In the great documentary "Get Back," George Harrison, a genius in his own right, is trying to put words on Eric Clapton's guitar playing:...

Joy of the People, a non-profit a 501 (c)(3) that promotes the idea of free play as a way to build healthy kids and communities is...

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 Joy of the people (This is my very first blog post, we had not yet decided to name our project 'Joy of the...

I 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...

Sunday, 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...

“The only people who change the world are those crazy enough to think they can” Two of the greatests products of this century were...

Soccerex, 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...

Attack the discovery, attack the fun. “Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child...

(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...

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...