Vagellisms

Train ball touch maneuvers with a tennis ball to soften your touch and increase your foot speed.

The mother of skill is REPETITION so find the time alone to train to music and a thousand touches per day, as a minimum.

Treat the ball like an egg and do not scramble it!

If you put in 90% effort do not expect to get back 100% improvement.

Find a racquet ball court and a ball, play it off the walls and work on receiving turning, heading, volleys. No Pressure-no one is watching! You will get comfortable with the coconut, and creative. You have no limits to the creative ball maneuvers you can master in the restricted space of a racquet ball court. The ball will fly and so will your reactions.

Find a soccer buddy who is as dedicated and crazy about training as you are, and get together twice a week for some fun games and 1v1 competition. You will not only get competent but more importantly CONFIDENT.

Remember: Vision without action is a hallucination

The greatest danger we have as players and coaches is our dreams are too small and we attain them, not that our dreams are too high and we do not reach them!

Never compensate your mistakes, correct them.

Dribble in the opposite direction you wish to pass. "Be Unpredictable!"

Any ball back, next ball forward.

Late is on time - The well timed blindsided run to goal.

Take defenders on so fast you don't have time to panic and they don't to think.

Zonal defending: see the man, see the ball - nobody gets behind you.

Strikers vs Defenders: it's a game of cat & mouse, how well can you hide and escape.

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