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Types Of Coaches

As a young man, my soccer coach was an angry Italian. He spent most of the game yelling… in Italian I think, because I don’t remember a thing he said. I was busy. There were ten players on the other team trying to get the ball away from me while the ten players on my […]

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Monster Players from U12

So I got a text a couple weeks ago asking to see if Vitoria, my U12 team, could come play in the Frozen 4 Tournament in Ankeny. I thought, “That would be fun.” But now to find a team. I only needed 4 players, but when most of your team play basketball during the winter, […]

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Path to High School

My path to being a four year Letterman in High School was very different from how today’s players will get there. My path goes a little like this. Back in Ohio in the mid 70’s (yep, I am old), my mother signed my brother and I up for soccer. She figured it would be a […]

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Why Select Soccer

“If you pay more for it, it must be better” is true when you’re talking about sushi, but when it comes to your child’s soccer experience, there are lots more that comes into play than the age of the tuna.

Select soccer, generally defined, is soccer played between teams where the participants needed to try-out for the team and were selected. Based on this, the cost for participating on

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