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Soccer Injuries – the Bane of Soccer Players

November 23, 2010 By 1 Comment

Asian soccer star, London  – We’re nearly half-way through the soccer season and at a point where soccer injuries are rife in youth players. Mostly this is due to improper technique, but the cold weather can be a major contributing factor.

Take Sobha for example, now 14 years old he’s spent the last three years training hard and improving his technique in every part of his game. We’re talking right from the bio-dynamics of his running to his speed, agility, strength, endurance, awareness and technical ability.

Every part of his training schedule has been carefully scripted by experts in their field to make sure he is physically and mentally prepared to compete to follow his dream to become a professional soccer player. To become an Asian Soccer Star. [Read more...]

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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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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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