started my soccer career, if you could call it that, as a carefree kindergartener. Soccer at the time was just the thing that preceeded the real event, the postgame snack that would traditionally consist of cupcakes or Oreos and a juice box or occasionally the god-awful apple from a health conscious mother. So how is it that this sport would grow to become one of my greatest sources of joy and pride? This pride I speak of has not come from any particular standout skill; I am by no means a soccer…
absolute personal best, in every single one of them. I’ve been playing soccer ever since I was about five or six years old. I kept up with this sport not just for the fact that I’m fairly decent at it, but also because I just enjoy playing. I enjoy the game so much that whenever college made its way into my mind, I instantly thought that soccer can be my ticket into my future education. Therefore, I started to focus on soccer by putting a lot of extra time in practicing all the critical things…
Benefits of Soccer He dribbles down the wing, cuts inside, and fires a shot away. The crowd goes wild as the ball whizzes into the net. The amazing sport of soccer can be breathtaking and beneficial to kids playing it. It is fun and helps to make one stronger and faster, it can help one make new friends, and it can help one develop a hobby to take up time. Playing soccer can help one become a superior athlete. Coaches are one of the main necessities to developing one’s speed and strength.…
Vertical Soccer This exciting sport is played on a billboard painted to look like a real soccer field, with two goals mounted on either side. The players are held by cables around their waste and the ball is suspended using cables that hang over the middle of the field. The objective of this sport is the same as any other soccer game, score the most goals and win. Vertical Soccer was, at first, a “promotional experiment” by Adidas in Japan. The sport is not played regularly, but continues to be…
Stepping onto the soccer pitch for the first time, my heart pounded with adrenaline causing my hands to tremble. I looked towards my teammates to find where to stand as the newly memorized rules jumbled around in my head. As the referee blew the starting whistle, I mustered up the confidence and courage from within to play amongst my new found family. I kept my hands close to my sides in a last ditch effort to fight my natural inclination to swing my arms at the ball, like the years of tennis…
would happen to me. Obtaining a spot on the junior varsity soccer team was one of them. What I did not know, though, was that it was not going to be as simple as I believed. Unfortunately, I was not able to acquire a spot on the team. Getting cut from the soccer team made me realize several things: I was not as good as I believed, you must work hard/put in the effort in order to be good at something, and it was not the end of the world. My soccer journey began in the third grade. I had just…
Easy steps on how to become a professional soccer player how to become a pro soccer player, soccer training To be an expert in any sport requires a lot of practice and passion. If you are dedicated to learning it, you would no longer remain an amateur in it. All this holds true for soccer too. It is not something that can happen only in childhood. It can happen even in your teens and for that matter, at any time of your life. What it takes is a bit of conviction, hard work and some luck perhaps…
Soccer Zone When I was 11, I played in many soccer games. I was very good for my age and so was my team. We rarely lost during that amazing season. When I signed up for this soccer team in autumn, I did not know what to expect. At the tryouts, there were many kids that had odd and different hobbies than I had. Of course everybody on the pitch knew the core videogames that everyone played, Madden for example. That was all I would talk about with them. Apart from that similarity, I thought that…
To the uninitiated, soccer formations might sound complicated. But with the help of a few practical examples, you can learn about the 4-4-2 formation right up to the more obscure ones at the other end of the scale. A soccer formation is the way that the coach arranges his eleven players on the field. Generally these rotate around the four cardinal soccer positions for football formations: goalkeeper, defense, midfield, and attack. The formations given in numbers are simply the number of…
The total soccer fitness guide for soccer players provides information about strength and power conditioning, aerobic and anaerobic endurance conditioning, speed, agility and quickness conditioning, flexibility, warming up and cooling down and testing our level of fitness use scientific methods. In this guide you will learn the difference between aerobic and anaerobic endurance and their importance in keeping you fit, the four phases of strength training program and when they should be started,…