Soccer
Essential Soccer Skills - The Step Over
Football, or soccer as it is known in third world countries, is the most popular sport in the world. It is a game that is both simple to learn and almost impossible to master. A game that is both simple and deceptively complex, football can be enjoyed by every [read more...]
Essential Soccer Skills - The Through Ball
Soccer, or football as it is known in the developed world, is a game of skill and physical prowess. Two teams battle for ninety minutes to try and find the winner, the side with the most goals scored emerging victorious. Unless they have the same number of goa [read more...]
What Is Wrong With Arsenal?
Arsenal fans, like me and my colleague Rayed, this season have experienced a series of emotions. From the highs of smashing Fenerbache, Sheffield United, Blackburn and Porto, to the lows of playing poorly against weaker teams such as Fulham, Hull and now Stoke [read more...]
Essential Soccer Skills - The Back Pass
Soccer, or football as it is known in its glorious homeland, is a game of guile and skill played between 22 warrior-like sportsmen. Ten players from each team play out on the pitch and one plays as the goalkeeper, the side’s last line of defense, a last- [read more...]
Why A 2010 World Cup Prediction Doesn’t Require Rocket Science
The World Cup draw in Durban is only 400 days away now! I thought it’d be a good opportunity to think about which teams names will be in those little balls to be drawn out for the groups for 2010. Here are my predictions and why I think each team should [read more...]
Essential Soccer Skills - Crossing the Ball
Football, or soccer as it is known in the great nation of the US of States, involves many skills that will enable you to succeed in the game and also in life. Crossing the ball, is like philanthropy, you give to make others succeed and in turn make your team, [read more...]
Essential Soccer Skills - Penalty Kicks
Soccer, or football depending on your inclination, is the game played on a pitch with two penalty areas, two goals and a centre circle. Inside both of the penalty areas, there will be a penalty spot located exactly twelve yards from the goal line. This penalty [read more...]
Essential Soccer Skills - Throw-Ins
Soccer, football or kick ball as it is known in certain parts of the world involves a variety of different rules or laws. One of these, the throw-in, occurs when the ball is played out of the field of play, crossing the sideline. The throw-in is the only time [read more...]
Essential Soccer Skills - Volleying the Ball
Football, known as soccer sometimes, is the game with eleven players on each side attempting to score more goals than the other team. When the ball leaves the floor, it goes through the air and can be headed, chested or volleyed. A volley is the skill of kicki [read more...]
Essential Soccer Skills - Shooting for Goal
Soccer, or football as it’s known the land of its birth, is a game where 22 men kick a ball around a pitch for ninety minutes, after which the Germans win and everyone goes home. The object of the game is put the ball into the opposition’s goal whi [read more...]
