No problem, mate. How is he coming on? When I left school, my mate who I went through school with left straight for the USA and got a football (soccer) scholarship over there and went straight into training. He's never come back. I often wish I had have went over with him.
He's more focused on school than football, but he works hard at football. Off season right now, he does cardio at the gym. Indoor starts in January. He starts high school next year, that's grades 9-12 over here. He says he wants to play for the varsity as a freshman. We'll see how that goes. Ultimately, we're hoping that Soccer/football might help him get into a small elite school like MIT. They are a Div. 3 school, so it's possible. Yes, there are quite a few foreign players on most competitive college teams. More than half of the roster of one of the teams, which played for the Div. 3 Championship, this year, came from Sweden. Soccer scholarships are hard to come by though, as most of the athletic scholarships awarded to males, go to football players, as football generates most of the revenue for the athletic dept. Plenty of soccer scholarships for girls though.
My daughter is into football, big time. Maybe I should send her over to do what I should have done, when she leaves school. It sounds like there's definitely a way in and opportunities, for your boy. As long as he works hard and keeps getting a better understanding of the game, I'm sure more avenues will open up for him. In the meantime, I would let him go out into the back garden, or a park with a football and just let him practice his skills and ball control. Get some cones, or tops, put down in a line and have him dribbling in and out. Slowly at first and naturally he will get quicker. A good one my Grandad done for me, he tied a big tyre from a tree at the caravan site we used to go too, and I used to spend hours just smashing the ball through it and I found that really helped with my striking of the ball and my accuracy with it. I hope he sticks at it. Football will only keep getting bigger over there, so they'll always be opportunities coming along.
This is the place for women's football. Have you ever heard of Title IX? A Federal Law requiring any University who awards an athletic scholarship to a male, to award a corresponding scholarship to a female. And with 65 scholarships awarded to American Football, it creates many opportunities for female atheletes.
No, I've never heard of that. Although, I do know womens football has been big and successful for decades now, over there. Is there more girls than boys take up the sport? How popular in general is womens football with girls in the US?
Almost as many girls play as boys. But once a girl 'stands out' she'll be the more likely to stick with it - because of the greater oportunities. There's a senior on my daughter's Junior Varsity Basketball team. She never made it to Varsity in basketball, but colleges are looking at her for football. https://www.iwsl.com/clublinks.php?title=Clubs # of football clubs for girls in the greater Chicago area https://www.iwsl.com/club.php?clu_code=PR # of girls teams at our club = 14 http://www.yssl.org/club.php?clu_code=PRK # of boys teams at our club = 18
Real Madrid vs PSG as well means one of the giants go out of the champions league, Man c could win everything this season, they most likely will lose a game at home though.
Here's Monty doing his 'look at me' impression while trying to be controversial by writing on a thread that has nothing to do with post
No arguments. But he spent boatloads on them. If he'd had 15 million to spend would he have them so far clear of the pack? That's my point. Put him at Sunderland and he wouldn't do much. Ready made clubs and clubs able to buy those levels and he's fine. Same as Mourinho etc. How could they do without the cash to spend. Conte won it at a canter. Can't spend (relatively speaking) and can't get close. I don't argue that he's a good manager when he can have it his way, but I'd challenge any of them to make acsude with a small budget into a top half premier league club
City's problem since the Arab takeover has always been retaining, so in true scouse fashion I predict that next season will be our season.
Yeah. The last 9 players you've paid a fee for have all been above 30 million. It's irrelevant now, we've had this discussion before, I was just replying to what Marcus was implying.
Failed last season though without spending (relatively). Can't say I've seen it personally. Every success recently has been with ready made or money.
To be fair mate every title winning team in every league spends big. A lot of also rans do too. Spending and buying the right players, improving an already quality side, that’s an art.
Vety true. Over the past 2 seasons Newcastle have spent £70 odd million and they can't win for **** with the greatest manager in the world... Sorry couldn't resist! (Disclaimer: it's not Rafa's fault though)
His first job he was handed the Barcelona B team. They had been on the decline for a little while and were relegated out of the Segunda, which was quite a big deal. He had to put a team together with free transfer and calling players up from the youth (can't remember the name for it over there), he did it well and in that first season they won the league, and then they won the play off to get back to the Segunda at the first attempt. A load of them players in that team went on to have very modest careers after that, so it wasn't like he was working with all world class players, but he molded them into a team and did what he was tasked to do. I think Pedro and Busquets (sp?) were in that team and were promoted to the Barcelona first team squad after that season.
