An excerpt from Friends and Other Strangers: Bob Dylan Examined by Harold Lepidus: Bob Dylan and Neil Young are friends and mutual admirers. They have appeared on stage together numerous times, and have even referred to each other in their songs. Thrasher's Wheat is the premier Neil Young fan site.…
Creating Value Remotely
By Michael Smith, Bennion Kearny author and Vice President of Global Marketing at Align Technology. The Touch System To win time with customers, we need to find a way to stand out from the competition. Rather than asking for an appointment or meeting, the key is to give something instead;…
Free Soccer | Football Coaching PDF to Download
Ray Power - author of Making The Ball Roll, The Deliberate Soccer Practice series, and Coaching Youth Football - and Bennion Kearny are pleased to offer readers a free copy of Ray's superb book Soccer Tactics 2014: What The World Cup Taught Us Although it has been out a few…
Coaching Youth Soccer – Togetherness
The Power of ‘We’ Football fans the world over refer to ‘their’ team with a “we”. “We won,” “We lost,” “We played well,” etc. This is not just supporters that go to the stadium and watch the games live, or who travel across country and continents to watch ‘their’ team…
Coaching Youth Football – Soccer Intelligence
An extract from Coaching Youth Football, the new book from Ray Power. Soccer Intelligence Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. Dennis Bergkamp We all know what an ‘intelligent’ player looks like, don’t we? We use the term frequently to describe players with high levels…
Soccer | Football – On-Field Communication
An excerpt from Let's Talk Soccer What are game-calls? Game-calls is a term used to describe the type of game-specific communication or ‘words’ players can shout to one another on the pitch during the game, to inform a player on what to do next. Game-calls are used in everyday training…
Surviving, Dealing, and Healing after Divorce
By Caroline Buchanan, the best-selling author of the book Forgiveness & Divorce Healing after Divorce It’s a sad but inevitable fact that divorce is accompanied by pain. Sometimes, awful pain that you fear you might never recover from. But if you could forgive anyone, or everyone (including yourself) who has…
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Small-Sided Games in Football | Soccer
An excerpt from: Deliberate Soccer Practice: 50 Small-Sided Football Games to Improve Decision-Making 15: Set to Shoot RELATION TO GAME: Around 80% of goals come from finishes that are one or two touch. Many of these require a ‘set’ pass from the player making the assist. A ‘set’ allows the…
Barcelona Rondo Drills
An excerpt from Click on the cover to learn more “The purpose of the rondo should be for the players in the middle not to get the ball, not for the ones outside not to lose it. I talk about solidarity, about creating spaces. Positional play. The purpose must be…