Some Soccer News for Feb 10, 2016
du Nord, February 10, 2016
It's Day 41 of 2016. Alejandro Bedoya Strikes Again! Bedoya scored another goal for Nantes, this time late (118 min) in extra time to beat Bordeaux 3-4 in the Quarterfinals of the Coupe de France. See it here. If the USA plays the next World Cup qualifier and doesn't use the midfield of Johnson-Jones-Bradley-Bedoya I'm gonna lose my mind. dN (don't even bother reading the headline of this article) For the past few years US Soccer has used a completely different model for improving soccer and especially soccer coaching - so what is this upgrade? By Amanda Ripley of The Atlantic. Thanks to Grant Wahl for the heads up. A tweet from the man leading this change of theory: Honored my work w coaches profiled but disagree strongly w headline. US Soccer needs no saving- def. not by me! https://t.co/TgspHbO2Cq — Doug Lemov (@Doug_Lemov) February 10, 2016 A great blog post from the subject Doug Lemov expanding on the ideas in the article. dN An incredibly in-depth three part series on other ways US Soccer is looking to