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Soccer Soccer uses some of the same speed mechanics as track and field and football. But the main difference is, in soccer got to have the same speed mechanics with a ball on your foot. So there are proper techniques to having that ball. What you see when you look at all the big players – Beckham, Rinaldo, all the big names, is when they’re moving with the ball, the ball never leaves the side of their body. So they’re keeping the ball close to them. What a lot of players do, especially in High School that aren’t that experienced is they push the ball away from themselves and then they have to catch up to the ball. The problem with that is that when a defender is coming after you, coming after the ball, if you have to run to catch up to the ball, you are just making it a race. You keep that ball next to you, then you can do your scissor step over the top, you can push the outside. You have the option to pass it away if you think that you’ve got to. So you’ve got a lot more options if you’ve got that ball on yourself, on your foot then if you are chasing the ball down. When an athlete comes to For an offensive player, once we’ve worked to make them bio-mechanically correct and very efficient with their forced output then it’s about moving with and without the ball explosively, getting ready to set up the defender for some type of deke. For a defender, we’re trying to get them in situations where they can breakdown and be explosive. Breakdown and open up their hips to shut down angles for the offensive player. And, of course, the energy system for a soccer player versus a hockey player, is a soccer player has got to be explosive and non-stop for 90 minutes. At |
to improve his or her game, we do a thorough evaluation. We look at what positional player they are, and then we try to address their suspension and their turnover and their efficiency all in the same manner. 