Ranked #1 in the world, Football/Soccer has 3.3-3.5 Billion Fans. (Europe, Africa, Asia, Americas,etc)
soccer, football (fùtbol), is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players using a spherical ball. Soccer is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world.
The game is played on a rectangular grass or artificial turf field, with a goal in the centre of each of the short ends. The object of the game is to score by driving the ball into the opposing goal. In general play, the goalkeepers are the only players allowed to use their hands or arms to propel the ball; the rest of the team usually use their feet to kick the ball into position, occasionally using their torso or head to intercept a ball in midair. The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is tied at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time and/or a penalty shootout, depending on the format of the competition.
How to play Soccer
Ball Control
AC Milan Clinic Exercise 1- The 1-2
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Training for Soccer
Soccer Warm Ups
The importance warming up offers three major benefits to a player, namely:
- 1. Low risk of injury – by doing low intensity exercises that simulate the movements you'll be doing in a match or training session, you prepare the body for them and avoid the risk of getting a muscle or joint injury by a high percentage. Think of your muscles as an elastic string. Stretch it in a fast snapping motion and the string might break, but if you stretch it slowly and gradually, it will get used to its new form and successfully stretch. The warm-up phase stands for the gradual and slow stretching of the string.
- 2. Higher performance – a player that is warmed up will dish out a better performance than if he jumped straight into a match, because of two reasons: he will not be worried about injuries and will be able to play at the best of his abilities and his heart rate, respiration and mental setup will already be fixed on the same wavelength needed for a match. This also works for training sessions, so if you want your players to train at their fullest potential, make sure they warm up well beforehand.
- 3. Flexibility – Most warm up programs include stretching exercises and these have a double role: they prepare your muscles, tendons and joints for the upcoming effort, much like any other warm-up exercise and they increase your flexibility, making you more agile, a better tackler, a better goalkeeper and a more incisive striker.