Posts by Sporting Slammers FC

JUNE 2021 — Kate Wiesner (SFC ’19) featured as the USWNT U23s claimed a 4-1 victory against India and a 3-0 shutout against Sweden.

I look at all these changes and I think about them, and yet I always see football for what it is and what it should be: a match where anything can happen; the players; ninety minutes; fantastic moves; an element of luck, talent, courage, a touch of magic; and, for those who are watching these…

Having no jerseys was invaluable because it forced us to look up and develop our peripheral vision, to acquire vision that was deeper. Having no coach, when young, was also invaluable for allowing us to develop a game based on taking initiative. Have we perhaps fallen into the opposite extreme today?

The coach’s role is to make the player understand everything that serves the interest of the game. To do this he must speak to the child within each player, to the adolescent he was & to the adult he is

Passing the ball is communicating with another person; it’s being in the service of another person. It’s crucial. For the pass to be a good one, the player has to put himself in the position of the person who’s going to receive it. It’s an act of intelligence and generosity, what I call technical empathy.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that you know you would not have brought out of yourself. He makes you discover something interesting in your life. If…

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