If one picture could capture what is wrong with youth development in the United States, this is it. Ultimagoal! Your one stop shop for replacing people, the one thing necessary to develop a competent soccer player. There are several obvious problems with this thing.
First, soccer is a game you play with people, not mesh panels.
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Pregame — No Stevie G. Rooney healthy. Just refresh you page every now and again to keep up with the match commentary.
Balls on the field. We knew that one was coming. Poor Pepe.
And we’ve kicked off. United moving right to left, which obviously leaves Liverpool moving in the other direction.
3 min - Rooney scores. But the flag is up.
Every week in Football for Change, Nutmeg Radio will highlight the work being done by organizations across the globe using soccer to promote development. This week we focus on Grassroot Soccer (GRS), a charitable organization that uses soccer as a tool to fight HIV and AIDS in Africa. GRS targets and trains African soccer stars, coaches, teachers, and peer educators in a specialized curriculum to deliver an interactive HIV prevention and life skills curriculum to youth. To date, GRS has educated over 270,000 kids and has no plans to stop.
Didier et Les Eléphants avec Magic System.
Chuck’s post on Ochopsycho raises a topic that many of us hypothesize about with some frequency — whether a top athlete in one sport would be able to compete at the highest level in another sport. But since that’s such an open question, let’s focus on Ocho’s comment as applied to making the transition from American football to real football.
My counterpoint to G.B.’s Management Under Fire post may not be as eloquent as the original post, but eloquence isn’t always my thing. The thing is, unfortunately, coaches get blamed for everything and get fired after poor runs. But players are often allowed to suck regardless of the fact that they are megastars on fat salaries who are allowed to get drunk and do the robot on Sunday nights while hanging out of the sunroof of a moving vehicle. It’s not just Rafa. And it’s not just the coaches … although some of them are hot garbage. The players need to be blamed as well.
Ok. Perms don’t heal, but Didier Drogba does.
Cotê d’Ivoire, bordering World Cup finalist Ghana, was long considered an example of African success. Yet, like many other countries on the continent, Cotê d’Ivoire, once a paragon of stability in Africa, tumbled into political and military turmoil. (more…)
If you love perms or Didier Drogba, you’ll love the Les Éléphants shirt …
Spain is trying to conquer the world again. This time, they might succeed.
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