 Category :: Soccer Articles |
Author :: Neil Travers  |
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| Article Title :: The Need For Speed In Soccer |
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| Soccer players are athletes, but unlike a 100m runner where there is explosive speed for 10 seconds in a straight line, there are many other abilities that soccer players need to develop.Here are 5 key soccer related speed abilities that you should develop in your players.#1 - Speed of thoughtSoccer players have a great deal to concentrate on. There senses are constantly being blitzed with information, which they need to quickly decipher. Here are some examples:- Where opponents are positioned- Actions of their team mates- What's infront of them and their peripheral vision- The conditions of the pitch and the weather- The nois (read full article) |
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| Category :: Soccer Articles |
Author :: Leo Cuccione |
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| Article Title :: Soccer Jerseys - A Fad among Soccer Lovers |
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| Soccer players are not the only persons who wear soccer jerseys. These days more and more people are wearing jerseys of their favorite soccer team. Wearing authentic jerseys to promote their favorite teams and display their affiliations is not a new concept among sports lovers. However, off late wearing authentic jerseys of popular teams has acquired the status of passion. Even though you will find people of all ages wearing replica jerseys, young and college going crowd displays and added inclination towards soccer jersey.Soccer Jersey- Reasons for Increasing PopularitySoccer has always lagged behind as sports apparel-merchandising opportunity in America. Traditionally socc (read full article) |
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| Category :: Soccer Articles |
Author :: Stuart Noble |
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| Article Title :: Soccer in Scotland |
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| Scotland has throughout its history been playing Soccer. Historically Scottish soccer players weren’t limited to 11 players per team, whole villages of Scottish soccer devotees used to challenge other villages to a game.
The rules of soccer at that point weren’t very uniform and there was little if any provisions against violence, because of this attempts were made to outlaw the game, with King James I even saying in Parliament, "That na man play at the Fute-ball" (No man shall play football/soccer). Despite the attempts of clerics, sheriffs, mayors and even a King the game was kept alive by Scottish soccer players.
As times changed Soccer became a widely accepted (read full article) |
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| Category :: Soccer Articles |
Author :: Ray Smith |
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| Article Title :: Soccer The War Game! -Looking Back To Its Origin |
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| Believe it or not, but the modern day soccer owes its origin to the barbarous war mongering nature of human beings.There is no proper documentation that can state the date and place of origination of the most popular modern day sport—Soccer. However, depending on the socio-historical facts and data we can assume that some type of a ball game was played somewhere in this planet for at least over 3000years now.The earliest evidence of soccer was found in Kyoto, Japan where a field marked to play a ball-kicking game was found.There is also proper documentation that supports the fact that the Chinese military forces around 2nd and 3rd century BC (Han Dynasty) played a g (read full article) |
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| Category :: Soccer Articles |
Author :: John Watson |
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| Article Title :: Success Lessons From Three UK Soccer Managers - People Are Always Quick To Put You In A Coffin |
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| Arsenal Football Club were the Champions of the Premier league in English soccer in 2004. This year they have not done as well and are only in third place.The manager of Arsenal is Arsene Wenger. He is the French magician who brought Arsenal to the top of English football.He has found out the hard way how quick people are to write you off even if you recently achieved a huge success. He commented"People are always quick to put you in your coffin."Arsene admits that Arsenal have little chance of retaining their title as Champions but they are still third in the league and as such will be able to take part in the European Champion's league next year.Arsenal have (read full article) |
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| Category :: Soccer Articles |
Author :: Kevin McGee |
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| Article Title :: Warm-up for Soccer Training and Games |
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| To improve your soccer coaching skills, you’ve got to make sure your players give their bodies the chance to perform at their best. That means sensible warm-ups and cool-down, before and after a match or a soccer training session of any kind.
Soccer is a demanding physical game. So providing encouragement and instruction and making sure your players do adequate physical preparation is one of the most important responsibilities in soccer coaching.
The warm up is a process to increase awareness, improve co-ordination, improve elasticity and contractibility of muscles, and increase the efficiency of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems.
Soccer training a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Soccer Articles |
Author :: Richard Kerr-Bell |
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| Article Title :: Why Coach Soccer? And How To Have Fun |
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| Warren Buffet might not know soccer, but when he said, "Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up", he was onto something.When it comes to coaching, everyone wants a say but few are willing to turn their words into action and take a team… even under 8’s which is where yours truly started.How can You enjoy coaching soccer? Let me count the ways:1. Coach your kids and you get to spend more time with them at something you can help them have fun at AND enjoy mastering new skills.2. Coaching young people of any age gives you the opportunity to have a massive and important influence on the future of your community and country! This is not ju (read full article) |
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| Category :: Soccer Articles |
Author :: Michael Cooper |
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| Article Title :: History of Soccer - An Essay |
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| The score is tied 1-1. It’s you and the goalie with ten seconds left. You dribble left, then right, you shoot . . . GOOOAAALLL!!! "Association Football", "football" or, in this age, "soccer" is considered an international pastime. It is played in more towns, cities, and countries than any other sport in the world. Millions share the love for this sport. Comparable to baseball in the US, or hockey in Canada, soccer enjoys the same reputation in the countries of Europe and South America. The sport’s popularity is swiftly growing in America. So what is it about this sport that attracts more and more participants every year? What is it that invites crowds of a hundred thousand (read full article) |
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| Category :: Soccer Articles |
Author :: Rob Mellor |
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| Article Title :: Soccer Betting - An Introduction |
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| Lawmakers have been thus penned down to make tough new measures to crack down on corruption in sports related betting. Bets are placed on individual player’s performances, the winning team, scores in the game, etc.Technology aids availableToday you can bet on the Internet, at casinos, through national lottery and also on cell phones. Growth of Internet betting exchanges has made sports more vulnerable to fraud and match fixing. Now betting is done with the help of GPRS technology, which is a more faster and reliable way for account holders to place their bets. Users are charged for the volume of data rather than the time spent using the service. But the police are now reso (read full article) |
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| Category :: Soccer Articles |
Author :: David Carter |
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| Article Title :: Chelsea Set to Dominate European Football |
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| There is a new heavyweight force in European football, they are being bankrolled seemingly by the Russian economy, they mean business, and their name is Chelsea F.C. Chelsea Football Club have always been a decent club in the second strata of English clubs. In London alone Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have invariably been ahead of the Chelsea Blues, even West Ham have often put Chelsea in the shade. But no longer, for in the season 2004-2005, Chelsea won the English Premier League title for the first time in fifty years, their only previous winning season.But they haven’t stopped there, in the new season 2005-2006 they are already well clear in the title race leaving all their r (read full article) |
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