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Interesting article - Pre World Cup - Dallas Sting
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Funny how life works. Now I have a daughter that loves the beautiful game and now I do too.
I only wish my sister would forgive me for never paying attention way back then. The things we learn in life.
Never say never!
OP, thanks so much for posting. It was a great read for this former JJ Pearce graduate.
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"Players ... describe rigorous, precisely structured practices that often began with a two-mile run"
"The level of fitness they achieved, that had never been done by females in history"
Setting a high bar!
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Deuce wrote:Great piece - really shows the growth from then to today.
And the decline in quality apparently. No women from North Texas on a USA world cup team in over 16 years. No girls on the current USA U16 national team pool and just 1 on the U17 squad.
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dallas 1968 wrote:Deuce wrote:Great piece - really shows the growth from then to today.
And the decline in quality apparently. No women from North Texas on a USA world cup team in over 16 years. No girls on the current USA U16 national team pool and just 1 on the U17 squad.
On the U18 squad there are two though. Madison Haley and Jordie Harr. Harr bounces between the U18 team and the U20 team though. Both are impressive. I would not be surprised to see either of them on USWNT in the next 4 years or so.
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And Randy is right, there are too many kickball teams who, even if they have trained to actually dribble and pass, inevitably fall back on kickball under stress. And I am not particularly talking about booming the ball back down the field. I am talking about the constant act of kicking the ball out of play. That is the MOST irritating and tiresome play of all. I know some coaches actually teach that to slow the game down and throw off rhythm. But the games seem impossibly long and boring as all get out. It is also done by players who lack stamina, or who are scared and don't know how to take on an offense move. I can understand the accidental kicks. I just, for the life of me, don't understand a coach who tolerates kickball.
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I'm not always opposed to the occasional direct play, heck, Carli Lloyd had a pretty nice goal from what 50 yards out in the world cup. But she had been practicing that with her coach and did notice the GK way off her line. I think that was more intelligence and less "taking a chance to boom the ball".
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Sho'nuff wrote:The great Hope Solo kicks it as hard as she can to no specific target 99% of the time.
There is definitely a bunch of that too!
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Or, PM me, that works too.
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I watched a '99 ECNL game played in very late spring/early summer. The game had been rescheduled (due to the very wet regular fields) on field turf, lined for football, at a local high school. Almost the entire game was played within the football lines and there was no attempt, by either team, to create width and keep the ball. The broad football sidelines almost a mental barrier for the players. The entire game was very 'narrow' and became a game of attrition as each team just kept thumping the ball as far as they could in the direction of the opponents goal.
As an aside I thought the behavior of both coaches to be deplorable, and their loud sarcasm, negativity, constant yelling at the girls to be counter productive.
Just my observations.
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dallas 1968 wrote:lots of possession based and short sided games in practice with the emphasis on keeping the ball on the ground, passing weight and accuracy, decision making and creativity.
In this regard, I believe we've found a coach that will continue her development in this manner, but her former coach RS at Texans did an outstanding job in this specific area. He's a master at ..."Stronger, harder, faster, quicker"...speaking about passing and pace of the ball on the ground. So shout out to RS for that!
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