Archive for August, 2008

Warm-up for Soccer Training and Games

Friday, August 29th, 2008

To improve your soccer coaching skills, you’ve got to make sure your players give their bodies the chance to perform at their best. That means sensible warm-ups and cool-down, before and after a match or a soccer training session of any kind.
Soccer is a demanding physical game. So providing encouragement and instruction and making sure your players do adequate physical preparation is one of the most important responsibilities in soccer coaching.

The warm up is a process to increase awareness, improve co-ordination, improve elasticity and contractibility of muscles, and increase the efficiency of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems.

Soccer training and blood flow to muscles

In a body at rest, the blood flow to the muscles is comparatively low, and the majority of the small blood vessels (capillaries) supplying them are closed. When soccer training or playing begins, the blood flow in the exercising muscles increases markedly, as the capillaries open.

At rest, 15-20% of the blood flow supplies muscles, while after 10-12 minutes of all-round exercise, the percentage of blood flow supplying the muscles rises to 70-75%. A muscle can only achieve maximum performance when all its blood vessels are functional.

Physical work increases the energy output and temperature of the muscle, this in turn leads to improved co-ordination with less likelihood of injury.
A warm-up therefore prepares the body by:
• raising muscle temperature towards an optimum level for performance
• enabling metabolic processes in cells to proceed at higher rates
• and allowing nerve messages to travel faster

Why warm-up is important in soccer coaching

Reasons for conducting a thorough warm-up prior to soccer training and games include the following:

• To increase blood flow to muscular tissue
• To increase muscle temperature
• To reduce muscle tightness
• To elevate body temperature
• To stimulate reflex activity related to balance and co-ordination
• To achieve full joint mobility in the specific joints involved in the activity
• To achieve full soft tissue extensibility – muscles, tendons, ligaments
• To enhance the functioning of the neuromuscular system
• To prepare the cardiovascular and respiratory systems
• To prepare the player psychologically for the coming activity
• To familiarize themselves with the environmental conditions

Warm-ups should be intense enough to increase the body temperature, the effects of which will ultimately wear off depending upon its intensity and specificity. The procedure should begin with movements of the large muscle groups, as these are the main areas to which blood is redistributed. These include the following areas:
• Back lower leg: gastrocnemius and soleus
• Front lower leg: peroneals (shin)
• Front thigh: quadriceps
• Back thigh: hamstrings
• Inner thigh: adductors
• Back: erector spinae
• Trunk: abdominal muscles
• Shoulders and chest: deltoids and pectorials

Specialized soccer exercises
After the general warm-up players can begin more specialized exercises including mobilization of the joints and dynamic movements of muscles, particularly of the lower extremity. The final stage of a warm-up concentrates on technique, and/or practicing a specific movement.

Whether warm-ups are performed with or without a ball depends entirely upon the philosophy adopted by the coach. This part of the soccer training session does provide an opportunity to work on specific technical skills in conjunction with mobility work and may also provide a greater mental and neurological stimulus for the players. In soccer coaching generally a lack or improper use of a warm-up and a cool-down is a risk factor for lower extremity overuse muscular injuries, especially during running.

Football History

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Many people addicted football, so get a ticket to the final of the 2004 European Cup, and they are willing to pay U.S. $ 25,000. So from that day I try to make oret2an little about football.

Football is the sport’s most popular around the world, in Brasilia in almost every village despite how small, even as they always have one church and one football field, even if there is no certainty gerejanya field kick bolanya remain. I like the football we know today actually originated from England.

The nation’s Roman games page to bring England their calls them “Harpascum,” notwithstanding my past 3,000 years Chinese people had to know my game is called “Tsu Chu” (Tsu – kicking the ball & Chu) in almost the same time in Japan there are also same game-called “here”.

In the year 1848 several students from the University of Cambridge first time make the rules of the game of football page. And in the year 1863 Footbaal Association (FA) was founded in England in the years 1871 and matches first self prize cup (trophy). At the start of the 1,885 th player or players profi charge, is the association football world Internalionale de Footbal Federation (FIFA) was established in the new year 1904.

Stadium football’s biggest in the world is the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)’s able to accommodate up to 120,000 people spectators, Nevertheless, when the play Uruguay in fact they can still accommodate 200,000 people. Stadium the most modern in terms of the architecture is the San Syro (Giuseppe Meazza Stadium) in Milan – Italy here is the basis of place playing AC Milan. But the stadium’s is the world’s most famous Wembley Stadium in England’s decorated with two towers in front of the stadium, then from that call as Pele “football church”

Is the Lord Jesus when the small play football? Nothing. I do not know, but they also know sports, although
Therefore, most of the Hebrew people so busy, so only a little time or desire to exercise. At the time of Antiokhus Epifanes, sport introduced by the Jews had Helinis (1 Maccabees 1:10-14) under the support of Faith Yason (2 Maccabees 4:7-17), the beloved Greek people in sports are not considered reiligius.

Formula 1 race car ala Karl Schumacher in the match or lighter car with dihela by the horse is very famous for the Greek people and in the paper called Homer and Sophocles, then it may be from what’s written by Paul in Flp 3:13, 14 refers to this race Formula 1 is like in the movie Ben Hur so. At the time of the match page (race) page is a predilection of Roman and Roman colony of Philippi. For a driver it can lead to fatal dynamite during rivalry when he turn page on the moment “things in the back.”

And can not be finished on time again that this many people idolize the football match they are willing to do anything. In Korea, people in a suicide how to burn himself because of football, in a German father throw his baby to death, because it feels disturbed by the cry baby page, when he is preoccupied watching. And ask yourself the same whether you are willing to begadang only to listen to the Word of God?

Benefits of Soccer Chants

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Soccer chants bring in amazing thrill and action to a soccer game. The ever increasing popularity of the soccer game has brought millions of soccer fanatics around the world. The fame and prestige that soccer is now enjoying is a result of the dedication of the soccer players towards the sport.

Soccer, also known as football, is probably the most recognized and popular sport in history as evidenced by the millions of viewers recorded in every major league or cup. Soccer cheers and songs have become a major part of this huge phenomenon that sweeps the entire planet. Practically every nation, league or soccer club has its own chant or set of chants and yells to inspire the players as well as bring more excitement to this contact sport. The thrill of the international competitions has brought athleticism and sportsmanship to a different level.

Soccer has become a language that the entire world understands. It sends a high degree of cordial relationship among nations. Different countries from around the world value so much each soccer match they are competing in. They spend a great deal of money to win a major title. Soccer fans enjoy in their simplest ways the soccer moves and stunts that players do in the outfield. The loud cheering, yelling, and chanting of the soccer fans serve as fuel that pump up the game of the players and generate a higher level of excitement and action.

Soccer chants are a motivation to every soccer team. Fans sing songs or cheers to energize and inspire the players in the field. These chants are at times repeatedly recited and involve slight bodily movements or clapping.