Category: Coaching
Brazilian Futebol Academy (BFA) Summer Soccer Camps
Do you want to slice and dice the opposition defense? Can you control the ball in tight spaces and execute immaculate technique while under pressure? [...]
Simply Soccer International Camps
Each summer for the past fifteen years, sweat, smiles, and laughter have dominated the fields of Embry Riddle University at Simply Soccer Internationa [...]
The Four Types of Player Bullying – Scenario Three – Parent Proxy Bullying
I have a friend out West who runs a large, very competitive sports club. The children and parents in this club can be quite intense. He struggles re [...]
The Four Types of Player Bullying – Scenario Two – Coach-Side Vs Player-Side
This is the second part in a four part series on player-based bullying in youth sport.
"Wait 'til we get to the locker room!" He hissed, threatenin [...]
The Four Types of Player Bullying – Scenario One – Strong versus Weak
Chasing the balls that are punted into the woods.
Carrying the gear bags.
Cleaning up the messy locker room.
Eating all the peppers on the [...]
Don’t Skip the Warm Up!!
If you are guilty of skipping a warmup in the past and jumping straight into training please raise your hand.
Mine is being held up as we speak. I [...]
Why You Should Drop Your New Years Resolution NOW!
I have been in the gym business for 8 years. Right around the last week in December is when I start to hear it. I hear from everyone and everywhere. I [...]
This is our culture: New Year, New Wishes
A season's worth of incidents. A lifetime of sins committed for the sake of winning. These are all the things I witnessed:
• A Board member from a [...]
San Diego’s Very Own Parisi Speed School
Alex Morgan, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Lionel Messi, Eden Hazard, Sergio Aguero Raheem Stirling.
What do they all have in common?
SPEED.
Each [...]
We are going to be good at throw-ins and goal kicks: Part II
Scaffolding and the Zone of Proximal Development
In education, we have learned to scaffold the learning process for our children in order to create [...]