Football Training
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Nutritional Tips to Prepare for a Match
How do professional footballers prepare for a match? Your muscles produce heat as you exercise. Sweating is your body’s way of removing this heat to manage your temperature. If you replace the liquid lost as sweat, you’ll get dehydrated. Lose the equivalent of just 2% of your body mass and you’ll increase your body temperature,…
FA’s Big Grassroots Football Survey
What is a better way of improving the grassroots-level football than asking the stakeholders to voice their opinions through surveys? The Surrey County FA brings the same opportunity for the players and coaches of the football workforce to have their say on the future of the grassroots game. Subjects such as the FA’s work at…
Chelsea FC hold coaching sessions for the visually impaired
Blue may be the colour at Chelsea, but it’s also the place to be on a Friday evening if you’re blind or partially sighted and love playing football. Jonathan Tear found this out when he went along to the new Surrey County FA Visually Impaired (V.I.) Hub club at the Chelsea training ground in Cobham…
Chelsea in search for the next Asian star
Chelsea’s Asian Soccer Star is back again this year providing groundbreaking opportunities for budding young players from Asian communities. The program offers the chance for players to win a place at the Chelsea Academy trials this summer and has already seen four winners go on to sign for professional clubs. This year’s event will…
Keep Up with Star Soccer Players by Learning Their Workouts
Professional soccer is one of the most physically demanding sports in existence. Due to the length of a traditional soccer field and the length of the intervals of constant play, soccer players are among the best trained and the most fit athletes in the world. However this is not an easy task, training and conditioning…
Friendly: Argentina 2-1 Portugal (9 Feb 2011)
The match started with Michael Schumacher appearing for some reason. Angel di Maria realized in the 14th minute what he was missing at Real Madrid when Lionel Messi played a fantastic chip over the Portugal defense for di Maria put it past the keeper. Crisitiano Ronaldo leveled the scoring seven minutes later. Then, in the…
How To Train Like Lionel Messi
Earlier this week we reviewed the new Nike CTR360 Maestri II Elite and discussed how important it was not only to have the best footwear when you’re playing the beautiful game but also how one needed to pick the right boot with the right strengths and characteristics that would suit their natural game. Today we’re…
Soccer Rules
To ensure fair play in all of the lands, the world’s governing body of football, FIFA, have laid down a set of rules for all to follow. Instead of letting people of the different regions of the world to mold the game to their liking, they have actually made football a global language by fixing…
Soccer Positions
The eleven men fielded on a soccer pitch are assigned to specific positions in accordance to their specialties. Some of the most common soccer positions are: Sweeper Center Fullback Left/Right Fullback Wingback Left/Right Midfielder Defensive Midfielder Central Midfielder The Winger Striker Goalkeeper Second Striker Center Forward Attacking/Offensive Midfielder For a detailed look in to the…
Soccerlens Videos
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