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Laws & Order
By: Sean |
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One of the very basic things that I have always loved about the Beautiful Game–well, besides everything–is the fact that our sport is not governed by rules. It is governed by laws. For me, that subtle change in nomenclature somehow raises the importance and grandeur of our game beyond that of other sports. [...]
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Recipe for a Team Disaster
By: Sean | 6 Comments
In the previous post, The Necessary Ingredients for a Great Team, I tried to point out a few of the vital character types a successful recreational football team should have. The flip side to that, it was noted in the “Comments” section, would be to describe the players to avoid lest your team has [...]
Category: Orange Slices and AspirinThe Necessary Ingredients for a Great Team
By: Sean | 8 Comments
The difference between a great recreational football team and a mediocre one isn’t necessarily about getting the right balance between offense and defense. It isn’t always about hustle, either, because sometimes you can leave it all on the pitch and the result just doesn’t go your way. It isn’t totally about skill. [...]
Category: Orange Slices and AspirinLessons from the Living Room Pitch
By: Sean | 5 Comments
All of us who play or coach the Beautiful Game have a special association with at least one pitch from our “careers”. Maybe it is the primary school pitch where you scored your first goal as a U8 player. Perhaps it is a little chunk of a much larger field where your child [...]
Category: Orange Slices and AspirinIndoor Soccer: Less Filling or Tastes Great?
By: Sean | 10 Comments
With the daylight hours scarce and the weather cold and foul, football fans here around the north 45th parallel briefly adjourn from the frozen/waterlogged/horribly overused pitches and seek our fix in slightly warmer environs. Come winter, we go from the Beautiful Game to the Kind of Pretty But Has a Great Personality Game: [...]
Category: Orange Slices and AspirinGoal Celebration Etiquette, Amateur-Style
By: Sean | 12 Comments
What’s the first thing you do after you score?
Do you have a pre-orchestrated goal celebration, like Nani’s twisting back flips or even something simpler like Robbie Keane’s previous Tottenham-era cartwheel-and-machine-gun dance? (I haven’t noticed it yet at Merseyside, but I may just have missed it.) Do you just run wildly around the pitch [...]
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