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Legends Soccer is Modern Society?s
Best Way to Develop Great Character
For decades CardiffCollege had been the elite Physical Education school in Wales, a small and beautiful mountainous country sharing a border with England. In September of 1981 the raw recruits of Cardiff College?s new intake of trainee Phys? Ed? students sat down for their first ?Philosophy of Sport? lecture. The participating students included athletes, (many youth internationals), from a wide variety of British sports e.g. rugby, field hockey, soccer, swimming, netball, badminton, basketball, squash, cricket, cross country, tennis, golf and track & field. Every popular British sport was played at a high level by at least one of the students present. Lecturer Vernon Mills launched into his regular annual freshman project. For many years his goal had been to get the freshman students to discuss the merits and values of sport in general and vote the ?best? sport based upon the priorities they had identified. The argument was always passionate to the point of furious. The students each wanted their sport to be the one identified as the ?best?. For the purpose of the study the students first argued the merits of sport in general to identify the most important common components i.e. those that would determine the value of participation. As a group the students identified 15 major developmental and participation benefits of sport as follows:
Leadership
Teamwork
Intelligence
Speed & Power Fitness
Strength/Endurance Fitness
Aerobic Fitness
Coordination, Balance & Agility
Technical Skill
Tactical Optimization
General Character Development
Social Skills
Equality/Democracy/Flexibility: As related to the degree of genetic physical capability required and number of possible permutations for practice and play
Constant Action/Involvement/Entertainment
Simplicity/Economy/Safety
Overall Health & Vibrancy: The generation of positive energy and attitude transfer into life
The students evaluated a full slate of the most popular sports in the British school system. After much passionate discussion, during which each individual fought hard to justify a high ranking for their favorite sport, each sport was ranked by vote, best to worst, for the degree to which it involved each of the above components. When the scores for all the categories were tallied and averaged soccer earned the number one spot in the rankings. For many years the result had been the same. Soccer, (?Association Football? in Britain), always won. Not only was it ranked number one, but there was large gap between soccer and the number two sport. The group concluded, (much to the disgust of the large rugby contingent), that soccer was the most beneficial all round sport. This goes a long way toward explaining why soccer is the most played and watched of all the world?s sports. For many years the conclusion of the study had been that traditional soccer is the sport that challenges and develops a greater cross section of human needs.
This clearly illustrates that, even without the unique benefits bestowed by the non-traditional Legends methods, soccer is the best all round vehicle in the modern world for developing character. However, when we add the brave, creative, leadership optimization of potential guaranteed by the unique Legends coaching method, soccer becomes far more positive and powerful. When children are taught the Legend?s way soccer stretches its lead as the #1 child character developer in the sporting world to such a degree that the second best sport is far behind.
This is because the Legends method has been designed and refined to speed up and deepen the acquisition of exceptional brave, creative, leadership character and ?Special One? soccer ability.
The above Cardiff Phys? Ed? College story shows that soccer is already the most diverse and beneficial character training environment in all of sports. Coached the ?Training Soccer Legends? way a childhood soccer experience will be vastly more rewarding. This book will help you understand how the ?Training Soccer Legends? philosophy utilizes and enhances the major developmental and participation benefits of sport to maximize your child?s character potential.
What follows is an expansion on the CardiffCollege study. It?s a description of how the ?Training Soccer Legends? philosophy enhances the beneficial affect of the 15 major developmental and participatory components of sport identified in that project:
Leadership
To be a leader a child needs peers to lead. Because individual sports involve very little teamwork they don?t develop this essential quality of successful character. Of the ?team? sports soccer is the leader in equality and complexity of leadership opportunity. When a soccer player has the ball he/she is the equivalent of the American Football quarterback. The key leadership difference between soccer and American Football is that during a soccer game every player has the ball and the opportunity to lead to a somewhat equal degree. However, traditional soccer coaches often reduce the leadership training value of the opportunity because they restrict the creative options of their players. For example they may only allow their players to attempt one and two touch, ?get it, give it?, ?hot potato? passing plays. This approach quickly passes the responsibility to another player but does so often at a time when that receiving teammate is tightly marked resulting in a loss of possession. In American Football the best quarterbacks are capable of faking and scrambling until their receivers are open or running for a touch down or first down. Legend?s players are taught to ?scramble? under pressure until their deceptive dribbling skills are honed to an elite level. This trains every child to be an exceptional leader. When a child becomes exceptional their peers give them deep respect. Respect is the essential core of leadership and fulfilling one?s leadership potential.
Teamwork
All team sports have a varying degree of democracy or equality in the allocation of team responsibility. In American Football the quarterback is usually the MVP of the team. The ?Wide Receiver? is usually next in the pecking order of team importance. However, from top to bottom there is a massive difference in the value to the team of the QB versus the lowly lineman. While all positions and responsibilities in soccer aren?t equal there is far less of a leadership divide between the goalie, defenders, midfielders and forwards in soccer than the QB and lineman in football. In soccer the premise is that each player is used to a fairly equal degree to advance the ball and score or defend the ball and deny scoring opportunities. In football each player is used to a massively different degree to achieve the same goals. In traditional soccer teamwork opportunities are allocated more democratically and fairly than in any other team sport.
In Legends soccer team responsibility is elevated to an elite level. Legends players are expected to learn how to hold the ball until a fantastic team play becomes possible or, better still, to create the circumstances for a fantastic team play. Traditional soccer coaches don?t spend enough time on teaching children how to become exceptional team players. Legend?s coaches first focus on developing individual brilliance because it is the hallmark of every great team player the world has ever known. Eventually Legend?s players are able to hold the ball under immense pressure until they can make a superlative team play (e.g. score or assist). Players trained in traditional coaching methods aren?t capable of holding the ball until the perfect opportunity becomes available. They become limited positional players who can only make marginal team plays that often lose possession. Legends players are trained in the skills and tactics to hold the ball until the perfect time to release it. Eventually Legends players and teams dominate ball possession to an immense degree and by doing develop a wider margin of team and individual greatness in every game or practice they participate in.
Intelligence
IQ testing, the most widely accepted measure of human intelligence, measures a broad range of problem solving abilities. Therefore logic dictates that for intelligence to be optimized we must expose children to the broadest possible range of problems and solutions they are capable of handling at each stage of development.
The situational variables in soccer are more numerous and varied than other sports therefore demand faster assimilation, computation and selection. This demands tremendous concentration and teaches the ability to work out best solutions at lightning fast speeds. Unlike American Football, soccer is a totally fluid sport with very few pre-planned situations. Therefore, nearly all actions depend on improvised split-second analyses of constantly changing circumstances. In soccer the variables to be taken in account are all the more numerous because there are 11 opponents and 10 teammates to be tracked and considered.
Furthermore, players must react to stimuli from all angles and heights because soccer is one of the few games contested on both the ground and in the air through a three hundred and sixty degree spectrum.
Another aspect of soccer that adds to the number of variables to be considered is the engagement of multiple senses. In soccer players are subjected to numerous visual, sensual and audio cues during play.
As an outdoor sport soccer is significantly more complicated by changing circumstances. Every decision involves a myriad of environmental variables e.g. weather, surface conditions, temperature, etc.
Lastly, because the range of possible skills is the greatest of any sport, there are a myriad of technical options available with which to solve the problem.
?Skill, intelligence and confidence are an unconquered army.?
George Herbert
The combination and interaction of the above factors creates the need to assess and compute more variables in a rapid, constantly changing, dynamic equation, where every player must analyze and decide from a greater number of available options, with less time to think, than in any other sport. The ?Training Soccer Legends? approach adds to these challenges by creating the most difficult game and training circumstances and expectations possible. The Legends curriculum imposes ever more complicated conditions upon players as their abilities grow. In practice, Legends players learn to assess situational variables, make choices and perform the techniques selected much faster than they will ever have to in a game. As a direct consequence of challenging players to overcome more situational variables and make quicker decisions than other coaching methods, the ?Training Soccer Legends? approach nurtures and rewards greater levels of functional intelligence. Because all of life?s environments are interconnected intelligence built during Legends soccer practices and games carries over into most of life?s other arenas
Speed & Power Fitness
Soccer stresses and develops the primary anaerobic fitness system, i.e. the ATP, (Adenosine Tri Phosphate), system for short bursts of speed and power, (0-10 seconds in duration). The ?Training Soccer Legends? approach maximizes the usage of the primary anaerobic fitness system because at the core of the second and third stages of Legends training are highly pressured 1 v 1 and 2 v 2 progressions that involve a high degree of short burst, high intensity, energy sapping actions such as tackling, rapidly accelerating and decelerating, sudden changes of direction, dynamic fakes etc. The high intensity, Legends competitive soccer cauldron does far more than traditional methods to challenge and nurture the body?s plyometric, (the rebound capability of connective tissue), capabilities.
Strength/Endurance Fitness
Soccer also develops the secondary anaerobic fitness system, i.e. the lactic acid system. This is the system utilized during intermediate length power activities. This system sustains the player for intense periods of activity ranging from 10 seconds to 2-3 minutes. The ?Training Soccer Legends? system incorporates a 2-5 minute round robin competition structure that demands a combination of maximal and sub maximal high intensity effort. The stressful effort needed in 1 v 1 and 2 v 2 trains a tremendous degree of secondary anaerobic capacity by gradually training a higher anaerobic threshold, i.e. the point at which the involuntary shutting down of muscle function begins.
Aerobic Fitness
The ?Training Soccer Legends? approach also develops the aerobic system for athletic endurance. This system encompasses sub-maximal, non-overload type activity from 2-3 minutes upwards in duration. Legends players enjoy between 45-60 minutes of this hard physical aerobic activity in each 1 v 1 and 2 v 2 practice. This builds greater relative stamina and endurance than other, more traditionally coached, programs. And it?s more fun than running laps!
?Hard training easy combat, easy training hard combat.?
Marshal Suvorov
Important Fitness Quick Note: The concept of ?fitness? involves more than physiology. In the best programs fitness is trained in multitasking ways that also enhance the psychological, technical and tactical potential of the growing child. The ?Training Soccer Legends? approach utilizes all three physical systems to a high degree in all practices while also optimizing skill performance, decision making and attitude. It provides a well-rounded, yet intense, program of speed and stamina development but players love it because they don?t have time to think about the pain they experience while they are absorbed with a myriad of complicated, optimizing, enjoyable technical and tactical challenges. As a consequence of the ?one of a kind? Legends training system players experience greater physiological development while simultaneously fulfilling other potentials, e.g. game specific skill, speed and clarity of thought, intensity and motivation. Most of these components are ignored in training fitness without a ball.
Coordination, Balance and Agility
The various situational and positional challenges in Legends soccer combines the quickness and total control of a dancer, the toughness and resiliency of the martial artist, plus the adaptability and creativity of the gymnast. Legends soccer demands split second body position adjustments in contact situations. This develops elite coordination balance and agility. No other sport has soccer?s ?head to toe, total body? range of technical challenges. The unique deceptive dribbling and goal scoring Legends focus develops and challenges coordination, balance and agility in ways that programs with a greater focus on passing and receiving can?t. The Legends approach teaches incredibly complex, world class, moves and shooting techniques. These are the most difficult neuromuscular actions in all of sport and, in the Legend?s system, have to be performed constantly under ever greater and more intense defensive pressure. Achieving successful performance of these fakes and moves under such conditions is perhaps the most comprehensive and difficult single sporting scenario in the world. At every level of soccer competition, deceptive dribbling and shooting situations demand amazing degrees of coordination, balance and agility. The ?Training Soccer Legends? philosophy focuses intensely on these two ?money skills? in the ?clutch?. Because of this the Legends method is the very best in the world of sports for optimizing each child?s coordination, balance and agility.
Technical Skill
No other sport uses as many of the body?s parts in direct contact with the ball. Soccer players use their feet, thighs, chest, head and hands, (for goalkeepers). Furthermore, these areas can be used in many different ways with endless permutations. The ?Training Soccer Legends? approach maximizes the development of all-round physical ability by focusing on the two most difficult skills i.e. deceptive dribbling and shooting. These carry over or ?transfer? into the other 3 most commonly used field skills of the game i.e. passing, receiving & tackling. By focusing on the two most difficult and decisive skills five key technical areas of the game can be developed in a fraction of the time it would take to teach all five separately. This ?5 skills for the time cost of 2? benefit makes Legends trained players far more technically astute than children taught in other ways.
?Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.?
Tom Stoppard
Tactical Optimization
It is a terrible mistake to prioritize tactics over technique. For the young player to eventually realize their ultimate potential technique must come first! Soccer?s is the world?s most ?open? team sport. ?Open? is defined as ?Having the greatest number of variables?. Traditional soccer combines and demands the greatest variety of variables and complexity of decisions. You have to take into account 11 opponents, 10 teammates, field conditions, weather and a constantly changing 360 degree environment with few breaks in the game. Friend and foe alike are all running in different directions and shouting for the ball. One opponent is usually snapping at your heels, pushing, shoving and sometimes trash talking. The traditional soccer coaching approach is tactical ?Chess on Grass?. Traditional ?Chess on Grass? soccer coaches try to get their payers to play ?controlled? soccer. They attempt to create an environment where their players have ample time to make a considered decision, Legend soccer coaches recognize that for a player to be a tactical genius at the highest level of soccer and life we have to create a crazy, complex, morass of competing physical pressures with immense cognitive dissonance.
The Legends approach throws a whole bunch of big and little tactical wrenches into the complex traditional coaching machine. Each Legends player is expected to learn a wide technical repertoire of very complex fakes and shooting skills. As a consequence the variety and number of tactical options that have to be considered on every Legends play are far greater than in the traditional ?passing? method of play. One of the key stages of Legends soccer is where every player is expected to make a fantastic dribbling play, (?use a move?), followed immediately by a great pass or shot. In this way every player is taught to combine the biggest team and individual challenges at every moment of every game and practice. The Legends approach optimizes the number of tactical decisions and level of technical brilliance expected at each stage. This ?Edge of Chaos? Legends process develops child exceptionalism. The number and quality of tactical decisions in Legends soccer are far greater than taught or expected in more traditional approaches to education. This multitasking perspective to soccer has excellent positive transfer to decision making for life. Legends soccer teaches your child to make great tactical decisions under pressure and has a tremendous long-term benefit in the most important daily environments.
General Character Development
One of soccer?s major benefits is the development of important character traits for life. Qualities of perseverance, individual responsibility, application, drive, leadership, controlled aggression, concentration, teamwork, self worth, courage, creativity and confidence are all developed to a tremendous degree by soccer. The ?Training Soccer Legends? approach demands and enhances these personality traits to a greater degree of refinement than any other approach. This is because the difficult circumstances necessary for the attainment of these characteristics occur more often in the Legends methodology.
?The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.?
Epicures
Some of the character maximizing circumstances, inherent within the Legends approach, are as follows:
Risk
Constant need for 100% mental and physical effort
Extremely demanding situational challenges and expectations
Great emphasis on individual responsibility
Complicated fast changing situations
High level of safe physical contact
Elevated emphasis on communication
Numerous transitions from offense to defense
Crucial teammate support (in the 2 v 2 stage)
Greater opportunity for personal/individual feedback and accomplishment
Mandatory attempted performance of difficult creative skills
Social Skills
Soccer both helps develop and reward confidence in social interactions. Legends soccer is extremely beneficial for improving social skills in serious, meaningful environments where individuals are interacting under both high pressure, (during game or training), and low pressure, (pre or post game), conditions. The ?Training Soccer Legends? method creates an atmosphere of resourceful problem solving under far greater stress than found in traditionally coached programs. The ability to interact positively with a wide range of people and personalities is possibly the most important social skill. Spending significant time interacting in highly stressed team environments will have the greatest positive impact on, and transfer to, success and leadership in other later life environments.
?Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.?
Harry S Truman
Equality/Democracy/Flexibility as related to the degree of genetic physical capability required and number of possible permutations for practice and play
The all round physical requirements of soccer allow individuals of a great many shapes, sizes and genetic characteristics to develop excellence and become valuable team members at elite levels of competition. Because leg and foot coordination are the major factors in attaining soccer proficiency even the smaller and physically weaker player can participate on a somewhat equal basis with bigger and stronger individuals. You do not have to be 280 lbs. or 6?8? tall to achieve professional soccer status. Any form of soccer has an unusual equality of leadership opportunity. Equality of opportunity optimizes developmental potential for all children because those with superior genetics do not enjoy the massive advantages in soccer that they do in less diverse sports. This greater diversity and democracy of opportunity in relation to physical ability is better for the genetically gifted individual because soccer is less likely than other sports to reward pure natural athletic talent. The ability of those with lesser genetic gifts to compensate and compete with those with better athletic genes forces the soccer player with greater natural talent to optimize his/her talents through hard work. The ?Training Soccer Legends? style goes the extra mile. It enhances the integral fairness of the sport with equal and fair treatment of each player. In this method all participants are expected to learn and perfect the most difficult, innovative skills of the game. Legends soccer combines equality of opportunity and the pursuit of creative excellence for children with a wide range of genetic ability in ways alien to conventional coaching schemes and methods. As a consequence a greater cross section of players can experience positive reinforcement, success and genetic optimization. In traditional coaching, where players aren?t as skillful and playing time is allocated unequally, the influence of pure genetic potential and physical prowess plays a much larger role.
Because soccer uses a round bouncy ball, even one person can enjoy such activities as juggling, dribbling or rebounding off a wall in a very limited space, (e.g. garage or basement), without a partner. When partners are involved the permutations for practice and fun with a soccer ball become endless. The ?Training Soccer Legends? approach is the most effective at accommodating any number of participants while involving them in very specific and creative techniques for excelling at the highest levels of the game. In other conventional ?pass and receive? philosophies the coach needs a specific minimum or maximum number of players at practice if he is to pursue a viable team agenda. With the Legends approach any number of players can improve their skills and be entertained while doing so.
Constant Action/Involvement/Entertainment
By nature, soccer is a game of constant action with very few breaks in play. This keeps both the player and spectator entertained, captivated and absorbed for long periods of time. The ?Training Soccer Legends? system teaches all players to master crucial creative and vital destructive aspects of the game, in the clutch, to the greatest possible degree. This method demands more repetition of complicated and creative ?big play? offensive and defensive actions than any other coaching system in the history of the sport. Because the action is so creative, all players are constantly involved and the skills are so entertaining the Legends approach is extremely enjoyable and motivational. When players and spectators are part of an action filled, entertaining experience the actual and perceived value of Legend?s style soccer is far greater than for traditional soccer.
Simplicity/ Economy/Safety
The objectives and rules of soccer are simple. The object is to score in the opponent?s goal and stop them scoring in yours. You can propel the ball in any direction, at any moment. Even the very young can understand soccer quickly, thereby making participation in organized training programs possible at an earlier age than in most other team sports. The ?Training Soccer Legends? philosophy is very easy for kids to understand, yet optimally challenging at all stages of development. After the technical training stage where each player has their own ball or shares a ball between two for virtually every second of practice, each practice involves transitioning between two closely spaced goals. Unlike conventional coaching philosophies incorporating passing games in grids, servers outside the grid, sections of the field where some players can?t go etc, the Legends approach allows each player to go anywhere on the small, crowded practice area, while challenging him/her to use the most creative offensive or effective defensive techniques and tactics under pressure. The concept is so simple that the average 3-4 year old understands it. However, the challenges provided by the environment and layered Legends curriculum conditions are so perfectly gauged that even the accomplished 17 year old has to give 100% in order to be consistently successful.
When compared to other sports the cost of involvement in a soccer program is usually very reasonable. Essential personal equipment is limited to soccer shoes, shin-guards, socks, shorts and shirt. This makes soccer uniform provision possibly the cheapest of any team sport. In the Legends approach we focus to a far greater degree on practice than games. During the year the Legends schedules significantly more practices than other premier programs. We believe that the thousands of extra touches that our players will inevitably receive in these additional practices will make them far more skillful players than those trained by other methods. Extra practices, over and above other traditional programs, are offered at no extra cost to the players and families. This is possible in part because of the higher ratio of players to each coach that is necessary to create a really challenging dribbling and shooting environment. As a consequence of the unique Legends method, players develop far better abilities and enjoy more practice opportunities, with a similar financial outlay, than players involved with other less progressive, less creative and less effective premier soccer training programs.
Soccer involves reasonable physical contact. Excessive contact is penalized within the rules, therefore, contact injuries are minimized and tend to be less severe than other team sports like football or flight oriented sports like gymnastics. The low incidence of injury provides the ideal forum for long-term participation and allows the more mature or less fit individual to participate for a greater length of time than most other contact sports. The acquisition of greater skill, agility, flexibility and opponent awareness inherent in learning to be a great deceptive dribbler, guarantees Legends trained players the ability to recognize and avoid injury to a greater degree than players trained in a conventional ?pass and receive? methodology. Players who are quick on their feet and exceptionally perceptive can feel a dangerous challenge coming. This elite perception allows them to leap over, or change direction away from, dangerous tackles a fraction of a second earlier than those without these capabilities. Furthermore, players who have spent a significant part of their youth career in the crowded Legends practice environment can predict and avoid the approaching danger to a far greater degree than those trained conventionally.
Overall Health & Vibrancy: Positive energy and attitude development transfer into life.
In the Legends program it doesn?t matter if the child has the potential to play for the U.S.A. or has ?Down?s Syndrome?. We have worked with both the severely physically challenged and the phenomenally physically gifted, and optimized the soccer and life potential of both! Everyone can and should be an ?Athlete?.
Athletes in general have a vibrancy and energy not common to the general population of non-athletes. A significant body of research has clearly demonstrated that most athletes have a greater level of personal dynamism and levels of responsibility than their less active counterparts. At the bottom of the fitness pile are those people who have neglected their fitness to such a great degree that, because of bad nutrition and/or a lack of training, die early because of a self-induced heart attack. The old adage is ?Healthy Body, Healthy Mind?. Intelligent physical development programs constantly improve upon the existing levels of physical and mental fitness of their participants.
The Legends program improves on fitness in four key areas?physiology, psychology, technical and tactical.
1) Physiologically the Legends program with its intense focus on fakes and moves, demands a far greater range of plyometric strength. Consequently, it optimizes the rebound capability of ligaments, tendons, muscles and bones (all the major connective tissues). With its intense demands on the primary, secondary anaerobic and aerobic systems it also refines the musculo/skeletal and cardio-vascular systems to a far greater degree than traditional/conventional soccer coaching methods.
2) From a psychological perspective the ?deceptive dribbler/goal scorer? has to be a braver and more creative leader than the ?passer?. The Legend?s approach builds a leadership mentality by putting the child on ?center stage? while doing exceptionally difficult things, in the fires of public competition. Legend?s players are also targeted to a greater degree than passers because they are ?Special Ones?. The extra attention they receive from opponents, coaches and spectators causes them to develop a much braver, creative attitude towards soccer and life.
3) Technique is the foundation all of life?s key skills. The Legends method teaches and hones the difficult and risky techniques of the ?Special Ones?. Legends coaches guarantee to teach and develop players who are able to carve open defenses and score great goals. Because Legends players are exceptionally skillful they feel incredibly good about their ability to influence all their soccer teams, (e.g. club, school, ODP), in unique, positive ways. This high self-concept stems from the immeasurably different and better technical foundation common to great deceptive dribblers and goal scorers.
4) Tactics. A wide variety of creative technical ability creates a plethora of tactical options. The Legends player is so adept at deceptive dribbling that good passing options are numerous. The Legends club teaches every player to be a great deceptive dribbler and ball striker. When everyone on a team has the deceptive dribbling possession skills necessary to hold the ball until the time is right for a pass, offensive choices are far more numerous than for those individuals and teams who are incapable of dribbling successfully under pressure.
Important Quick Note: From a fitness for life standpoint soccer coached the ?Training Soccer Legends? way has a greater positive affect on a wide range of character attributes than any other single environment in society. Legends trained players develop greater speed/power, strength/endurance and aerobic capability than those trained in traditional ways. The creative dribbling and shooting based curriculum also builds tremendous coordination, balance and agility. Additionally the deceptive dribbling and precision ball striking demanded of each player grooves great skill at speed. Intelligence is both fully utilized and developed by the ever changing myriad of variables. Most other facets of good character are honed because of the greater challenges, frustrations, fatigue and physical abuses that players have to overcome on and around the ball in the Legends method. The Legends way also demands greater communication and creative problem solving at higher speed under pressure. These are two of the most essential life skills. Furthermore, the Legends approach offers the smaller, slightly built, and the bigger, more muscular individual, an equality of opportunity and better chance to optimize their talent than more traditional coaching philosophies. Because of the constant action and involvement Legends players are engaged and motivated for the whole practice. In addition the unique 1 v 1 & 2 v 2 Legends system can be adapted to accommodate any player permutation at practice. A further advantage is that the ?Training Soccer Legends? concept is comparatively simple. In the Legends system great players can be developed without unreasonable cost because the program is oriented more towards the practice environment where, if the curriculum is good, most true learning and development occurs. Last but not least, the curriculum?s emphasis on deceptive dribbling in crowded conditions builds a higher level of intuitive awareness and a sixth sense for choosing the right option under extremely high physical and mental pressure. All this develops a refined radar for danger, an elite ability to problem solve, and a superior quality of connective tissue that makes Legends trained players less likely to suffer serious setbacks in soccer and life.
Even when coached the traditional way soccer is the world?s best sport for building great character. Taught the ?Legends Way? soccer is the most rewarding, enjoyable and beneficial character building environment in modern society
?Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.?
William A. Foster
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