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		<title>Soccer Shoes &#8211; No Heels, But a Great Kick!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by feverblue &#8220;For Turf and Indoor Soccer&#8221; Soccer shoes are certainly not high heels but they definitely can be stylish. But also functional. When we talk about soccer cleats or soccer boots we talk of molded soles or removable cleat soccer footwear for use on grass fields. So let&#8217;s turn our attention to indoor or [...]]]></description>
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<p><b>&#8220;For Turf and Indoor Soccer&#8221;</b></p>
<p>Soccer shoes are certainly not high heels but they definitely can be stylish. But also functional.</p>
<p>When we talk about soccer cleats or soccer boots we talk of molded soles or removable cleat soccer footwear for use on grass fields.</p>
<p> So let&#8217;s turn our attention to indoor or artificial turf footwear. </p>
<p><b> Why Special Shoes?</b></p>
<p>When you are talking about indoor soccer shoes, you talk about soccer gear that is made for a specific purpose. The sole provides a better grip on the indoor surface so you can speed by your competition with your moves. Some people think that they can get away with sneakers, but you will think again after you have been burned a few times on the indoor soccer field.</p>
<p>There are many companies that manufacture these products. They include Lotto indoor soccer shoes, Adidas, Puma, and Nike.</p>
<p>Soccer turf shoes are made to be used on artificial turf. Some people will try wearing soccer cleats, but the studs may grip too well and you could end up twisting something that you didn&#8217;t want to. Soccer turf shoes have shorter molded rubber studs and will provide good grip but will also help prevent injury.</p>
<p><b>Traction!</b></p>
<p>Having good traction in soccer is extremely important. With the moves that we try we need to make sure that we get the grip that we need. That is why special soles are made for turf shoes and indoor shoes. They provide the best grip on their specific surfaces.</p>
<p><b>Material!</b></p>
<p>Like soccer cleats, the materials used are either real leather, or synthetic leather. Real leather will provide a better feel for the ball, but may cost a little more. They will also usually last longer than synthetic models. You will have to decide where to draw the line.</p>
<p><b>Looks Can Be Deceiving!</b></p>
<p>These shoes can resemble sneakers, but don&#8217;t kid yourself. They will perform much better than sneakers, and give you the confidence of knowing that your soccer footwear is good for the job.</p>
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<p>Wayne MacLean has over 30 years of experience in the game of soccer. As a soccer coach, soccer player, soccer referee, and all-around soccer fan, Wayne is now adding a new dimension to his love of soccer. He now writes many articles and creates soccer videos to help those that are involved in soccer, are new to soccer, or just want to know more about soccer. Check out my Soccer Shoes [http://www.soccer.information-universe.com/soccer-shoes/soccer-shoes.php] for more great soccer information for yourself or your team.</p>
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		<title>Soccer And Baseball Trophies</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ezalis If any team have contributed in any soccer event than that tem do gets the soccer trophy as soccer trophies uses to be presented to each and every team performed in any event. These trophies use to be presented in very professional way and generally by the legends of the soccer as it [...]]]></description>
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<p> If any team have contributed in any soccer event than that tem do gets the soccer trophy as soccer trophies uses to be presented to each and every team performed in any event. These trophies use to be presented in very professional way and generally by the legends of the soccer as it use to represent the iconic contribution of teams to the game of soccer. In generally there uses to be the name of the team printed on the trophy but sometimes the date of event also uses to be printed. The soccer trophies of FIFA world cup are known to be as most respectable and prestigious trophy of all time and it uses to be awarded to the team winning the FIFA world cup. The first ever World Cup trophy was won by Uruguay and 1930.</p>
<p>Abel Lafleur designed the first ever soccer trophy of FIFA World Cup in 1946 and named it after the name of the founder of the world cup Jules Rimet Cup. Abel Lafleur is a French sculptor and has been the fan of soccer from long time. As FIFA Trophy must be different from all other soccer trophies, he designed a new soccer trophy with the combination of gold and elegant stones. Goddess of victory holding the cup of octagon shape was designed on this highly respected trophy. The designed changed in 1970 and new trophy was designed by Silvio Gazzaniga, who was an Italian artist. It was known to be as the one of the finest designed soccer trophy from all of the soccer trophies designed till that time. From past to present, soccer trophies have been greatest rewards to the soccer teams and it will remain forever.</p>
<p>Unlike soccer, baseball teams uses to give the baseball awards to their teammates, coaches and all other members related to the team. They use gather the names of al of their players and coaches and other members and then they uses to decide that what they want to write on the baseball award, which uses to include the team name generally. After all this they use to divide baseball award by categories and use decide that if they are going to any special baseball award to someone to they are going to same baseball award to everyone. Then they use to deice the shape of the trophy and how much they can spend in the designing of the trophy. Generally they uses to make the man or women body shape on the award/trophy but they dont want to do so then they uses to opt for the Tro Action Figure to be printed on award. Other special awards also uses to be put under consideration and some of them uses to be team pins, dog tags, fine crystal awards or baseball medals. The players uses to keep these award with themselves for whole of their life as they uses to know the importance of these awards in their lives, even other members of team use to do the same. </p>
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		<title>Soccer Conditioning &#8211; The 6 Elements</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Shane Pope Soccer is an athletic sport and it has become more than a game that awards the player with the best ball skills. Improving your body and your physical traits, as well as chiseling your physical weaknesses is extremely important in modern day soccer and the field that tends to all these aspects [...]]]></description>
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<p>Soccer is an athletic sport and it has become more than a game that awards the player with the best ball skills. Improving your body and your physical traits, as well as chiseling your physical weaknesses is extremely important in modern day soccer and the field that tends to all these aspects is called soccer conditioning.</p>
<p>Soccer conditioning is actually made up of 6 concepts, or sub-sections if you will. The warm up, strength, power, endurance, agility and speed training are key components to a full soccer conditioning program. I won&#8217;t go into too much detail about them with the article at hand, but what I do want to do is give you a glimpse on what each component is, how it benefits you as a soccer player (or your players if you&#8217;re a coach) and how it can be improved.</p>
<p><b>-Soccer Warm Ups</b></p>
<p>At the very beginning of soccer, players would warm up before a match individually and rather disorganized. Besides of a few common warm-up and stretching exercises, they depended on the first minutes of play to get them into the right condition to play at full potential.</p>
<p>Nowadays, warming up is given increasingly higher importance, because it helps a soccer player in two ways: it protects you from muscle injuries such as strains and ruptures and it brings you to your maximum playing ability as the match or training session begins. A third benefit comes from specific stretching exercises, that make you more agile and flexible, which is a great advantage for a soccer player in today&#8217;s lightning fast game.</p>
<p><b>-Soccer Strength</b></p>
<p>Strength is a crucial factor in soccer, since it affects several abilities used during a match, such as jumping, shooting, dribbling, shielding, balance, tackling or marking. Actually, strength is probably the only conditioning key component that is useful in the same measure for all players, regardless of their position on the pitch. Shielding is often confused with power, but as you will see below there&#8217;s a difference between the two.</p>
<p><b>-Soccer Power</b></p>
<p>Power can refer to one of three things in soccer: the power of your shots, the power of your headers and the power of your throws. Although strength does have an important role in determining these three attributes, you also need to have the right technique to make them work. So power is a combination between strength and technique.</p>
<p>For example, when kicking a ball towards the goal, strength will work towards a more powerful shot if you have trained out your abs, lower back and leg muscles, but at the same time you&#8217;ll need to kick the ball perfectly if you want to achieve a truly powerful and accurate shot. As a tire commercial once put it&#8230;power is nothing without control.</p>
<p><b>-Soccer Endurance</b></p>
<p>There are two types of endurance, short and long range. Short endurance refers to your ability to sprint longer and long endurance is more general and it helps you pull off an entire match. It&#8217;s important to know that endurance isn&#8217;t just about being able to run for the ball longer in a match. If you get tired, you will also have a harder time focusing on the game, jumping, tackling, dribbling, finishing and so forth. So having good endurance can help you get the best out of yourself for longer periods of time.</p>
<p>Note that it&#8217;s very hard to get to a level where you can run tirelessly even in the latter stages of the match. Even professional soccer players that are part of the most powerful clubs in the World tend to get tired around the 80th minute, or earlier if they played a high tempo game.</p>
<p><b>-Soccer Agility</b></p>
<p>Agility can help you on several levels in soccer. Goalkeepers will have better reflexes and they&#8217;ll be able to get to high balls quicker if they&#8217;re more agile. Defenders will be harder to dribble and their tackles will be more accurate and clean with the right level of agility. Midfielders can dribble with ease if they&#8217;re agile and strikers work well around their quickness in order to get in front of the defender and finish on crosses, or dribble their way to goal when possible.</p>
<p><b>-Soccer Speed</b></p>
<p>Just like with the power-strength confusion, some people tend to put an equality sign in between speed and agility. Whereas agility refers to quick reactions, speed refers to running at full throttle, on a longer distance. Actually, speed has two components: acceleration and top speed.</p>
<p>Acceleration lasts from the moment you start the sprint, to a second or two before you can reach top speed. Indeed, agility plays a crucial role in acceleration, but has little to do with top speed. So focusing on agility exercises may improve your acceleration, but your top speed is difficult to improve, since it&#8217;s determined by a formula involving your lower body strength, natural constitution and running technique.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[by fotobydave Despite being a sport with roots reaching out to medieval and even ancient times, soccer was never really played under a set of strict rules until 1863. On 26 October, 1863 several amateur and semi-professional clubs from England gathered up in London and formed up the Football Association and devised a &#8220;constitution&#8221; for [...]]]></description>
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<p>Despite being a sport with roots reaching out to medieval and even ancient times, soccer was never really played under a set of strict rules until 1863.</p>
<p>On 26 October, 1863 several amateur and semi-professional clubs from England gathered up in London and formed up the Football Association and devised a &#8220;constitution&#8221; for the game, including a set of standardized soccer.Obviously the &#8220;Laws of football&#8221; as they were called back then were just a set of basic soccer rules and they didn&#8217;t cover all aspects of the game.</p>
<p>The main points covered by the Football Association were regarding violence on the pitch, as oftentimes the tense clashes in no-rules matches lead to bloody fistfights between the teams. Since then, soccer rules constantly evolved and began covering more and more of the game&#8217;s principles and also adapting soccer to the age it was played in.</p>
<p>A simple example of this would be the offside rules which was introduced later on in the game, when matches became more and more tactical.</p>
<p>Without the offside rule, attackers would often have a hibernating role in the team, simply staying up front and waiting for the ball to come, hence with the new rule, they were forced to work as much as the other players on the pitch.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at some of the official soccer rules of today and give them a small explanation for why they are there and how they affect the game:</p>
<p><b>Soccer field dimensions</b> &#8211; since not all soccer pitches could share the exact same size, FIFA decided a small length and width size threshold in order for a pitch to be playable. So the minimum length of a soccer field must be of 100 yards (90 meters), whereas the maximum length must be 130 yards (120 meters).</p>
<p>A bigger size difference was allowed for the width, which can be as small as 50 yards (45 meters) and as big as 100 yards (90 meters). You might have noticed that the minimum length coincides with the maximum width! Although strange indeed, soccer could actually be played on a square field, however for entertainment&#8217;s sake no one built that kind of pitch yet (thankfully).</p>
<p><b>Number of players</b> &#8211; The official soccer rules book states that each team can enter the field with 11 players (one of which is the goalkeeper).</p>
<p>The number of substitutes depends on the competition the match is played in, but in official FIFA matches the number of substitutes can range from none to 7, with 3 substitutions eligible for each of the two teams.</p>
<p>However, in friendly matches, it&#8217;s often the case that both teams agree upon a set number of substitutions or simply go all-out and allow every bench player to get in the game at some point, replacing one of the first team members.</p>
<p><b>Ball in/out play soccer rules</b> &#8211; The ball is in play whenever the referee doesn&#8217;t intervene whistling a game stop and whenever it stays inside the play area.</p>
<p>If the ball crosses the goal line or touch line by more than half its circumference, then it goes out of play and a goal kick/corner or throw in is given to one of the teams (the opposition of the team that last touched the ball). If a ball hits the referee ,the corner flag, the goal post or any other object on the pitch, the game remains in play.</p>
<p><b>Fouls</b> &#8211; Fouls are one of the most problematic soccer rules nowadays, since they can be easily misjudge or interpreted by the referee, which often causes arguments on and off the pitch. Theoretically, a foul is whistled and a direct or indirect kick is given when a player trips, kicks, pushes, punches, charges or holds an opponent.</p>
<p>However, in the fast pace of the game, it&#8217;s often hard for the referee to see if a tackle touches the feet of the attacker or the ball. It&#8217;s considered a foul even if the defending player doesn&#8217;t touch the attacker at all, but has a dangerous intervention such as a high kick.</p>
<p><b>Goals</b> &#8211; Last but not least, the essence of soccer rules and the object of the game itself, the goal.</p>
<p>In order to score a goal, the attacking team must pass the ball beyond the other team&#8217;s goal line. The attacker can kick the ball, head the ball or push it in with any other body part other than the hand (in which case it is considered handball).</p>
<p>Not all shots that end up in the net are goals though, as a goal can be cancelled if it was scored after the attacker broke one of the other soccer rules, such as fouling a defender or the goalkeeper, using his hand to control the ball, being offside or scoring directly from an indirect free kick.</p>
<p>These are the basic soccer rules and although there are a few smaller twists to learn, if you manage to understand these, you&#8217;ll be able to watch, and understand a soccer match without problems. Outside the offside rule the other official soccer rules are quite easy to grasp.</p>
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