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Soccer Resilience: Five Tips to Help Players Mentally Recover Through Injury
Advice on the mental side of injury recovery.
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LeBolt: How setting the wrong goals leads to failure
Both in soccer and in life, lots of people make new year’s resolutions. They look at where they have failed, identify what needs work and come January 1, they’re gonna get to it. Something about the clean slate of a new year brings hope that this year will be different. Rarely is this successful, explains Dr. Wendy LeBolt. Here's why.
Coaching to Win: Here’s how to do it at practice, even all winter long
Now that the fall season is complete and winter weather is descending, it’s finally time for a holiday break, a time to recover and re-assess. After all, too much of anything, even a good thing, is not good for us. And if it’s not going well, it can be really, really bad for us. If you could make a wish, maybe ask Santa Claus, for a few things for your team this year, what would they be?
Want to encourage free play? Try ‘Make Your Own Ball Night!’
Featured SoccerWire.com columnist John O'Sullivan shares a great story about how one youth club in Indiana is teaching it's youngest academy players a lot more than how to kick, dribble, pass, and shoot.
Is social media ruining your youth sports experience?
Sports parenting guru John O'Sullivan explains the detriment of the "keeping up with the Joneses" mentality with a video on young athletes in a social media world.
LeBolt: Julie Foudy offers an alternative for our childrens’ soccer development
What if the best way to get your kid on the U.S. National Team was to not attend their games? Or allow them to quit soccer for a season or two on a whim? Both of these techniques worked for Julie Foudy, notes Dr. Wendy LeBolt -- might they work for modern youth players as well?
How to help your kid succeed at soccer, even if you know nothing about the sport
Dr. Wendy LeBolt gives some helpful tips to soccer parents who don't know the game.
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.
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.
