Articles tagged with "orange-slices-and-aspirin"
Recipe for a Team Disaster
By Sean | January 24th, 2009In the previous post, The Necessary Ingredients for a Great Team, I tried to point out a few of the vital character types a successful ...
The Necessary Ingredients for a Great Team
By Sean | January 22nd, 2009The difference between a great recreational football team and a mediocre one isn't necessarily about getting the right balance between offense and defense. It ...
Lessons from the Living Room Pitch
By Sean | January 19th, 2009All of us who play or coach the Beautiful Game have a special association with at least one pitch from our "careers". Maybe it ...
Indoor Soccer: Less Filling or Tastes Great?
By Sean | January 15th, 2009With the daylight hours scarce and the weather cold and foul, football fans here around the north 45th parallel briefly adjourn from the frozen/waterlogged/horribly overused ...
Goal Celebration Etiquette, Amateur-Style
By Sean | January 8th, 2009What's the first thing you do after you score? Do you have a pre-orchestrated goal celebration, like Nani's twisting back flips or even something simpler like ...
The Final Whistle on 2008
By Sean | December 31st, 2008The fourth official has just indicated that there will only be a few more hours left in 2008, which gives me just enough to time ...
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year...
By Sean | December 19th, 2008No, it isn't the FA Cup Final, nor the home opener at your local club's stadium. It isn't the Champions League semi-finals, nor your ...
A Very Weekend Warrior Thanksgiving
By Sean | November 25th, 2008For those of us in the United States, this Thursday is Thanksgiving...a time to gather with friends and family and acknowledge the good fortunes and ...
Seven Things Every Recreational Footballer Should Do
By Sean | November 17th, 2008For all of the rich variety in a typical football match--the movement off the ball, the strategy, the hard-fought challenges and the organization required to ...
F.C. (Insert Clever Team Name Here)
By Sean | November 4th, 2008"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2), Shakespeare "What's in a ...
All Done Except for the Pizza Party
By Sean | October 27th, 2008The last soccer practice of any season is a bittersweet occasion as far as I'm concerned, but perhaps even more so when you are coaching ...
Do You Got Game? A Weekend Warrior Quiz
By Sean | October 19th, 2008Sorry for the delay in posting last week. I spent an inordinate amount of my free time trying to perfect the appearance of "Virtual ...
"GOOOOOAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!!"
By Sean | October 13th, 2008Simply put, there is no greater moment in the drama of sports than the scoring of a football goal. A slam dunk in basketball? ...
You Can Go Home Again
By Sean | October 10th, 2008To be perfectly honest, kicking the football around again was probably the last thing on my mind when the ice gave way and I started ...
My First Soccer Coach was...Godzooky?
By Sean | October 5th, 2008I did not grow up in a soccer household. I don't believe that any of my relatives had ever played the game. I don't recall ...
"I'm a stranger here myself..."
By Sean | October 1st, 2008You know it is not an easy thing to be a soccer fan in America. You are a member of an almost fringe fraternity, ...
Sean
By Sean | September 29th, 2008In an alternate, parallel universe, I'm just finishing a glorious twenty-year soccer career that included clubs in the USL-1, the MLS, the Coca-Cola Championship--on loan, ...
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