If you're watching a game on TV, and a team stages a second-half comeback, you'll likely hear the commentators speculating on what brilliance the coach imparted during halftime, on what motivational technique he used.

I have seen many soccer games when the referee made an important call -- sometimes correctly, sometimes incorrectly -- and loud dissent followed since the ref was 40 yards away from the play.

Rachel Buehler suffered ACL injuries, in separate incidents, in both knees, as a teenager. Now 27, she has won two Olympic gold medals, a U-20 World Cup, a WPS title (Gold Pride), and has played 99 games for the USA, including five at the last World Cup. We asked Buehler, who starred at Stanford University, to provide some advice for young players faced with the challenge of rehabilitating from injuries.

Imagine if cookbook publishing in the USA had the same approach that the soccer coaching industry has had for decades. You'd find mainly Northern European recipes at your Barnes & Noble. And you'd be a pretty limited chef.

It seems we are bombarded with new information about concussions on an almost daily basis, and here is even more information to cause us to stop and consider the best time to return a young athlete to play.

Does this sound familiar? You cruise through the first few agenda items and all of a sudden the entire room is talking about an incident that happened in one of the travel or recreation games over the weekend. A couple of interruptions like this and before you know it the meeting runs an hour later than anticipated and you get very little accomplished.

The most difficult part of coaching isn't dealing with losses, it's cutting or rejecting people from the team. ...

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.