Why is soccer the world’s most popular sport? It is a question that taxes even the most expert brains. Perhaps it is the simplicity of the game. All we need…
Soccer is about scoring goals. Soccer passing practice sessions by defensive coaches indicate that they are getting increasingly good at training their players to stop this. This has led to…
The World Champion, highly successful women’s soccer team were pretty impressive in the recent World Cup in France. There was an interesting quote from USA co-captain and, we might controversially…
Here’s an interesting fact. Soccer attracts more participants missing a lower limb than any other sport. It must do. How many times do we hear the phrase: ‘He hasn’t got…
Whether known as football or, as in the US, soccer; the ‘beautiful game’ is the most popular sport in the world. The best players earn millions of dollars per year,…
The world’s best players have more in common with the park player than first comes to mind. While we mere mortals might not earn their multi million dollar a year…
Here’s an interesting statistic. Teams are more than half as likely again to score from a counter attack than a standard, positional attack. Of course, we can deduce anything from…
There is a saying in soccer, a rather obvious one, that goes something like ‘You can’t score if you don’t have the ball… and the opposition won’t put the ball…
A Kick Around Down the Park There’s a reason that soccer is the world’s most popular sport. Actually, there are several reasons, but for the purpose of this blog we…