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Lionel Messi and What Makes Soccer So Great
Posted by admin in Soccer, Universal Sports on December 11, 2011
Soccer is the universal sport. For those who love what everyone outside the USA calls “football,” there is no more beautiful game than the one played with one’s feet.
What makes soccer so universally appealing that children in the remotest parts of the world know who Lionel Messi is? Well, let’s take Messi as an example. The 5 foot 6 inch tall FA Barcelona forward is small, even by soccer standards. But Messi’s diminutive size in no way diminishes his effectiveness on the field of play.
In fact, soccer is one of the few sports where smallness of stature can be an advantage, if it is accompanied by quickness, intelligence, vision, and extraordinary eye-foot coordination, which results in exceptional ball control and dribbling. Read the rest of this entry »
Soccer Practice – Discover 3 New Techniques
In soccer practice, it doesn’t take a lot to teach and train different kinds of skills to players to get successful. The kids can be trained on three different kids of techniques. There’s no significant difference in training the kids in soccer skills or some other technique. Different people call these teaching methods by different names. I call it as “FIG”. It’ll be described for you in the following paragraphs.
Foundation: In soccer training, this consists of the base upon which the team’s coming stages and eventually the entire future as a team would rest. The lowest level trainings therefore form the basis of the game. It’s necessary for every kid to know and learn these skills even when these are of no use in actual game. The team would be complete and versatile if it is based on a sound foundation follows a sound strategy.
Intermediate: I in FIG refers to intermediate. These are the middle level techniques that are necessary in attaching the basics with the game skills. So we must know that the mid level techniques and actual game skills are very different in nature. In soccer coaching, the intermediate skills differ from the game skills. But they pave the way to building the actual game skills. Read the rest of this entry »