Happy Holidays, Over the next week the Play Better team will be celebrating and sharing stories from teams who have already accomplished so much playing better this season. Furthermore, we want to personally thank all the teams playing better across our nation! Team # 1 – North Vancouver U-12 Flames The U12 Flames are […]
As the holidays fast approach I wanted to share this short video to our supporters. Team Surge is a U-12 gold North Vancouver soccer team. Over the last three months the players on team Surge have been playing better soccer to support the North Vancouver Salvation Army Shield. The Shields are one of many teams […]
Boys U10-12 individual metrics by Robert Kleemaier Hi everyone, In my previous post, we discussed a number of attainable collective metrics – team passing, Move of the Day & ‘Around the Horn’, among others – and their implementation throughout a 30-contact-hour outdoor season in BC’s Central Okanagan region in the spring and fall of 2014. […]
Boys U10-12 collective metrics by Robert Kleemaier Hi everyone, This past outdoor season (March-June & Sept.-Oct.) in BC’s Interior, we employed a two-fold approach to metrics, specifically collective (team) metrics and individual ones. To keep this post within a certain length, I’ll deal with the individual ones in a separate post later. The collective metrics […]
The Play Better team is excited to present this video to answer the important question of why and how Play Better was born. We really encourage everyone to spend the five minutes and watch this video. Willie provides some fantastic context into why Play Better exists and why it works. Play Better – FEAT Kids […]
The 5000 Touch Challenge: a fantastic training program and opportunity to reward players for their personal efforts A simple concept based on years and years of implementation in the greatest developmental football nation, Holland. This challenge has been adapted from my friend John Townsend who writes for These Football Times. Big thanks goes to him […]
Well it’s safe to say that if you are a hard core footy fan then the worst month of the year is finally over. After a lengthy few week break, I don’t watch the average US tour games they make the big clubs go through, the season is upon us once again! And I am […]
0 wins since 2012. 2 goals in 14 months in the men’s game. 110th ranking in Men’s soccer, out of 209 registered nations. 1 World Cup appearance. 0 goals. 0 entries since 1986. 1 Gold Cup. 7th ranking in Women’s soccer of 129 registered nations. [Only 1 other of those nations have our infrastructure and […]
Reading the comments and blogs/articles that have sprung up around the topic of no standings/trophies for U12 & below in the last couple of weeks has left me both laughing out loud and shaking my head at how far off-base many people’s interpretations of this initiative are. At the same time they are clearly demonstrating […]
All you parents out there, we need to keep our kids in sport! It is widely and commonly cited that youth dropout rates in sports are staggering. Discouraged children are simply quitting sports before the age of 13. This is the cold hard truth. A fact, as it once was. Children are quitting sport […]
