Posts Tagged ‘soccer’

The Best Providers for Your Cosmetic Surgery

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Do you feel the presence of some imperfections upon your body? Well, if you can barely hold the bad effects from those things, you can certainly conduct things that will help you diminish the problems away from your life, anyway. But how this thing exactly works, by the way? You can start it all over firstly by turning your computer on and then coming inside the several websites that cover your needs on having cosmetic surgeries.

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5 Useful Soccer Tricks

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Body feints and scissors aren’t the only soccer tricks you see in a professional soccer match anymore. More and more soccer players use tricks and special moves to increase their game. But what are the best tricks to use in a match?

I’ve made a list of 5 very useful soccer tricks. These tricks are generally used to beat your opponent.

1 – Scissor

Although the scissor trick is very old, it’s still very effective. Your opponent needs to concentrate fully on the ball to tackle you. But that’s very hard when you perform a good scissor.

Besides that, the scissor is a great move to combine with another trick. Start with a scissor and follow up with a feint shot, for example.

2 – Step Over

The Step Over is a very effective trick once you fully master it. You use it to send your opponent the wrong way, or to buy yourself some time and space.

The Step Over can be widely used. You can use it while dribbling, but also when standing still.

But you can also customize the move itself. For example, try a double Step Over by ’stepping over’ with your right foot and then your left. Or do a Step Over Turn, this is very useful for a defender that comes near his own back line with an opponent behind him.

3 – Cruyff Turn

In my opinion, the Cruyff Turn should be in all these type of lists. This soccer trick is very easy to learn, easy to execute and very effective.

Since Johan Cruyff introduced this soccer trick, lots of other soccer players started to use this trick, other came up with a variation. That brings me to another big advantage of this trick: you can customize it. Make this trick your own by giving it your own twist. Be creative!

4 – Marseille Turn

The Marseille Turn looks like a show off trick, but it’s actually very useful. Just make sure not to to overuse it. This could annoy your opponent.

Imagine you’re dribbling. By accident, you touch the ball a bit too hard. Your opponent goes for the ball. This is the perfect moment to use the Marseille Turn. With the Marseille Turn you throw your body between the ball and your opponent. In addition, you even beat your opponent and continue dribbling.

5 – Shoulder feint

This is a less known move but still very useful. It’s the easiest move on this list. So make sure to add this to your game, no matter what your position is.

This is one of the most used soccer tricks. You use it to put your opponent on the wrong foot.

This trick requires almost no technique, all you need is timing and experience. Just like many other easy tricks, you can adjust this trick to your own needs or follow up with another trick.

These 5 tricks are very useful in matches. Except for the Marseille Turn, they’re not very hard to learn and apply.

Don’t underestimate it though. The best advice I can give to soccer players who want to use tricks, is that it requires time and experience to apply soccer tricks successfully.

Practice these tricks and keep practicing them. You’ll see that after a while, you start using tricks in reactions to the actions of your opponents. You don’t have to overthink them as much as in the beginning. Good luck!

Best Soccer Conditioning Drills

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Conditioning plays an increasingly more important role in today’s soccer, so if you ever want to become a pro, you’d best start working on your fitness and endurance levels from early on. Unlike popular belief, soccer conditioning drills are not just short-term, in that you can’t “forget” how to be fit like many states. Indeed, if you stay off sports for a while and gain weight, or simply lose touch to your conditioning, you won’t be able to run for as long a time as before, your muscles will be weaker and you won’t have the same tonus. But you won’t have to start from scratch all over again, because once you’ve trained using soccer conditioning exercises before, it will be a lot easier to step up and get to that level of fitness again. What’s the best way to do this? It depends on one’s constitution, but I will try to cover what I believe to be some of the best soccer conditioning drills, regardless of your build or natural fitness. – Best Soccer Conditioning Drills – The Pine Tree Sprints This soccer conditioning drill is called this way because you’re drawing a virtual pine tree on the floor with your sprints. It’s one of the most effective, all round exercises you could train with, because it works out both your burst sprints and your long sprints. Here’s how to do it: Place 5 marks on the field, aligned perpendicularly from where you’re standing and make sure the distance between them is equal. So, the first mark could be at 10 feet, the second at 20, the third at 30, fourth at 40 and fifth at 50. Or you could tone down the distance between each a little. Now, stand on the line and jump, pulling your knees to your chest. Either have a friend give you an audio signal (blow a whistle, clap hands, etc) or give yourself the green light and start sprinting for the first mark as soon as you land on the ground. When you reach the first mark, do a quick break and turn and sprint back to the initial line. Now break and turn and sprint to the second mark and back. Do the same with all marks and when you reach the last one, start coming down again, to the fourth and back, third and back, and so on. This works your conditioning in so many great ways…you’ll be practicing acceleration on sprints with the short runs between the first 2 marks, longer sprints when running for the 4th and 5th marks and you’ll also practice your breaking (mobility). – Best Soccer Conditioning Drills – The Full Court This is another great soccer drill that works all aspects of your conditioning. Here’s how it works. You start in one corner of the soccer pitch, running slowly in a 1/4 tempo along the length. You do so until the opposing corner, then pick up the pace a bit on the side of the pitch, running in a 2/4 tempo. When you reach the second length, gear up and run in a 3/4 tempo, close to sprinting. The last side of the pitch should be ran through at full sprint speed, then when you reach the initial starting corner, settle down to 1/4 again. You need to breathe carefully during the 1/4 and 2/4 tempo areas, because you’ll need to save your energy for the other two sides of the pitch. Get a couple of these full court laps and you’ll soon notice an improvement in conditioning. If you can’t last for more than a couple of them, don’t worry. Just try to gradually increase the number of laps every week or so.

Soccer For Beginners

Monday, June 8th, 2009

The seven benefits of soccer for both boys and girls and why you should pick soccer for them to play.

1 – The best reason is that they will have fun while playing soccer and that it is the number one sport in the world.
2 – They can play soccer whether they are short or tall, where unlike some of the other sports, where bigger and taller is better.
3 – This is truly a team sport where every one is involved at all times thru out the game.
4 – Your child will learn team work, decision making, communication and sportsmanship.
5 – They will learn new skills, stay fit and you won’t have to worry about child obesity.
6 – There is very little coaching during a soccer match, unlike baseball and basketball.
7 – You can teach your child at an early age on how to kick the ball.

If you want your child to have fun, learn team work, learn how to make quick decisions,communicate with teammates and most importantly, how to be a good sport whether they win or lose the game, then soccer is the game for both of you. I can tell you from my own experiences with my son as he grew up. We first started by kicking the ball in our yard. He learned how to kick a ball before he could swing a bat. As he grew I had him play the sport that was in season at that time, whether it was baseball, basketball or soccer. To watch him mature as a player and a person gave me a lot of pleasure, as he was also having fun. Even better for me was when I saw him coach his own children when they became of age to play.

Top 3 – Soccer Players Salaries

Monday, June 8th, 2009

The question as to whether or not athletes in general and soccer players in particular, should be earning the kind of money they’re earning is more vibrant then ever these days, with clubs paying their players incredible amounts of money each year.

The comparison to other sports is also very relative. A gymnast will train all his life, miss out on a lot of his younger years only to be able to handle a world class performance, but he will still not win as much in his lifetime as one of the highest earning soccer players makes in a year. But that’s the market’s call and there’s no “fair” in sales share.

Getting back to our topic, it’s somewhat difficult to judge exactly how much a player makes simply from his club salary, because many wage details are private, due to obvious reasons. As a club manager, you want to create complete harmony in your team and with all of them knowing that player gets paid twice as much as the rest, won’t help you out with that.

The highest earning soccer players can also be affected by having their salaries publicly available, because at every less than bright performance, they’ll be confronted with a “My God! He really should have played better for the kind of money he’s making” type of exclamation from fans, media and fellow players.

A soccer player’s income also comes from several other sources than simply his wage. For example, the best ever soccer players always made more money from endorsements and ads than their wages; take a look at David Beckham if you don’t believe me.

Other contractual bonuses will also earn them a fair amount. For example, many strikers that are confident in their ability to play regularly and score will have contract bonuses for each goal, assist or for a total number of goals at the end of the season, while agreeing for a lower wage cutout.

However, considering all of the above, it would be logical to say that the highest earning soccer players are also the ones with the highest wages. A club will want to keep a player that brings in incredible amounts of money through endorsements and merchandise sale, so they will offer him a high salary. According to Forbes Magazine, here are the top 3 earners:

Ronaldinho ($29.5 million, salary + endorsement deals) – one of the most famous and nonconformist personas in soccer, Ronaldinho has become the trademark of playing soccer as a game, not as a business. His constant smile while playing and his tricks made him one of the most popular figures today, despite the fact that he’s not as handsome and clean-cut as Beckham or Kaka. Ronaldinho is also widely considered one of the best ever soccer players, despite the fact that he still has many years to play for FC Barcelona, or his future clubs.

David Beckham ($29.1 million, salary + endorsement deals) – no presentation required, Beckham is more than just a soccer players for close to a decade now. His recent move to LA Galaxy from Real Madrid for an impressive transfer fee was well worth it, since American finance analysts agreed that the transfer would soon turn to profit, as Beckham shirt sales and other endorsements would soon earn the club their money back.

Ronaldo ($23.4 million, salary + endorsement deals) – the ex-phenomenon, the chunky Brazilian who impressed the World with his speed and goal-hungry attitude is not at the peak of his game anymore, although his move to Milan seems to have revived him somewhat. Despite his declining form, Ronaldo remains one of the central figures in today’s soccer, as he has an established name and image for over a decade.