Personally, growing up playing soccer since the age of 4 I fully expected every referee who made a decision to back that decision with an explanation. At that age all the way up through playing professional soccer, every referee I have ever dealt with was straight-faced after a call but still had the where with […]…
I’m sure you’ve seen this ball the past World Cup and heard all the crazy talk about how the ball was so difficult to control. There was a lot of debate over this which I thought was total bunk. I played with some of the best balls in the world but I was actually blown […]…
I wanted to write a quick blogpost about a team I grew up loving to watch – The Nigerians. This was solely due to the fact that when I was a youngster playing soccer obviously one of the most important and coolest things was to have awesome soccer jerseys. Needless to say the Nigerians every […]…
If any of you have watched an English Premier League (or E.P.L.), game you without a doubt know the name Wayne Rooney, who is one of Manchester United’s best current strikers and also plays for the England National Team. When he entered the league in 2002, he became the youngest player to score, as he […]…
I remember when I was a teenager and one of my club coaches I had played striker for Arsenal. He was pretty tall guy who was known for scoring hat tricks on Manchester United, which I thought was awesome. He told me some advice that I live by when it comes to scoring goals on […]…
Have you ever seen a soccer ball that knuckles? It’s one of the hardest shot for a keeper to stop because it’s not spinning and so it starts moving all over the place much like why a knuckle ball pitcher in baseball can throw a 65 mile an hour pitch and a hitter can’t hit […]…
There was one guy who always had my attention as a youngster with dreams of playing professional soccer. His nickname is the Pit-bull and he plays for my favorite country to root for in the World Cup. The Netherlands. The Oranje. The Flying Dutchman. Holland. Whichever name you use they are amazing and have my […]…
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