2016 Summer Olympics
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Those of you of the Catholic persuasion please start praying to St Luigi Scrosoppi that this game does not come down to kicks.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/204099802/st-luigi-scrosoppi-patron-of-soccer
https://www.etsy.com/listing/204099802/st-luigi-scrosoppi-patron-of-soccer
The horror...
Player missing frame is keeper beating the player.
Player missing frame can't beat a traffic cone.
I don't understand what you mean.
Team drill - use a small goal with a large traffic cone in place of the keeper. Shots hitting the cone are saves and not scored even if they bounce in. Teaches players (hopefully) not to shoot at the keeper.
This led to cliche with my kids about games where the other side does not get a shot on goal - "we could have put the traffic cone in goal".
Well the scoring would certainly improve with a cone.
Some keepers - most notably the Chinese keeper when USA WNT played China scared the girls so much they would not look at her eyes and many kicked it off frame.
If the kicker is afraid of the keeper, or thinks the keeper has it covered the kicker is really shooting at a very small area. So missing the frame is both more understandable and the keeper gets credit for taking away the players options.
This is equally true in active play. One of the reasons I so dislike college statistics is they just measure saves/SOG when the keeper may have had something to do with that ball being shot off frame (and they get no credit for that). A well positioned keeper takes the options away for a shot, a good forward is targeting a very small area. Of course many just get excited and blow it, but after all my over thinking I just came down to a goal - shooter won, not a goal - keeper won.
Some keepers - most notably the Chinese keeper when USA WNT played China scared the girls so much they would not look at her eyes and many kicked it off frame.
If the kicker is afraid of the keeper, or thinks the keeper has it covered the kicker is really shooting at a very small area. So missing the frame is both more understandable and the keeper gets credit for taking away the players options.
This is equally true in active play. One of the reasons I so dislike college statistics is they just measure saves/SOG when the keeper may have had something to do with that ball being shot off frame (and they get no credit for that). A well positioned keeper takes the options away for a shot, a good forward is targeting a very small area. Of course many just get excited and blow it, but after all my over thinking I just came down to a goal - shooter won, not a goal - keeper won.
One of the big problems I see with young shooters (all the way through college age) is that they focus on the keeper so much that they end up shooting right at him.
Very young players tend to shoot at the bright yellow jersey in the middle of the field.
I have seen two many cutesy pictures of winners biting their medals, inspired no doubt by photographers shouting "Bite the medal". In ancient times, biting a gold coin was a way to test it because of the softness of pure gold - bites would leave a mark. That works to a lesser degree for silver, and for bronze the athlete is just risking his teeth. (And the gold medals aren't pure gold anyway - they are mostly silver with a thin gold plating).
MakeAPlay
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So you are one of those that likes to look good losing. You should follow the NBA not soccer.
MakeAPlay
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You are such a tool. Your daughter better have a different role model. Troll.
MakeAPlay
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You will never know. Your kid isn't good enough!
MakeAPlay
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How would you know? You are a soccer idiot!! Tool!
Why do you frequently disparage other people's children? I don't see the point. Does it make you feel better?
MakeAPlay
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Jerk.
