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TCM Survey: Youth soccer players who don’t practice at home are more likely to quit
Results from The Coaching Manual's survey.
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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.
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.
How youth soccer tournament ranking systems leave Dallas Cup behind
The Dr. Pepper Dallas Cup is a hard nut to rank, by any standard other than pure gut feel, and is a good example of what's wrong with trying to do so. Both the industry leading GotSoccer Rankings and our attempts here at Soccer Wire horribly undervalue what is easily the most competitive tournament in the country, and potentially the world.
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.
