"Street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found"
Street Soccer – Missing in America? by Larry Paul, Wednesday, October 1, 2008
By analyzing street soccer yourself, you will conclude that its strength is that it is played daily in a competitive form, with a preference for the match on all sorts of ’street playing fields’, usually in small groups. Rarely in street soccer do you see youths busy practicing isolated technical and tactical drills. No, it is always the competitive form, where youth players learn from their mistakes, unconscious of the technical, tactical, mental and physical qualities they are developing through the scrimmages being played.
Winning
By Sean Bushéy, Technical Director, Spokane Shadow Youth Soccer Club,
August 3, 2008
Every time I come away from a youth soccer game whether I am out recruiting for Whitworth or just watching my kids play, I end up shaking my head…and it doesn’t matter the level. Do you know who cares the most about winning? Parents! Who is next on the list? Coaches….however, the best coaches will always keep losing in perspective. Who is last? You guessed it, players. Ultimately, players just want to play.
You Wouldn’t Shout at Me While I’m Learning to Read!
How can we help create players who can invent the future of the game?
There is little doubt that skill levels among top football players have evolved over the past 30 to 40 years. Players like Maradona and Ronaldinho have lead the way in evolving new moves and taking skill levels beyond what was thought to be possible. Cruyff made a particular turn famous – so famous that it has been named after him and appears in almost every skills coaching manual.
Player Development
By John Allpress - The Football Association, England | Tuesday, July 17, 2007
How easy it is to criticize from the sidelines. Instructions are easy to give but not always that easy to follow, especially if the person giving out the instructions is 35 plus and the person receiving them is 11 or under. Views of the world and frames of reference are totally different - a complete mis-match. What is vitally important to one person may not even have occurred to the other.
