Association football

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…

Harry Kane, Coutinho and Julian Draxler star in Hugo Boss Parfum ad Harry Kane, Philippe Coutinho, Julian Draxler and Alvaro Morata may all be rivals on the soccer field, but they’re all playing for team Hugo Boss as part of the fashion company’s major new advertising campaign. Tottenham striker Kane, currently sidelined with a ligament injury to his right ankle earlier this month in a game against Bournemouth, has joined forces with other soccer stars like Coutinho, Draxler and Morata as part…

Topic: Running in Barcelona If you are very fervent in keeping yourself fit and active, especially practicing running and you are in the city of Barcelona, then you are in the idea place. The best way to discovering any city is by running around it. There are different fascinating places for you to enjoy running while having a superb view of the Catalan city itself. In this article, we will explore several places for you to enjoy. You relax while we take the pain and hassle in letting you know…

are hard done by the rule as they have to concede the penalty and subsequent easy goal scoring opportunity to the opponent, and to add insult to injury they are one-man short as the result of the player’s suspension from the match. ("Sin-bins in Football ...")This kind of action can result to unfair results, especially when the player’s actions are undeliberate and natural as in the reflex actions to avoid the ball to hit his…

Payton just got done playing a soccer game on a nice day. After the game she stayed back to practice a little more. When she was done practicing alone she started walking home because she did not live far. As she started to walk home, she stopped to tie her shoe. She was about to take out her phone to call her mom when she heard someone yelling for help, but Payton did not know it was a trap. She walked over to see who it was, but out of nowhere a guy came up behind her and put his hand over her…

My past few summers consisted of staying up all night, watching television, then sleeping during the day. It was a fun way to spend my summers, but it wasn’t satisfying. So, when the idea of spending three days a week, for eight weeks, playing soccer during the summer became a possibility, I had an odd feeling of motivation. Early into 2016, my interest in soccer was relit. Perhaps I wanted to be more like my brother, who’s serious in obtaining a career in professional soccer. Nonetheless, I…