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Soccer Resilience: Five Tips to Help Players Mentally Recover Through Injury
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Five myths surrounding National Letter of Intent ‘Signing Day’
Best selling author Dan Blank weighs in to try and straighten out some of the biggest myths surrounding the biggest celebration day in the college soccer recruiting process - AKA "Signing Day". While there's nothing wrong with celebrations and Facebook photos, for those who really sharpen their attention to details may be surprised at some of these - including some head coaches of college programs themselves!
Dure: NSCAA Convention a great time for much needed national youth soccer discussion
SoccerWire.com's Beau Dure outlines some of the forums he'll be attending on youth soccer issues today, saying it’s about time we youth soccer coaches, administrators, journalists and so forth gathered for the NSCAA Convention. We need to talk.
LeBolt: Taking the fear out of post-concussion syndrome
With concussions and other head injury issues dominating soccer headlines, Dr. Wendy LeBolt sought out someone with a lot of experience evaluating and working with kids and their brains: Dr. Elizabeth Delasobera, Director of Sports Medicine for Medstar Emergency Physicians, an assistant professor at Georgetown University Hospital who also sees patients in her clinic in McLean, Virginia. Their conversation offers useful and important information for parents.
Is heading the culprit in concussions? The mistake we are making
The soon-to-be-released movie "Concussion," starring Will Smith as Dr. Bennet Omalu, the Nigerian physician who first identified Chronic Traumatic Encephalography, has brought wider attention to the smoldering issue of concussions in soccer and other youth sports. But Dr. Wendy LeBolt wonders if we're missing the forest for the trees on this topic.
Blank: 17 tips on college soccer scholarships
Former University of Georgia coach Dan Blank, now a leading author on college soccer and college recruiting, provides 17 tips on how to navigate the complex arena of athletic scholarships.
When Passion Turns to Punches: Managing the player who’s too hot to handle
Washington Nationals baseball star Bryce Harper and teammate Jonathan Papelbon got into an ugly scrap in their team's dugout this week, embarrassing their club and earning both players suspensions. The incident raises some interesting issues with "hard to handle" players, writes Dr. Wendy LeBolt. How can we draw the best out of ‘em without breaking their spirit?
COACHING: Teaching the techniques Robert Lewandowski used to score five goals in 9 minutes
Robert Lewandowski used the full arsenal of striker techniques to score five goals in nine minutes last week. How to teach the techniques he used is the first of our new series of coaching advice provided by Yuri Bogdanov, founder of ClubSportal.
Nutrition, body composition and health: Talking points with soccer teens
Coaches boldly tackle a litany of challenges head on. But there’s one thing most of them won’t touch: the “nutrition talk." We have to name this issue in order to rid it of its stigma, bring it out of hiding and make it part of our regular conversation with all of our athletes, writes Dr. Wendy LeBolt.
