Tryouts: Coping with Cuts
Posted by Tony DiCicco on Feb. 7, 7:35 p.m.
The most difficult part of coaching isn't dealing with losses, it's cutting or rejecting people from the team. ...
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'Players benefit from facing differing styles' (Q&A with PDA's Gerry McKeown)
Posted by Mike Woitalla on Feb. 5, 5:42 p.m.
New Jersey's PDA, one of the nation's top youth clubs for boys and girls, participates in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy and ECNL. It's also launching a residency program in partnership with St. Benedict's Prep School.
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The tricky challenge of managing routs
Posted by Mike Woitalla on Jan. 30, 4:28 p.m.
Our previous YouthSoccerInsider, "Preventing Lopsided Scores" by Randy Vogt, addressed the issue of how coaches should react when their team is routing an opponent. Vogt offered some excellent suggestions. But it's a tricky issue indeed.
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Preventing Lopsided Scores
Posted by Randy Vogt on Jan. 29, 12:53 a.m.
It's the youth soccer game that I cannot wait to end. And nobody seems to be having a good time. The game that I am writing about is the one with two teams of very different abilities playing one another and the better team scores a lot of goals.
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Coaching Kids to be Confident -- Q&A Josh Hodges (Legends FC)
Posted by Mike Woitalla on Jan. 23, 11:26 p.m.
When Josh Hodges finished his college playing career at Azusa Pacific a decade ago, he started a youth club in Glendora, an inland Southern California city of 50,000. Last year, three Legends FC girls teams reached the USYS National Championships and the U-15s, under Coach Rick Young, lifted the crown.
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Girls vs. Boys: Should they be refereed differently?
Posted by Randy Vogt on Jan. 22, 12:06 p.m.
Successful youth soccer referees had a panel discussion about whether there are any differences between officiating girls and boys. The overwhelming response was no. After all, whether girls or boys are playing soccer, the ball is round, the field is the same size and the rules are the same.
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'We're all in this together' -- U.S. Soccer Development Academy (Tony Lepore Q&A, Part 2)
Posted by Mike Woitalla on Jan. 19, 9:46 a.m.
While becoming the main avenue to the national team program, the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, launched in 2007, has also sparked controversy by introducing a 10-month season that prohibits its players from participating in high school ball.
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Progress in Triples -- U.S. Soccer Development Academy (Tony Lepore Q&A, Part 1)
Posted by Mike Woitalla on Jan. 17, 10:22 a.m.
The American youth soccer landscape changed dramatically when U.S. Soccer created the Development Academy in 2007. In Part 1 of our interview with Tony Lepore we asked the Development Academy Director of Scouting to explain how he believes it has improved the youth soccer experience for the USA's elite players.
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Girls vs. Boys: Should coaches communicate differently? (Part 4)
Posted by Mike Woitalla on Jan. 15, 2:58 a.m.
A few years ago, I asked a man with plenty of experience, and a fair amount of success, coaching both genders about whether he takes a different approach. He didn't want his quotes attributed, but after answering "Yes!" provided an example.
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Chris Wondolowski: The Making of a Star
Posted by Mike Woitalla on Jan. 8, 5:07 p.m.
Chris Wondolowski's father didn't get upset with him for breaking things kicking around in the house with his brothers. Or scold him for getting chased off golf courses for practicing soccer on the links. That's because his dad, John, was playing along.
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Girls vs. Boys: A Difference in Social Dynamics? (Part 3)
Posted by Mike Woitalla on Jan. 4, 8:39 p.m.
The YouthSoccerInsider continues its series on the differences between coaching boys and girls.
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A New Year's Resolution for a Healthy 2013
Posted by Dev Mishra on Jan. 3, 7:10 p.m.
In search of a New Year's resolution? This is a good time to make sure you've got the first-aid kit in order.
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Girls vs. Boys: 'It's about how the individual ticks' (Part 2)
Posted by Mike Woitalla on Jan. 2, 5:56 p.m.
In Part 2 of our series we speak with Minnesota coach Julie Eibensteiner, who has coached both genders at the youth and college level for more than a decade.
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Girls vs. Boys: Should they be coached differently? (Part 1)
Posted by Mike Woitalla on Dec. 20, 2:09 a.m.
The first time I heard the question, it took me by surprise.
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'Top players play on their own' (Q&A with Todd Saldana, Part 2)
Posted by Mike Woitalla on Dec. 16, 10:42 p.m.
Todd Saldana grew up playing youth soccer in Southern California in the 1970s, when his club coach was Sigi Schmid. Saldana played for the USA at the first U-20 World Cup it qualified for, in 1981, and signed pro out of high school with the old NASL's Los Angeles Aztecs, where his coaches included Rinus Michels and Claudio Coutinho.
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