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When should your soccer kid ‘play up’? A conversation with youth national teamer Frankie Tagliaferri
"Playing up," the common phrase for moving talented players into older age groups, is one of the most influential topics in youth soccer at the moment. This week SoccerWire's Dr. Wendy LeBolt delves into the issue to take a look at the age-old roots of "playing up," and talks to one talented young player who is using the practice to fuel her U.S. Women's National Team dreams.
RIP: Dan Borislow, the strange angel of Women’s Professional Soccer (1961-2014)
Anyone who's navigated enough twists and turns in either the world of professional sports or American soccer eventually discovers that the personalities involved tend to be complex, and true heroes are few and far between. Dan Borislow was no hero, and he was certainly complex...
LeBolt: The feeble, sickening art of flopping is getting out of hand
If you don’t know how to dive “properly” there are blogs and websites that will teach you proper diving technique. Frankly, this sickens me, but you can find help to learn how to do anything on the internet these days. Your choice. It’s a free country.
LeBolt: For America to win a World Cup, we have to do the one thing we can’t bear
The problem: we don't handle losing well. The solution: we need to let our kids lose. As hard as it is, we must let them fail, without excuses and without shifting blame.
LeBolt: Open letter to Ann Coulter
As I have never met Ms Coulter, I thought I'd give her the benefit of the doubt and presume ignorance. But ignorance gone to seed is a very dangerous thing. I thought she might need some clarification and enlightement, so I wrote her a letter.
Dougherty: Ann Coulter, you have it wrong
There are many things that may indicate national moral decay – evening cable television programs, Internet pornography, Washington politics, to name a few. But soccer certainly isn’t one of them.
World Cup Competition: The best and worst we can be
How can competition bring out the absolute worst in some and the best in others? One head butts for a red card. The other heads it in for a winner. One crumples untouched to draw the foul. The other stands his ground in spite of the mugging. One bites and… What’s going on?
Youth Coaches: How to keep from raising the next Luis Suarez
Youth coaches, it is not our responsibility how a player enters our team or program, but it is most definitely our responsibility what kind of person a player is when he or she leaves.
