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Did AD Deserve To Be Fired For Eligibility Mistake?
Editor-in-Chief Michael Austin discusses the an athletic director who resigned due to a clerical error costing her soccer team a chance to play in a regional semifinal match.Please comment underneath the video or email Michael Austin....

Board Forces Athletic Directors To Choose Between Jobs
NorthJersey.com, Mike Lambertihttp://www.northjersey.com/news/137226448_BOE_forces_its_athletic_directors_to_make_choice.html?page=allChris Olsen has a decision to make. The Wayne Hills athletic director and head football coach must relinquish one of...

Reversing course: The story of the 2010 Xavier soccer team
A blueprint for how head coach Andy Fleming turned around a struggling program [caption id="attachment_25481" align="aligncenter" width="491"] Photos courtesy of Xavier athletics.[/caption] The Xavier Musketeers men's soccer team took the field i...

Soccer: Drilling transition movements into players
One of the beautiful things about the game of soccer is its free-flowing nature with the constant transitioning of teams from attack, to defense, and back to attack. [caption id="attachment_13260" align="alignright" width="266"] Photo: Sarah Jones...

Soccer: 1-on-1 drills to break down defenders
Using 1-on-1 drills in your soccer practices helps build the skills and confidence your players need to break down an individual defender, which is a situation they constantly are facing during game play. And while soccer is a team sport, it is a ...

Variations Of The 4 Vs. 4 Game
Many coaches believe that the best training game is 4 vs 4. The KNVB (Royal Netherlands Football Association) started using 4 vs. 4 in the 1990s with great success. The 4 vs. 4 game offers many elements of 11 vs. 11, but is better to use in a trainin...

Looking Into Soccer’s Future
Jay Martin’s two best sports growing up were lacrosse and basketball — and in fact, he played professional basketball in Germany. Somehow, though, he wound up as the winningest active men’s soccer coach in Division III at Ohio Wesleyan Unive...

Soccer: 5 vs. 5 vs. 5 drill
This is a great drill to run at any level because it's easily adjusted to work on the counterattack, playing against a team that sits and defends, playing with a single striker, playing direct, possession and attacking from the back. DIAGRAM: Set ...

Yeagley Named Indiana Soccer Coach
After a national search, Indiana University has hired Todd Yeagley as the school’s third men’s soccer coach. Yeagley played at Indiana earned National Player of the Year honors and making the All-American team four times. He had been the ...

Soccer Coach Goes To Haiti, Finds Family
After not hearing from his family after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Guy Valcourt, a soccer coach in Alpharetta, Ga., returned to the country. After a five-and-a-half-hour cab ride from the Dominican Republic, he found his family together in ...