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Soccer training and overuse injuries

July 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Sobha’s busy soccer training schedule could have lead to overuse injuries if we hadn’t been monitoring his progress and adjusting the intensity of the work involved.

Slight pangs of pain alerted us to an area around his hip which is prone to overuse in youth soccer players.

Coupled with another growth spurt his training program and schedule has been reevaluated and restructured.

The importance of monitoring, analysing and adjusting kids soccer training programs is so important that parents and coaches who overlook to put a safety mechanism in place risk the future soccer careers of their kids.

Here are a couple of articles that may help you understand more about soccer training overuse injuries.

How To Recognize and Prevent Overuse Injuries in Soccer
by Gary A. Levengood, M.D.

Soccer, one of the most popular team sports in the world with over 200 million registered players worldwide, is a game of nonstop action. Most injuries in soccer occur in the lower body, mostly to the knees and ankles. [Read more...]

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Wow! What a difference in speed and agility.

June 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I can really feel the difference in my speed and agility over the last couple of months.

Last season I thought I was ok in my speed and agility and I used to train for longer, but then I had a growth spurt. I started to grow really fast and started feeling a bit clumsy. I noticed my running speed started to slow down even though I still had my stamina.

The problem, I was told, was my running technique.

Basically, I used to run long distance at primary school and I was still running like that when playing soccer.

The long strides I was taking were great for endurance running but terrible for soccer. The heel of my foot was landing first instead of the ball of my foot and this was like putting a brake on every time I took a stride. The impact was going straight into my knees and boy did they hurt. [Read more...]

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Weak buttocks can ruin your Asian soccer star dream!

June 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

So you want to be an Asian Soccer Star?

I know I do, and I just found out that I can ruin my dream because of weak buttocks, of all things.

I used to get a lot of knee pain and thought it was because of a growth spurt. But when I went to have my running analysed and video-taped one of the problems was in how I was using my buttock muscles, the gluteus medius.

“The gluteus medius should be considered in every running injury”, says Sean Fyfe in the opening words of his article in the new Sports Injury Bulletin.

He also says “so many athletes with running overuse injuries of the [Read more...]

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Soccer injuries, why don’t I tell my soccer coach?

May 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Soccer injuries or football injuries, as we say in the UK, can ruin careers. Even the smallest, niggling feeling of something wrong can lead to something more serious.

I really should know all about the feeling you get when you are out injured. A feeling that you are losing out, that you may never catch up with your team mates. A feeling that you may not get picked every game and will spend a lot of time on the bench. An even worse feeling that you might not ever reach your dream of playing professional football.

Early on this season I broke my collar bone, while in a tackle with a bigger lad, and was out for 4 months. Those 4 months were the worst months of my life as I had joined a new team in a higher league and was really starting to show my potential as a striker. There was nothing I could do to keep my fitness, not even light training. I just had to watch from the sidelines and pray that my injury would heal properly. [Read more...]

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Chelsea Asian Soccer Star Search – Where’s the Weekend Gone?

May 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Woo-hoo! that ‘s how i feel after taking part in Chelsea’s Asian Soccer Star search this weekend.

What else do I feel?

Happy, knackered, sad, energetic, confident, determined, angry, hunger, grateful, disciplined, refocused, positive, passionate.

These are just some of the emotions i’m feeling (now i know why my dad makes me learn  ‘a word a day’ as part of my homeschooling education :-) ). Over the next couple of weeks i’m going to be writing about how each of these emotions affect my football training and education.

Just to be clear, i didn’t win the Chelsea Asian Soccer Star search but i’m pretty confident I was in the top 3 or 4 for the under 13′s category.

Not winning was a bit of a relief because i know i’m not ready for trials yet (just going through a growth spurt and feel a bit clumsy sometimes).

Another 6 months and i’ll be a completely different player.  But i did win a lot more from the weekend and i’ll cover that in my next post later today.

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