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The  National Alliance for Youth Sports resource helping coaches, parents, and administrators provide the best youth sports experiences for children publishes “Stimulating Soccer.”   READ IT HERE

Last weekend was a mixed emotion weekend for me. I was supposed to travel to Kansas City with Pat Ferre and our wives to watch Pat receive the US Youth

There is no promise that hard work and dedication will guarantee a world-renown or stellar career. Many officials commit the time and effort it takes to become the best they

So, we’re at the start of the New Year, and with it come goals for a variety of improvements. As a soccer player, are goals ever really set for the

The critical elements of keen youngsters, plenty of opportunities to play, can WALK to a pitch, often small-sided – 5v5, 7v7, rarely full-sided, and accessible to any child.  Players control

I will disagree a little bit or perhaps suggest another reason for my friend Graham.  Although I played on hard surfaces and challenging situations, it was not this that differentiated

Great read! Mike Hodges article, ‘Resolutions Aren’t Just for the New Year!’ I agree setting individual goals is important, so children understand personal responsibility and not just go through the motions.

Being a model to emulate is a powerful function of the hero. The issue here is that everyone is fallible. Even the superheroes within comic worlds have their foibles. More

Great Coaches Are Pro Failure; They Are Pro-Learning. How you present, the role of failure is essential. Unless you expressly and actively make it psychologically safe to fail, your players