Association football terminology

The U.S Women’s National team won the 2015 World Cup held in Canada. The U.S team defeated Japan 5-2 in the Cup finals. The previous world cup finals the U.S.A women were defeated by the Japan team. This was the first world cup win since 1999 which the United States hosted. Within the 1999 tournament the United States Women placed 3rd over China. Some highlights from the game were that Carli Lloyd scored the fastest hat trick in world history. Her first goal was in the third minute when Megan…

At the age of five years, he shad began playing football for Grandoli, a association traind by his father. In 1995, Messi changed to Newell 's Old Boys. At age 11, he was identified to have a growth hormone deficiency. River Plate showed attention in Messi 's growth, although did not have sufficient money to pay for…

Game day. I wake up and that is my first thought. Although it is not the first game of the season, so many emotions are running through me. Western Dubuque is a great team. There is crappy weather coming our way.I need to eat breakfast. Their leading scorer is 2nd in the state for goals. All of these toxic thoughts flooded my mind. One thing I did not know that morning is that I would take the biggest emotional and physical blow later that day. The feeling I get whenever I step on to the field…

When you look back on life you will have traveled to many places, seen many things, and met many people, however there are some places you go along the way that will impact you forever, and leave you with many stories to tell for all your friends, and family to hear. I know I am still young and have not experienced nearly half of the journey’s that I will go on later in life, nonetheless there is one place that I will truly remember for eternity, and most certainly tell my children about. That…

My daughter and I took our annual trip to the soccer specialty store to buy goalie gloves. This trip is necessary every year because pre-teen girls grow out of gloves quickly, goalie gloves do not really last that long and old goalie gloves smell something awful. My daughter is the full-time starting goalie for an outstanding U12 team. The team plays in a regional league and top tournaments. It's some serious soccer, so I wanted to get her some serious gloves. Before we went to the store, I…

Importance of energy systems involved in performance: During a soccer game, each energy system is applied with various intensities from low to high that are used. It can be hard to establish which energy system is used most frequently during a game of soccer for a defender. This is because there are many different movements performed with different levels of intensity that change throughout a game of soccer. For example, a defender will usually sprint and then stop, walk, jog and then sprint…

Enhancing health and well-being is an important aspect of everyone’s lives. Exercise can benefit a person physically, but more importantly mentally. Various exercise activities can improve mood when you are down and even eliminate stress in your life. It gives you a chance to escape your everyday routine and have some time to your own. Exercise, whether we know it or not, is an important aspect of life from the time when you can walk all the way until the day you die. In order to stay on track,…

The Bloody Soccer ball I was running out of breathe. I was pretty good at sprinting, but I felt like I was running a marathon. I couldn’t see him but I heard him and he wasn’t far. I saw something in front of me, but I couldn’t stop. This morning my friends and I were playing an intense game of soccer on the soccer field on my son’s school. Everyday my son comes home from school telling me that the field has something wrong with it and I shouldn’t go on it, but I didn’t care about what he said…

I grew up in a different environment than most people do with my father being a Hispanic pastor. Every Sunday I went to 2 services and played in the band during those services when I got older. It wasn 't until the last 3 or 4 years that I got to dress more casually, but before this I wore long pants and a collared shirt every Sunday all day. I grew up believing in God and following his commandments and thought this was the right and only way to live. Since I went to a Christian school most of…

Who or what is FIFA and why does the FIFA scandal concern me? First, let’s look into FIFA. FIFA (La Fédération Internationale de Football Association) is the international governing body of football (better known as soccer here in the US). FIFA is responsible for the organization of football 's major international tournaments, most notably the Men’s and Women’s World Cup. FIFA was founded on May 21, 1904 in Paris by delegates from Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and…