More Moves
More moves, mostly from Brazilian futsal, but regular soccer too, for our players to practice.
U12 Lightning's Home
The Golden Boys
The golden boys! Played like a team.
These kids will go far.
There were many brilliant moments, but special hats off to (just to pick 3):
- Francois' left footer goal (his 2nd in 2 days)
- Shar's goal: he had 1 free second, he paused, thought, executed, and scored over the keeper.
- Noah's assist with little back of the head flip
(click to enlarge pictures)
Concentration (or a minute of silence?)
And the trees still have leaves, amazing.
Amazing October Practice
An amazing day for soccer, with a bit of everything, wind, sun, rain, hot weather. Still playing on shorts and t-shirts in mid October!
The kids did amazingly well on the maze, it is a joy to watch them control the ball in tight spaces, and do all the tricks they have learned..
Maze Winners: John and Hunter 22 secs, and Alex wins the bonus version completing the circuit in negative 7 seconds!
Video:
Great Match And Moments
A fabulous match yesterday in Rio, with many educational moments.
A penalty kick: the line is considered inside the 18-yard box, therefore it's a penalty; A ball incorrectly picked up by the keeper results in a rare free kick given inside the 18-yard box. The ref. was correct in giving the indirect free kick, the keeper made a mistake in picking the ball up, subsequently all players on the wall should have been exactly on top of the line, or 10 yds away (furthest possible distance), not what happened at all, a bad referee's mistake.
Note the 2nd Sao Paulo goal: free kick from the 38-year old by Rogerio Ceni to the 39-year old Rivaldo (both WC champions).
The Races, and Headers: Are Your Eyes Open?
Who wins, Peter on the left or Peter on the right? Gustavo on the left, or Gustavo on the right?
Headers: Are your eyes open? Kudos to Ben (number 1!), Hunter, Aidan, and Sam and Alex (although both need to hit the ball further down with the forehead).
(slow motion, in HD):
The Lambreta
This was yesterday in Argentina, Brazil vs Argentina.
This move is called the "lambreta" in Brazil. Damiao hits the post!
Annual Season Video
Here is this year's season team video. It covers most of the year's highlights. It is in HD and about 11 minutes long. Please watch when you have some a little time to see our kids incredible accomplishments- and fun.
You may watch in full 1080p HD if your computer is powerful enough, and if you have a really fast Internet connection. Just the processing (video rendering, YouTube processing and uploading) took over 8 hours due to the number of videos this year and the fact that everything now in HD.
Enjoy, for posterity!
MVP 2011
Players are invited to the annual banquet on September 21. At that banquet, awards will be given to the MVP and MIP. The coaches will choose the MIP and the players get to choose the MVP.
Players: please use this form to vote NOW.
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