3 Best backup goalkeepers
With the abundance of top flight fixtures – with some teams playing over 60 games a season – the role and importance of the backup goalkeeper is getting bigger and bigger. No longer do they just play in meaningless friendlies or only when the…
The Genius of Gigi
In the 2011 indie film “Win Win,” a nebbish wrestling coach played by Paul Giamatti asks his star athlete what it’s like to be so good. “I guess it just feels like I’m in control,” he answers. Giamatti nods and wistfully says, “That must be nice.” Can a…
The importance of goalkeeper training
The weather has not yet appreciably warmed in New York, but we are in full swing after the mid-winter break. Running goalkeeper sessions on windy, zero-degree nights with keepers of all ages and abilities has revealed a very telling pattern: the best…
Soccer Players and Fast Cars: A Sometimes Dangerous Mix
While playing for River Plate, Diego Buanotte had to recover from injuries he suffered in a car accident in which he was involved on December 26 – 2009. Buanotte was the “lucky one” as three friends traveling with him in the car were…
Letter from San Diego – Soccer in a Divided Region
The geography of San Diego is unlike most American cities. Snaking up in a narrow band inland to the north, with the bulk of the city sandwiched along the Pacific coast, a section of the city sits along the United States-Mexico border, cut off from the…
