Category: confidence
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Ref Life:Another year of Football signals for Football in the PA High Schools.
Breaking news, referees don’t have to be zebras anymore according to the governing body of Pennsylvania High School Sports. A much bigger story would be getting the existing soccer chapters to agree to ditch the stripes of every other American sports for the contemporary look used by referees globally. The push to improve sportsmanship is…
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Jr. High: day 5 Dr. Rob Gilbert Success Hotline.
This post is a call to Dr. Rob Gilbert today. If you are an athlete, start today. If you are a human start today. If you want to learn about people who kept trying and succeeded this is for you. Call today the 18 August 2022. Dial 973-743-4690 and listen to Dr. Gilbert’s message. /success-hotline-with-dr-rob-gilbert
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Jr. High: BG Camp support and drop with transitions.
Dear Diary: Tonight we did a whole lot of thinking games. We had to count. We had to switch partners frequently as we played a 2v2 to 2 goal game. We started by learning how to work little combinations with one touch passes and drop balls to our partners. We then tried to incorporate it…
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Jr. High: BG Camp shooting stars
Dear Diary: Tonight we learned about shooting. We learned that the boys tend to finish with their hips going one way! While some girls tend to twist their hips like Shakira before they strike the ball. The main part of the night was reviewing our approach, our plant foot positioning, our striking surface of the…
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Jr. High: FIFA warm up’s:
It is summer time. High school soccer players are doing optional conditioning sessions to prepare for the compressed and condensed fall season in Pennsylvania that runs from mid August to Halloween. One key part to conditioning is making the running/training game like to prepare for the challenges on the rubberized pitches. Our friends at FIFA…
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Plum U8: Grass Roots Football night with Crew 02Jun2022
Thursday Night Football presented by the Plum Youth Soccer Club,. This is Grass Roots Football in Plum Boro, PA. Normally the lights are saved for the big kids but with all the 😜 crazy rain this spring season we were able to reschedule one of our make up games to a Thursday Night. Nature treated…
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Plum U8: parental pregame: Pass and Dribble
Pass, dribble Pass, dribble Those are today’s words of the day as we still have some players that are mastering how they play with the ball in a game. Coach Dave
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Jr. High: Next level thinking
I found this article to be very simple and concise in explaining what was once called total football. There are a few clubs that have the skilled players to pull this off this form of soccer. This is truly the coaches dream scenario. While this may not apply to the game we play, it is…
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