Monthly Archives: September 2004

We have a long way to go in the United States before we can crow about the level of participation in the sport of soccer. The article on the US Soccer Players web site sounds like good news – and it is mostly – but it’s not good enough. Basketball can boast of 36,583,000 players […]

At some point all of us have to make a decision regarding how we will spend our time. At least at this level everyone is truly created equal – each of us gets the same 24 hours in a day. Some people have a hard time with this lesson. We fill our time with low […]

I have a good relationship with a local coaching colleague. He and I get together everyone now and then and share stories. I coach for a smaller club and he coaches for a nearby (much) larger club. He lives in a different world then I do. My club serves the local community – a community […]

The Soccer Coach List is the Grandfather of all online coaching resources. It’s really hard to overstate the value this list can add to any coach’s toolbox. The community is extremely large and varied. College coaches, high school coaches, club coaches, everyone it seems plays in this community and I wanted to give the publisher […]

We’ve all said it before but on this one occasion I decided to act on the thought. It was our monthly club meeting and the coaches were gathered to conduct the ugly administrative tasks necessary to operate a youth soccer club. The conversation had turned to how to retain players in the club. “The grass […]