ted4637Apr 167 minHow Free Play helped kill the DAI have a nice DA story, I feel I helped kill it... In 2007 the USSF announced they were opening up applications for the new "Development Academy" We were tur...
ted4637Mar 184 minBest soccer is closest to homeSunday, March 22, 2009 Two Stories This from 2009. Trying to Pitch our club to merge with a new elite academy, a who's who/original Beatles of MN soccer leg...
ted4637Jan 293 minCounter-leadership from Jobs and Cruyff“The only people who change the world are those crazy enough to think they can” Two of the greatests products of this century were founded by two singular ch...
ted4637Nov 19, 20195 minHow Brazil "OUTSTREETED" the worldSoccerex, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. (adapted from a 2013 post) At the Brazil CBF booth they had a loop of film showing all the goals in their five championship...
ted4637May 11, 20192 min5 steps to get your child to quit FortniteAttack the discovery, attack the fun. “Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventin...
ted4637May 1, 20195 minThe world's finest youth academy is not the best developmental system(adapted from my post in 2014) The world's finest youth academy is not the best developmental system. In the summer of 2014 we brought in the youth academy c...
ted4637Mar 30, 20197 minChapter 1: the game is infinite.In 1969 a school bus loaded with 17 kids, a student mgr, and two coaches crammed with hockey bags, left a Minnesota town on the Canadian border for a seven ...
ted4637Mar 29, 201922 min"The beauty of Ajax at its peak was like the beauty of thought."Ajax, Cruyff and Vasovic By Velibor Vasović, the first 'Total Soccer" Sweeper. Your patience will be rewarded, one of the best articles on the beauty of the ...
ted4637Mar 9, 20193 minHow Darwin's forgotten theory can set youth soccer right."Beauty comes first, victory is secondary. What matters is joy." --Sócrates Brasileiro de Oliveira We understand winning, We know how to keep score. But we ...
ted4637Nov 26, 20184 minHierachy of learningThe hierarchy of learning: elements of play Reprinted from a 2012 blogpost What creates a great free play environment? A friend with a ton of soccer experien...
This blog post was originally published in 2013 onSep 3, 20183 minThe world's best finishers"The environment is everything, mess with it, have fun with it, take care of it. " An interesting thing happened one day. It was hot, mid nineties and humid....
This blog post was originally published in 2013 onAug 31, 20184 minThe nonsense of over-passingWhy high belted shorts and chest passing disappeared and what it means for the rest of us
ted4637Aug 23, 20185 minCan Krashen's Acquisition/Learning theory save youth sports?How to divide work and play? A clue form Linguistics—Krashen’s Hypothesis USC Linguist Steven Krashen stumbled on to something one day when he was trying to ...
ted4637Feb 23, 201827 minThe revolution will not hold tryouts"Primum non nocere" (first, do no harm) --Hippocratic Oath Since the failure of the USMNT to qualify for the World Cup, much reflection has focused on the s...
