September 3, 2010

Find A Way To Win: Management Insights from Terry Michler

Book Cover for Find a Way to Win by Dan Coughlin

Description for Find a Way to Win: Management Insights from Terry Michler, America’s All-Time Winningest Soccer Coach by Dan Coughlin, with a foreword by world-renowned executive coach, Marshall Goldsmith, author of MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. Find a Way to Win is about achieving team excellence in business and in [...]

Wingers – A Look At How The Position Is Changing

The Guardian takes a look at changes in the role of the Winger over many years and the success that is now happening due to players like Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Arjen Robben. The Question: Why are so many wingers playing on the ‘wrong’ wings? The tactic of playing right-footers on the left wing, [...]

US Soccer And EA Sports Offer Interactive Training Tool For Youth

Press release – U.S. Soccer and EA SPORTS have teamed up to introduce EA SPORTS Interactive Training, a free, online tutorial that uses EA SPORTS technology to help train the soccer stars of the future. This interactive resource, available at www.EASPORTSinteractivetraining.com employs the EA SPORTS soccer game engine to illustrate U.S. Soccer’s coaching book “Best [...]

Eddie Horn, Jeff City Jays, On Umbro/West Ham United Youth Development Trip

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I’m delighted to offer a great report from Head Coach Eddie Horn, Jeff City Jays, on a Youth Development program trip he was able to take earlier this year to West Ham United. Sponsored by Umbro, he’s documented the trip for us via a Q&A format with his close friend Terry Michler, Head Coach of [...]

Integrity Athletic Performance And Physical Therapy

How are those 2009 resolutions holding up? Have you come up with any new ones based upon changes in your schedule or priorities? If you’re a player, are you competing at the level you had hoped you would entering the season? If they entail physical fitness and training at any level, I’d like to suggest [...]

Nixa Soccer Club Offering Coaching Clinic February 15th

Nixa Soccer Club will be hosting a coaching education session, Sunday, February 15th at 4:30-5:30. The session is titled ‘Individual and Team Defending In Youth Soccer’ and will be presented by local college and club coaches. The session will be held at the Nixa Main Street Fire Station, 711 N Main Street, Nixa. The fee [...]

My Country For A Left Back

A nice pointer from Glendale Soccer, this story from the New York Times More than a decade has passed, coaches have changed and plenty of rocks have been turned over. But as the United States begins to focus on the 2010 World Cup, it still has not solved a nearly 15-year-old riddle: Why can’t anyone [...]

Xmas Countdown Is 7 Days – I’m Here To Help

Hey Dad, still looking for ideas for your young athletes? How about the gift of training, as offered by Cory Carr at Integrity Athletics and Physical Therapy (APPT). I have a soft spot for Integrity APPT as a key sponsor of this site but I can also admit to being a fan of Cory’s work [...]

Introducing – Integrity Athletic Performance and PT

I would like to take a moment and say thank you to my newest sponsor, Integrity Athletic Performance and Physical Therapy (IntegrityAPPT.com). The newest service offering of Integrity Healthcare, APPT is run by Cory Carr. From the website: Integrity Athletic Performance & Physical Therapy (IAPPT) offers athletes of every sport, age and skill level the [...]

This And That

Work, and The Magazine, are requiring plenty of my time these days folks so I apologize for the lack of diversity on the site the past week or so. I love the High School game but there’s more to be aware of and enjoy out there. I’ll be back to normal programming next week, including [...]