Johan Cruyff On Technique, Skills, Coaching Courses ‘TODAY’S FOOTBALL IS: completely different especially when it comes to the physical aspect – the players are in better physical shape, which is probably the result of all these coaching courses. There’s nothing wrong with having fit footballers, but their technical and ball skills have not grown at…
U.S. Women’s National Team Brandi Chastain Quote: Brandi Chastain Quote: “You have to be brave enough to be vulnerable. Vulnerability is not weakness. It’s an opportunity for high reward.” said U.S. Women’s National Team World Cup Player Brandi Chastain of her reaction to her game-winning goal versus China in the 1999 Women’s World Cup final….
Winning is contagious. Losing is contagious. Therefore, choose your contagion wisely.
“When this. . . Then that. No! Do that! Be that! Now!” Fidel Gonzales. Regardless of where you are in life and whom you are with, most barriers to achievement exist first and foremost within the mind. From the mind, those barriers manifest, are given life, through words. Words become action. Action becomes the way…
If You Cannot See the Play, You Cannot Read the Play. If You Cannot Read the Play, You Cannot Anticipate the Play. If You Cannot Anticipate the Play, You Are Reacting to the Play. And as such, Your Opponent Owns the Initiative, Owns Your Game.
“If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people.” – Lorrie Fair Lorraine Ming “Lorrie” Fair was a professional women’s soccer player who racked up 120 appearances and seven goals for the United States Women’s National Team from 1996 to 2005. She was rostered for one World Cup Team…
“A penalty is a cowardly way to score.” Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento).
“Soccer and basketball are the only mainstream sports that truly plug into the modern-pulse of a dot-com society. Soccer is perfectly suited for a country of the hamster-treadmill pace, the remote-control zap and the national attention deficit–two 45-minute halves, the clock never stops, no commercial interruptions, the final whistle blows in less than two hours….
“The ball moves faster than the man. The mind moves faster than the ball. Therefore, be the mind, who (with the ball) is master of the man, who is master of the men upon the pitch.” A quote from Fidel Gonzales, following an observation gleaned from a recent High Desert Elite preseason game in spring…