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Zinedine Zidane goal (Real Madrid v Sevilla)

2002-2003

Soccer Conditioning – The 6 Elements

Soccer is an athletic sport and it has become more than a game that awards the player with the best ball skills. Improving your body and your physical traits, as well as chiseling your physical weaknesses is extremely important in modern day soccer and the field that tends to all these aspects is called soccer conditioning.

Soccer conditioning is actually made up of 6 concepts, or sub-sections if you will. The warm up, strength, power, endurance, agility and speed training are key components to a full soccer conditioning program. I won’t go into too much detail about them with the article at hand, but what I do want to do is give you a glimpse on what each component is, how it benefits you as a soccer player (or your players if you’re a coach) and how it can be improved.

-Soccer Warm Ups

At the very beginning of soccer, players would warm up before a match individually and rather disorganized. Besides of a few common warm-up and stretching exercises, they depended on the first minutes of play to get them into the right condition to play at full potential.

Nowadays, warming up is given increasingly higher importance, because it helps a soccer player in two ways: it protects you from muscle injuries such as strains and ruptures and it brings you to your maximum playing ability as the match or training session begins. A third benefit comes from specific stretching exercises, that make you more agile and flexible, which is a great advantage for a soccer player in today’s lightning fast game.

-Soccer Strength

Strength is a crucial factor in soccer, since it affects several abilities used during a match, such as jumping, shooting, dribbling, shielding, balance, tackling or marking. Actually, strength is probably the only conditioning key component that is useful in the same measure for all players, regardless of their position on the pitch. Shielding is often confused with power, but as you will see below there’s a difference between the two.

-Soccer Power

Power can refer to one of three things in soccer: the power of your shots, the power of your headers and the power of your throws. Although strength does have an important role in determining these three attributes, you also need to have the right technique to make them work. So power is a combination between strength and technique.

For example, when kicking a ball towards the goal, strength will work towards a more powerful shot if you have trained out your abs, lower back and leg muscles, but at the same time you’ll need to kick the ball perfectly if you want to achieve a truly powerful and accurate shot. As a tire commercial once put it…power is nothing without control.

-Soccer Endurance

There are two types of endurance, short and long range. Short endurance refers to your ability to sprint longer and long endurance is more general and it helps you pull off an entire match. It’s important to know that endurance isn’t just about being able to run for the ball longer in a match. If you get tired, you will also have a harder time focusing on the game, jumping, tackling, dribbling, finishing and so forth. So having good endurance can help you get the best out of yourself for longer periods of time.

Note that it’s very hard to get to a level where you can run tirelessly even in the latter stages of the match. Even professional soccer players that are part of the most powerful clubs in the World tend to get tired around the 80th minute, or earlier if they played a high tempo game.

-Soccer Agility

Agility can help you on several levels in soccer. Goalkeepers will have better reflexes and they’ll be able to get to high balls quicker if they’re more agile. Defenders will be harder to dribble and their tackles will be more accurate and clean with the right level of agility. Midfielders can dribble with ease if they’re agile and strikers work well around their quickness in order to get in front of the defender and finish on crosses, or dribble their way to goal when possible.

-Soccer Speed

Just like with the power-strength confusion, some people tend to put an equality sign in between speed and agility. Whereas agility refers to quick reactions, speed refers to running at full throttle, on a longer distance. Actually, speed has two components: acceleration and top speed.

Acceleration lasts from the moment you start the sprint, to a second or two before you can reach top speed. Indeed, agility plays a crucial role in acceleration, but has little to do with top speed. So focusing on agility exercises may improve your acceleration, but your top speed is difficult to improve, since it’s determined by a formula involving your lower body strength, natural constitution and running technique.

Soccer: Scoring a College Sports Scholarship

Gifted students talented in soccer and have competitive high school soccer scores often apply for a college scholarship. A college sports scholarship is a form of in which schools admit applicants based on their athletic abilities. The applicants are expected to perform well on the school team, and at the same time maintain a fair academic standing. These scholarships are quite common in the United States. In other countries, however, such opportunities are rare, if not totally non-existent. They are largely regulated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The NCAA sets the guidelines by which the students are expected to perform, on what particular basis they can be admitted as well as the standards by which schools can grant a college sports scholarship.

Soccer is a sport played between two teams and is thought by many to be the most popular sport in the world. Each team has eleven players. It is played on a rectangular field of grass or turf, with a goal set up at the opposite ends. The object of the game is to bring the ball into the opposing goal. Most people know that soccer prohibits players from holding the ball. However, the rule officially states that a hand ball includes using any part of the body from the tips of the fingers to the shoulder. The key is to remember that a player cannot handle the ball. Thus, when a ball is kicked and hits a player’s hand or arm, must use his own judgment to determine whether it was an accidental contact or a deliberate violation of the rule. Even goalies are at times not allowed to use their hands. A goalkeeper cannot pick up a pass directly coming from one his team. He must also use his feet.

Some exceptional students who have enough talent, with impressive high school soccer scores, attract the attention of college coaches while still in high school. Others, however, will have to make a greater endeavor in order to beat the competition. There are thousands of students involved in high school varsity programs. Fortunately, the Internet has proved to be a useful venue for both athletes and coaches looking for promising players with acceptable high school soccer scores. D1Athletes is an online community wherein athletes and coaches alike can share and exchange information they need. D1Athletes offers them a place to build an online presence and gain important public exposure.

Celebrity Tattoos: Victoria “Posh” Beckham

Since today is Wednesday and it is time for another celebritytattoo post I thought I would go with former Spice Girl Victoria “Posh” Beckham. One of the reason I decided to do her today is because of the post I wrote yesterday about tattoos being trashy or sexy. Now it should be no surprise to people that Victoria has several tattoos and they are in noticeable places. But in my opinion the way she carries herself and they attitude she has her tattoos do not look trashy to me at all.

Victoria has five tattoos as of now and living up to her Posh nickname she has kept them classy if that makes any sense. Her first tattoo is on her lower back and it is five stars. The five starts represent her, David and their three sons, Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz.

Her second tattoo is going down the back of her neck. Victoria and David got these matching tattoos on their 6th wedding anniversary.  It is in Hebrew and is from the Song of Songs 2:16: I am my beloved and my beloved is mine. Which is you remember Christina Aguilera has this same tattoo.

The third tattoo that Victoria has is MAY 08 1997 in roman numerals tattooed on her wrist. Strangely enough this is the first time the two had sex and Victoria thought it was a great event in her life to be remembered.

The forth  tattoo she has is very self explanatory it is the DB on her wrist which stands for her husband David Beckham.

The last and newest of Victoria’s tattoos is located on her wrist under the Roman numerals. However, no one is quit sure what is says. To me looks like it could say De Integra, De Enegra or De Intopa.

Your Tattoo Friend

Ashley

Best soccer skills and goals ever

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Soccer: China officials questioned in match-fixing probe

Soccer: China officials questioned in match-fixing probe
BEIJING — Investigators are questioning three leading Chinese soccer officials about allegations of match fixing, state media reported Thursday.

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The World Cup 2010 South Africa

The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international football competition contested by the men’s national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport’s global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, because of World War II.

The last fifa world cup in 2006 was a great tournament took place in Germany and all nations participated well and world cup soccer reached new heights. The 2006 World Cup trophy was won by Italy. Italy beat France on penalties after the match finished 1–1 after extra time. Zinedine Zidane was sent off in his last ever match, for a headbutt on Marco Materazzi.

Now in 2010, again the football teams will meat each other after qualifying for the world cup in South Africa by playing the Qualifying rounds. Almost all the 32 teams are finalized encluding:

Hosts South Africa African Qualifying Group Ghana Ivory Coast Asian Qualifying Group Japan Australia South Korea North Korea European Qualifying Group England Netherlands Spain Serbia Italy Denmark Germany South American Qualifying Group Brazil Paraguay Chile North and Central America Qualifying Group United States Mexico

The preparations of the World Cup are going on these days, An inspection tour, including members of the Local Organising Committee and over 50 operational experts from FIFA have recently completed a tour of South Africa. During the tour, they visited the five newly built 2010 stadiums in Cape Town’s Green Point Stadium, Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium, Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth’s Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Nelspruit’s Mbombela Stadium, Polokwane’s Peter Mokaba Stadium and Johannesburg’s Soccer City Stadium, and they are quite satisfied with the management in South Africa.

Ticket4Football.com is the most specialized and fully dedicated football ticket website offering the best place to buy football tickets for all the football matches because you can buy your favorite World Cup tickets of your favorite football match/team online through a secured and guaranteed online booking system.

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