to play it properly you need to be fit as well as skillful, and this is where dedicated soccer training comes into effect. Yet even this needs to be done properly, in order to get the maximum benefit from your soccer training. After all, it’s no good being the fittest player on the park if you have to come off with a pulled muscle because you didn’t warm up properly beforehand. Therefore, making sure you have a set routine for your soccer fitness training is crucial to get the best results every time. - Warm up. Just like any exercise, you need to make sure your body is Read more:Soccer
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SOCCER - The Philosophy of Brazilian Football 2008-04-05 01:00:00 Do you like soccer? Do you play it regularly? Do you want to improve yourself? If yes, read on this article which will introduce you the philosophy of the legendary Brazilian
football. Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazil's World Cup winning roach, said in an interÂview leading up to the Cup finals that for his team to do well it had to be "defensively organized, as fit or fitter than its opponents, and offensively express themselves in the 'Brazilian way'". What are the characteristics of modern Brazilian football? To play fast and secure with unpredictable and creative offensive attacking movement. How does the Brazilian approach differ from that of the English? The Dutch? The German? Let's start by describing the individual Brazilian player and then his team play. First, the individual Br Read more:Philosophy
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The Universal Language of Soccer 2008-04-05 00:51:00 There are six billion people on the planet, with thousands of things that separate us from knowing and understanding one another. Language, distance and cultural differences are just a few things that build walls and keep us from getting to know our fellow human beings. How are you supposed to forge relationships when you can't even ask somebody how they're feeling that day? Despite cultural and language barriers, there are many things that all people share, no matter where they are. Soccer
is one of the ways that we can bridge the gaps between cultures. It's the most popular sport in the world, and the World Cup, held once every four years, has a viewing audience twice that of the Summer Olympics, according to FIFA. Soccer - A common ground The rules of the soccer game are the same no m Read more:Universal
How to Kick a Soccer Ball - A Youth Coach's Nightmare 2008-04-04 23:16:00 How many times have you heard it shouted from the soccer coach's and soccer parents? "Don't kick with your toe, use your laces." Sounds like a simple request, but most people working with youth soccer players find this to be a major stumbling point. Don't feel bad if you have a soccer player or soccer team that is struggling with the basics of kicking a soccer ball or passing. I have had the pleasure of working with some of the greatest youth coaches that hold a C - A certification and they struggle with the same issue. One of the biggest problems with teaching the correct soccer kick form is that people see this as one simple issue. In our research we found that there are several issues that need to be dealt with. If you start as we did on the Blast The Ball video, you start with the "e Read more:Soccer
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Learn useful soccer tricks 2008-04-04 23:15:00 Soccer is a sport that has fans throughout the world and one which hasn't lost its appeal. People of all ages enjoy watching an exciting soccer match and there are many of them who try at home what they see at TV. It turns out that this is not such a bad idea since soccer tricks
can be learned by means of soccer videos and by practicing soccer players' tricks. Soccer tricks are divided into two types in the world of soccer: stall tricks and air tricks. Air Soccer tricks involve hitting the ball with one part of the body and sending it into the air, while stall tricks involve keeping the ball moving on the body and not in the air. The thing they have in common is the fact that it takes a lot of hard work in order to be able to master them. Men are always eager to learn about new Soccer tr
Winning Tips on Soccer Bet 2008-04-04 23:15:00 Soccer is by far the most famous sport that lures the highest number of fan. Watching soccer is a real fun. Following the progress of each team through a season is another load of heart-breaking and thrilling experiences. And especially Euro 2008 is coming. And, for many real soccer fans, betting on soccer doubles the fun they have. Soccer betting is one of their hobbies. Most soccer punters bet on their favorite teams to win. A large number of punters bet just for the sake of addiction. And only few of them seriously find ways to win profit in soccer betting. Those few serious punters will spend huge amount of time on researching before they place a bet. Below are the 3 winning methods that serious punters often use when betting on soccer. Firstly, they study about each squad’s streng Read more:Soccer
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Show, Don't Tell! The Importance of Promoting Yourself in a Competitive Soccer World 2008-04-04 23:13:00 How many times have you heard "It's not what you know, it's who you know?" It's been said so many times it's starting to get old, but the point is that it's important to get out there and meet people in your chosen field, however you can. We all have heard, over and over, the importance of networking and self-promotion for when you want a job. But what you may not have heard much about is the importance of self-promotion when you're a soccer player. If you're planning on pursuing soccer beyond high school, either by playing in college or by trying out for professional teams, you need to master the art of self-promotion. Unfortunately, for a lot of people, this is harder than it sounds. When we think of somebody who talks about their accomplishments, we tend to think of people who are ar Read more:Soccer
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Playing Soccer 2008-04-04 23:12:00 Soccer is a game enjoyed the world over by both spectators and participants alike, as a faced paced, team sport which requires athleticism and skill in equal measure. If you're interested in participating in soccer, either in an organized or spontaneous manner, there are plenty of opportunities for getting involved. Soccer as a sport relies much less on equipment than physical effort. The benefit of this is that you can get going with very little initial financial outlay. With little more than a ball, you can get going and have a great deal of fun with as little as three players. All you require is a sufficient number of participants, objects to act as goalposts, and a ball before you're ready to get playing. It's even possible just to have a kick around with the ball, although the tradit Read more:Soccer
A Soccer Players Devotion To The Game Over Self 2008-04-04 23:12:00 Soccer fans love the game of soccer because it is filled with pulsating action that comes from teams that represent people from all parts of the world. Soccer allows people of all cultures to integrate onto a playing surface and exhibit their talent in a very aggressive game that is watched by millions of people each weekend. When one of those players is missing though, a different type of hell breaks loose. Soccer is a sport that is very respected by fans because they have made it their business to know all about the people involved with the game. The fans understand the time and commitment that some soccer players put into a game that they love doing every day of the week. There are certain soccer players that still must prove their abilities in a foreign land even after they have become Read more:Soccer
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International Soccer Camps: Building Intercultural Competence for the Next Generation 2008-04-30 02:05:00 You want your kids to have every opportunity to succeed in this world. You want them to learn self-discipline, how to be healthy, and to gain an appreciation and understanding for the world around them. The business world is becoming increasingly globalized. Intercultural competence, the skill which allows people to operate effectively in an international setting, is becoming ever more important. What better way to ensure your kids are ready for the "real world" than to make sure they know how to navigate a variety of different cultures? And what better way to introduce them to the concept by using a sport they already know and love: soccer? Soccer
(or football) is the most popular international sport. Millions of people all across the globe eagerly play it and keep up with it, and inter Read more:International
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Soccer tackling techniques 2008-05-01 02:06:00 There are many football pundits who who that tackling has effectively been banned in recent years. For certain, if you date back to the 1970s and 1880s, tackling was a great deal more aggressive and more physical contact was allowed. The typical stereotype of a defender was that they were big, strong, and slow. Players like Tommy Smith (Liverpool), Jack Charlton (Leeds), and Ron 'Chopper' Harris (Chelsea) were the embodiment of this stereotype. In modern years, the World's administration (FIFA) have altered the rules (and interpretation of the rules) so that any bodily contact from behind is more or less outlawed. This has led to a change in the characteristics needed of a top-ranking defender. It is more important to be able to interpret the play and make interceptions, or to close down a Read more:Soccer
Brazilian Soccer 2008-05-03 02:19:00 Brazilian Soccer
. The soccer madness that has never relaxed its hold on Brazil began at the turn of the century, caused the entire nation to plunge into depression in 1950, later lifted it to peaks of euphoria between 1958 and 1970, contributed to the malaise caused by the political, social, and economic difficulties afflicting the country in the 1980s, and in 1994 gave Brazil's collective self-esteem a badly needed boost. Global and Brazilian Soccer 2006 Sport is almost a secular religion with its myths, rules and revered heroes, often competing with religion when games are played at the same time as church services, say two Brazilian researchers. "Football and politics, the construction of a national identity". Their conclusion that soccer is like a secular religion is one of the finding Read more:Brazilian
A Quick 'How To' On Soccer 2008-05-05 02:06:00 Soccer has been around for decades but has only begun to catch on in recent times. More and more individuals are attracted to the fun and allure of the sport. With it's fast paced action and fun game play, people are coming out of the woodwork to learn how to play soccer. Learing how to play soccer is quick and easy and can be leared in a short period of time. There are no preset rules that say you have to join a league or get involved in a club to play soccer. Soccer can be played with friends, family or on a team in your own backyard, if there's room. Even though the regulation size of a team is 11 people, there is nothing stopping you from playing with just one other person. 2 people can simply play together and try and get past the opposing player and score a goal. If you choose to gat Read more:Quick
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Soccer Positions 2008-05-08 02:19:00 As with basketball, soccer is a game with players who perform a specific role. A team is comprised of eleven positions. There is one goalkeeper or goalie, and ten others who have to defend attack or take up midfield positions. Each role has a specific set of skills and a specific area to deal with. Goalie or Goalkeeper It is the goalie’s who has to prevent the opponents from scoring a goal. This person is the only one who can touch the ball with their hands and they can only move within a certain area of the field. Defenders or Defensive Positions These positions help the goalie prevent opponents from scoring a goal. Like the goalie, they are restricted to a certain area of the field. *Centerback-the centerbacks try to stop the opponents particularly the strikers of the opposing team fro Read more:Soccer
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