{"id":1503,"date":"2015-09-14T11:28:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2015-09-14T11:28:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:28:35","slug":"thoughts-on-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve become more and more rabid about soccer over the past few years.\u00a0\u00a0 Now my son and daughter are playing a lot and I watch and wonder.\u00a0 I have many questions.<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0How do you develop players who always make the easy pass, who rarely make bad turnovers, whose simple looking passes nearly always get where they’re supposed to be, and more importantly, arrive in a position where someone can do something with it?<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0On the other hand, how do you teach players how to first see and then make the amazing pass (see Kevin De Bruyne’s pass to spring Jesus Navas this weekend) and the ability to figure out when to try it and when to keep moving the ball along?<\/li>\n
  3. How do you teach kids how to hit a shot powerfully?\u00a0 Is this the kind of thing when you let them blast away until they figure it out?\u00a0 Or are there foundations they should be building on?<\/li>\n
  4. How do you teach tackling?\u00a0 How? How? How?<\/li>\n
  5. How do you teach players to rotate?\u00a0 In other words, when a center back goes marauding forward, how does everyone else learn to sigh, hope for the best, and fill his\/her position?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Note: none of these are things I want expertise about so I can inflict the information on my children.\u00a0\u00a0 I just want to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve become more and more rabid about soccer over the past few years.\u00a0\u00a0 Now my son and daughter are playing a lot and I watch and wonder.\u00a0 I have many questions. \u00a0How do you develop players who always make the easy pass, who rarely make bad turnovers, whose simple looking passes nearly always get where … Continue reading Thoughts on soccer<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-of","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}