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Here are 8 useful ways Soccer Coaches can use Facebook to organize their soccer team:

Organizational

List Events
Take twenty minutes and setup the game schedule and practice schedule for the season. From there, you can easily make changes as they occur, but you will create full knowledge of what, when and where. Pretty simple.

Conduct Polls
Need to make practice changes, organize a team BBQ or figure out a time that works best for everyone. Conduct a quick and easy poll.

Weather Updates
There’s nothing more frustrating than trying to make sure everyone shows up when you have practice. Sprinkle in a little bit of bad weather and everyone starts freaking out, playing the role of Al Roker and driving you crazy. “Are we having practice today?” Simple answer: One line post, “Practice is on!”

Organize Rides
We’ve all faced that moment where we realize we simply won’t get there in time to take little Johnny to practice. Wouldn’t it be brilliant to simply post one note and find him a ride? Yes, you can do that here too.

Promote Team Growth

Match Recap
Communicating how your team performed isn’t always best directly after a game. Players are tied and distracted. Add-in limited practice time and posting a post-game match recap can be an effective way of keeping everyone up to speed. You should always identify the game’s wins, losses and chances for improvement.

Share your Session
Get a head start on your training session by sharing what you’re going to be doing for the day. You can avoid all those, “What are we going to do today?” questions that stunt practices and are just plain annoying. And, your players can show up with peace of mind what you want to accomplish and move efficiently from soccer exercise to exercise.

Get Your Players in the Backyard
No matter what we do as coaches, our true role is to ignite the fire and passion in our players. With limited amounts of practice time, the teal development happens in the backyard. If you make soccer fun, kids will choose to go into the backyard with their ball and practice. Here’s a great place where you can post “Backyard Player Challenges.” Oh, and make sure you check to see which players have completed the work at the start of every practice – ask to see what they worked on!

Build Camaraderie

Share Pictures
Camaraderie on a team is paramount to success. And, nothing can build camaraderie like sharing pictures of your players. Parents love seeing game day pictures of their players and this is a perfect forum to share those memories.

Encourage Teammates
Parents, players and coaches can congratulate and encourage teammates with open comments. Imagine allowing people to post their positive feedback after your post-game match report.

While Facebook is largely a leisure time pursuit, it can be an effective hub of communication for your soccer team. Get your team ready for success and setup your own Facebook group for your soccer team!

For information about buying soccer uniforms, please visit Totally Soccer.

For information about buying soccer uniforms, please visit Totally Soccer.

Ask the Coach

The goal of Totally Soccer has always been to help “create the greatest opportunities for soccer players.” We do that by giving back to the community and executing on our mission: to be easier, cheaper and faster than the competition. If you don’t have to worry about your soccer uniforms, you can focus your efforts on creating those opportunities.

With out systems fully in tact and our track record of success, we even rolled out, “Guaranteed by Game Day.” Totally Soccer is the only soccer company to guarantee your soccer uniforms by game day. Does that give you confidence in selecting us to make the process simple and easy?

The next level where we can support the game is by providing coaching education to both coaches and parents. In community-based soccer clubs, an area where clubs can improve is coaching education. Unfortunately, there simply aren’t enough volunteer hours in a day and after setting up teams, fields, finding coaches and all the other league administration, educating our coaches falls by the wayside. Even in my home club, where we regularly turn out conference, regional and state championship teams, we fail miserably at coaching education. Now, could you imagine sending in a parent to teach kindergarten without any training? Do you think you would create the best opportunities for your players? Collectively, we certainly can do better.

To further our mission of supporting the soccer community, we created Soccer Classroom. Soccer Classroom is dedicated to helping volunteer soccer coaching find fun, inspiring and positive ways to develop youth soccer players. By using a “player-first” mentality, we help coaches see the big picture of player development which leads to long-term success on the field. Here is a recent interview I did with Bob Eres from Pro Sports Broadcasting:

If you need information about coaching soccer, holding a Pre-Season meeting, developing a coaching philosophy, soccer skills and soccer drills, then Soccer Classroom is the place for you. Go check it out!

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The Soccer Dive (Photo: YouTube)

In a well-timed release with the Women’s World Cup, scientists have found that men are more theatrical than women when it comes to “injuries” in soccer. In a “toughness first” mentality throughout the United States, perhaps this is reason why soccer has so much trouble catching as people watch world soccer. I mean, fair enough, if this is your only venue for watching the beautiful game, then I would probably make fun of us “soccer guys” too.

What do you think?

Here’s the original article from the Metro:

It’s official – men are the worst play actors when it comes to football. Sports scientists claim it actually takes men 30 seconds longer than women to get up after they’ve been fouled because they’re looking for attention.

Players such as Cristiano Ronaldo – known for theatrics when he drops to the ground in a flash after a ‘love tap’ – do it because they thrive on the buzz they get from a big match, the study found.
Professor Martin Lames, who undertook the study comparing male and female footballers in Munich, explained his findings as being down to publicity.
‘Men’s football generally pulls in more spectators and receives greater media coverage,’ he said.
‘For men, the thought of taking centre-stage is much more pronounced than for women, where the game itself is paramount.’
Professor Lames’ colleague Matle Siegle then went on to confirm that diving and play-acting was typical behaviour of male footballing drama queens.
‘Men also use interruptions tactically. When they are in the lead, players take their time with injuries, Mr Siegle said.
‘They do it much more so than if the score is even, or when the other side is leading. This behaviour is not observed in women’s football.’

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One aspect I liked about the video is about the mental state of believing you can achieve something is the first step to achieving the impossible. No matter whether this is a hoax or not, this is a lasting lesson in achieving the impossible.

What are you doing to help your team achieve the impossible?

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For information about buying soccer uniforms, please visit Totally Soccer.

For information about buying soccer uniforms, please visit Totally Soccer.

For information about buying soccer uniforms, please visit Totally Soccer.