Preventing Soccer-Related Groin Injuries
If you play soccer, your risk of groin injury is relatively high, as studies show that more than half of all soccer players injure this area during their lifetime. This [...]
5 Reasons College Coaches Love to Recruit Multi-Sport Athletes
"Do you prefer recruiting multi-sport athletes or single-sport athletes?" It's one of my favorite questions to ask college coaches. Overwhelmingly, college coaches love adding kids to their program who competed [...]
What Soccer Players Need for Physical and Mental Programming During COVID-19
You wake up disoriented. You wonder what you should do. You do not know where to begin. Should it be stillness? Should it be schoolwork? Should it be fitness training? [...]
How the Slow, Small Kid Can Still Become an Elite Soccer Player
Big, strong and fast. Those are the traits that dominate youth soccer in America. If you don't have them, there's a good chance you'll get overlooked. Despite all the lip [...]
My Favorite Speed Drills for Soccer Players
"What is the answer to speed development?" Soccer players, soccer parents and soccer coaches, alike, often ponder this question. In one corner, you have the coach who says running nothing [...]
20 Coaches You Need to Follow on Social Media in 2020
As 2019 winds down, it’s a good time to reflect on the past 12 months to see how much you've changed. 365 days. That seems like such a long time, [...]
La Liga Soccer Team Performs Wild ‘Dodge Ball’ Training Drill
How do you spice up a training session? If you’re La Liga soccer team CD Leganés, you hurl giant exercise balls at your players: Now this is a training drill [...]
Ndamukong Suh: A Team’s Strength Coach Is Its ‘Secret’ Weapon
Ndamukong Suh has seen it all. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle has played in nearly 150 career NFL games. He’s played in a Super Bowl. He's endured a 4-12 [...]
3 Sports Parent Behaviors That Turn Off College Coaches
Recruiting has changed. College coaches are no longer recruiting just the student-athlete—they’re recruiting their parents, too. “An increasingly large part of the evaluation process for us is evaluating the parents,” [...]
Crazy College Soccer Scenario Leads Tulsa to Build 11-Man Wall
Creighton men’s soccer defeated Tulsa in the unlikeliest of fashions. During the 106th minute of golden goal overtime with the score knotted at 3-3, a Tulsa defender played a pass [...]