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Injury prevention made easy: Have your players self-monitor their training readiness
All coaches would like to have more days that click because that’s what will help them toward peak performance, but we are leery of pushing past the peak. Overtraining leads to fatigue and fatigue, poorly managed, likely leads to injury. How can we fine-tune our training? Dr. Wendy LeBolt has some highly useful tips for coaches.
The business, and politics, of US Youth Soccer regional tournaments
The comments are still rolling in on our expertly reported piece about former Region I Director Bob Palmeiro’s resignation (and some of the reasons behind it). Must of the discussion directly addresses the oddity at which the nation’s biggest US Youth Soccer region chooses field venues for its championship finals, and justly so....
Opinion: Why on earth is USWNT playing friendlies during NWSL playoffs?
Has something trickled into the water supply at Soccer House? Forgive us for being so forward, but some of the decisions — at least when it comes to the women’s game — coming out of the stately Chicago mansion that houses the offices of the U.S. Soccer Federation have us wondering if a few of the inhabitants have lost their minds
O’Sullivan: How to raise a lion chaser
Why is it that some players see obstacles and problems as opportunities, while others focus on the negative consequences of failure? John O'Sullivan returns with a riveting look at the power of the "lion chaser" personality -- and how North American soccer can grow more of them.
Money, Merritt, Morgan and the NWSL playoffs
Just how important are Alex Morgan and the Portland Thorns to the NWSL's financial outlook? The monetary implications of the league's lycra-tight playoff race are the subject of the debut post on SoccerWire's brand-new, behind-the-scenes blog, Heard On the Wire.
PWSI product Annah Lindberg goes her own route in rise to success
PWSI product Annah Lindberg did not play up at a young age. Instead, along with the help of her family, she let her rise to soccer success happen naturally and patiently.
A higher purpose than winning: How to measure player development without the final score
Changing the Game Project founder John O'Sullivan explains how best to turn the focus away from the scoreboard in youth sports by turning to a "higher purpose" and emphasizing having fun and getting better.
Q&A with Horst Eckel, 1954 World Cup champion with West Germany
SoccerWire.com recently had the opportunity for a short interview with Horst Eckel, one of two surviving members of the 1954 West Germany World Cup squad.
