Articles tagged with "recreational-soccer"
Countdown to a New Season
By Sean | September 11th, 200910 ...weeks since the last match of your previous recreational soccer season. Your weekends have been curiously devoid of anticipation and the local ...
Heaven or Las Vegas: Another CYOE Post
By Sean | August 29th, 2009It has been a while since we last had a Weekend Warrior "Choose Your Own Ending" Post, Seanny's very own rip-off of one his favorite ...
"And This One Time, At Soccer Camp..."
By Sean | August 12th, 2009Nothing says August to me like soccer camp. All of the local soccer fields start to take on new life after months of relative neglect. ...
Pro for an Afternoon, Part II
By Sean | August 4th, 2009And now, Weekend Warriors, the exciting (for me, at least, but I'm also totally biased!) conclusion to "Pro for an Afternoon"! If you missed ...
Pro for an Afternoon, Part I
By Sean | July 30th, 2009First off, thanks to everyone who offered supportive comments and emails over the last month. It's been a rough go, but your condolences and ...
More Than Just Another Post
By Sean | July 12th, 2009In my last post, I promised you an epic report from the Portland Timbers Father's Day Fantasy Camp. Even if you aren't a Portland ...
What I Did/Am Doing/Will Do During My Summer Vacation: An Ironically Long Title for the Shortest Weekend Warrior Post Ever
By Sean | June 25th, 2009So...summer is here in my neck of the woods. School is out, working folks are due to take their two weeks off, and the ...
Happy Father's Day
By Sean | June 20th, 2009Tomorrow is Father's Day. I know this to be true because Hallmark Greetings has inundated my local department store with hundreds thousands of cards ...
Between the Sticks
By Sean | June 5th, 2009If you play soccer long enough, it is inevitable. You get to the pitch, you stretch a little, do some juggles--the usual routine. ...
Pitch Imperfect
By Sean | May 29th, 2009You've probably seen this picture of a "unique" soccer pitch before: I see it pop up in an email once every year or two. It ...
That's Gonna Leave A Mark
By Sean | May 22nd, 2009"Oh, no! Did you do that playing soccer?" As we recreational football players get older, I think that we can agree that many most injuries ...
The Shirt Off My Back
By Sean | May 4th, 2009As an American soccer fan, you have a limited number of ways of expressing your love of the Beautiful Game and your allegiance to your ...
The Weekend Warrior's Infinite Playlist
By Sean | April 17th, 2009I could use your help with something. I like to get psyched up before a match with some ass-kicking, motivational songs. I'm sure many of ...
The Eureka Moment
By Sean | April 14th, 2009A new spring U-9 soccer season is underway and the local park is choked with boys and girls. The air is alive with whistle ...
The View From the "Cheap" Seats
By Sean | April 6th, 2009Last summer my brother and I were traveling in England and high on the "must see" list was attending some professional football matches. Watching ...
Turf War! (Kind of!)
By Sean | March 30th, 2009As the weather improves, more and more people in the Pacific Northwest start to migrate out of doors and try to shake off the winter ...
Weekend Warrior Confessional
By Sean | March 22nd, 2009A couple of important things happened last Friday. Portland, Oregon was awarded a Major League Soccer franchise for the 2011 season and to local ...
You and Me Against the World
By Sean | March 17th, 2009"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do Two can be as bad as one It's the loneliest number since the number one..." So sang Three Dog ...
The Lord of the Ringers
By Sean | March 12th, 2009For the vast majority of us recreational footballers, our weekend matches are played for the love of the game. I would guess that most ...
Daddy Has a F#%*!g Potty Mouth
By Sean | March 7th, 2009During the course of a typical recreational football match, something will invariably not go your team's way. You'll give away possession in front of ...
Life in the Fast Lane
By Sean | March 3rd, 2009The title of this post may be a little misleading. You may read it and assume that this is going to be about the ...
My Football Bucket List
By Sean | February 26th, 2009Curse you both, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. You may be giants--nay, legends of American cinema--but I have a grievance to air with both of you. ...
The Five Stages of Soccer Grief
By Sean | February 21st, 2009Having been on the tragic side of more soccer routs than I care to admit, I noticed a familiar pattern to the losing side's collective ...
Meeting Timber Jim
By Sean | February 17th, 2009Be honest: It's kind of a big deal when you get to meet famous people. I think most of us get a little ...
The Wizard of O.G.
By Sean | February 10th, 2009If scoring a goal in a soccer match is the epitome of all that is good and right and glorious in the Beautiful Game, the ...
The Num83rs Game
By Sean | February 7th, 2009It is interesting to try and distill the essence of a football match or season down to a collection of statistics. We look at ...
The Wall: A CYOE* Post
By Sean | February 2nd, 2009* "Choose Your Own Ending" Do you remember the "Choose Your Own Adventure" set of books from the early to mid-Eighties? If you are pushing ...
Laws & Order
By Sean | January 27th, 2009One of the very basic things that I have always loved about the Beautiful Game--well, besides everything--is the fact that our sport is not governed ...
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 ...
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