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	<title>Mroodles &#187; Notes of a Soccer Junkie</title>
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		<title>Soccer coaching philosophy and practice organization</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 03:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everybody,
After talking with one of our player&#8217;s parents tonight it seems that a brief message on our practice organization and coaching philosophy would be helpful.
This message is not going to be brief &#8211; it&#8217;s going to be very long, so if you do not have time or do not care &#8211; please feel free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-game thoughts after playing Brasilians in O30 league</title>
		<link>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/playing-brasilians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>-vm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gentlemen,
I&#8217;d like to elaborate a little on what I attempted to say during the game. (I had tried to keep my mouth shut &#8211; but am too excited right now   Please feel free to ignore this post as things may seem totally different in the morning. Besides, I do tend to loose track [...]]]></description>
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		<title>02/10/10 Running a U8 soccer season &#8211; general guidelines and advices.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>-vm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notes for a co-worker who was volunteered to run a U8 team.
1. Practices one time a week, duration of 60 minutes, 5-6 activities total.
1a. Encourage players to come early by playing games of their choice or letting them do what they want prior to official start of the practice.
2. Activities should progress from simple (no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>02/10/10 Practice plan. Dribbling and ball control. U8, 60 minutes.</title>
		<link>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/u8_dribbling_practice_plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/u8_dribbling_practice_plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>-vm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Warm-up (~10 mins)
&#8220;Green light&#8221; dribbling game. Setup: 10&#215;10 square (yards) (dimensions depend on number of players). Players inside the box, everyone has a ball. Coach issues commands: &#8220;green light&#8221; &#8211; players can dribble, &#8220;red light&#8221; &#8211; players have to stop and put a foot on a ball. Do couple times. Add more lights one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kicking and Screaming</title>
		<link>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/kicking_screaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>-vm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s how you tell if a coach has any kind of experience or not: watch him on the sidelines during a game. An experienced coach will observe his team quietly for the most time, giving brief pointers or encouragements from time to time, but mostly &#8211; just watch, silently analyze, and enjoy the game.
On the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Parents</title>
		<link>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/letter_to_parents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>-vm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was a letter to parents of one of my boys&#8217; U10 travel team. Fall 2008 season (?). Feel free to re-use it  
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-
Hi Everybody,
With our first game just another day away, I would like to make some comments on practices and games (yes, another veeerrry loooong message).
Practices:
Please arrive five-ten minutes prior to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from watching Reading &#8211; Billerica BU12 game</title>
		<link>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/reading_billerica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>-vm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
(scouting Reading for the upcoming game)
Observations:
1. Formation: mostly 3-2-2. Played 2-3-2 couple times when had two tall
defenders on the field, when 3 defenders &#8211; playing sweeper back. Style
of play: play-making.
2. Have two strong wingers: #29 on the left and #45 on the right. They
however did not connect: either played on different shifts or played
opposite to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>-vm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight was our last practice of the season.


Last practice&#8230; As usual, we had coaches vs. kids scrimmage. We did have some modification to this routine: these are hard running 12 year old players, at our age with all our wounds and injuries it&#8217;s tough to keep up with youth so we had three of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random thoughts while watching Patriots blowing out Titans 38-0 in the first blizzard of the season by the end of the first half (oh, wait &#8211; they scored again, it&#8217;s 45-0 already and the half is still not over)</title>
		<link>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/blowouts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>-vm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New England NFL franchise is not the same as during their peak glory days of 2001-2004: two thirds of the team are gone, first generation and then second generation of assistant coaches are gone, and on top of that &#8211; Tom Brady is still trying to find the former self after missing a year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boys U12 Fall Rodrigo&#8217;s last reply in this exchange</title>
		<link>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/rodrigo_/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/rodrigo_/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>-vm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was the last Rodrigo&#8217;s reply &#8211; we did not exchange any more messages after that, just talked during practices and games.
======================
Good for the game this Saturday. I was told it was good. As I have said so many times you are doing a good job. But I think I can also contribute and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boys U12 Fall season goals, or second response to Rodrigo :-)</title>
		<link>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/rodrigo_2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/rodrigo_2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>-vm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#62; O boy that was a long response to two short comments. [full message]
Sorry
to subject you to this &#8211; the lenght and expanded explanations are
mostly for the site (and this includes this response as well 
Content is the most valuable commodity of the internet, I am just using
this opportunity to accumulate some). I think I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patience coaching, or response to Rodrigo :-)</title>
		<link>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/patience_coaching/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/patience_coaching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>-vm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Rodrigo  
&#62; I also wanted to mention two things I did not like yesterday about the way we played&#8230; [full message]
Oh, boy, this is gonna be long (on a bright side, I can post it to my
private vault   ) Just don&#8217;t take it the wrong way, ok? I do realize
that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3rd attacker practice plan (pdf)</title>
		<link>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/3rd_attacker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mroodles.com/wordpress/soccer_junkie/3rd_attacker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>-vm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was what I came up with for home assignment for my E-license course: 3rd attacker practice plan (pdf)
You can see nice summary of 3rd attacker principles here: http://www.thesoccerhelper.com/pages/coaching/principles-of-play.php
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