Soccer Defensive Strategies : Soccer is played with 11 players on both sides on a rectangular field. Many other forms of soccer have also sprung up and are fast gaining popularity like Indoor soccer. It’s a difficult task for 11 players to play with eleven people on one team because every player has his opinion [...]
Having a good defense in soccer is critical to your team’s success. When I say that your team has to know how to defend well, it doesn’t mean you have to put the “Bus” in front of your goal! I’m a big fan of Benfica (since I was born), and this year I’ve seen a [...]
When I was a young player, I just loved to run with the ball “glued” to my left foot. When the opposite team gained possession and I had to run back to defense, it wasn’t that fun anymore… my feet seemed to weight a ton. This happens all the time and usually who suffers is [...]
Most coaches, when they start teaching soccer, are thrown into the game “arena” after just a few practices. (That happened to me too.) Before I´ve had the change to teach literally anything to the players, I saw myself into the “war zone”, having to deal with all these ‘weird’ defensive and offensive game situations and [...]
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