Soccer drills don’t involve competition which creates pressure and forces players to play fast. Drills can actually train players to play slow because players are learning skills at a speed that is slower than they will need in a game and without pressure. It is one thing to learn to do a skill slowly and without pressure and very different to try to do it fast while under pressure. This wi...

Image via Wikipedia Summer is finally here in the Midwest.  I Started off a beautiful Saturday morning with a Coaches game.  Every season after the rec league ends our club has a game with just the coaches.  The kids love the idea and it is a lot of fun (especially when you score four goals!).  But boy, am I out of shape.  Out of soccer shape that is.  I religiously get 150 minutes p...