Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

Content:

1. What is most important in winning an under 19 year old soccer league championship?

2. Every player on the team must go through fitness & conditioning in their training sessions throughout the week.

3. Examples/Details

• If someone wants to play soccer at an elite level, they must  have core strength, speed, agility and stamina in order to play for 90 min. as close to peak level ass possible
• Power training is an example. It helps improve the quick movement of your leg and is meant to help from your hip to your ankle and strenghtening the lower body. Exercises include jumps and squats which use body weight as resistance
• Another example is a 12 minute run, meant to improve endurance. Run continously around a track for 12 minutes and the number of laps is your score.

4. Important sources:

• Jeff. "Soccer Fitness and Conditioning." sports-fitness-solutions.com & Dr. Donald Kirkendall. "3 Endurance Tests for Soccer Players." active.com

5. I plan to keep on looking for different ways to do fitness and conditioning exercises, see how they can help and I will apply them to myself when I train with my own team.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

Content:

1.       What is most important in winning an under 19 year old soccer league championship?

2.       How often do you get your team train?

3.       About how long is each training session?

4.       What major things does the team do in a training session?

5.       What kinds of formations do you use during a game?

6.       Why do you choose to use those formations?

7.       What is most important between having a great defense, or a great offense?

8.       How does a player’s physique affect their performance?

9.       What kinds of exercises should soccer players do to get in shape?

10.   Why do you think a certain diet will help soccer players elevate their performance?

11.   What kinds of foods would you recommend for your team?

12.   What inspires or motivates you to try and win the championship?

13.   Why is it important to warm up before a game?

14.   How do injuries affect your squad during the season?

15.   What distinguishes your team from the others competing?

16.   What is the importance in every player on the team having the same goal?

17.   What can a soccer player do to benefit his team?

18.   How can a soccer player improve his skills/technique?

19.   What comes to mind when you hear things such as “Chicharito & 10 more?”

20.   What is something you or you get your team to try and avoid in trying to win a league championship?

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

Content:

1. What is most important in winning an under 19 year old soccer league championship?
2. The coach must strategize every league game that his team faces.
3. Examples/Details

• Formation 4-2-3-1 can be used against almost any other formation. Equilibrium of offense and defense if everyone does their part on the field. Meant for defense to overlap offense and have more attacking players.
• Formation 4-5-1 is very defensive and usually not a team's first choice. Usually meant for teams that need to end with a final score of 0-0.
• Formation 4-3-3 used by FC Barcelona. It is meant for the left and right defender to overlap the midfielders, run to oppoing field and either cross or pass the ball. Also meant for midfield to have control of the ball and maintain posession so the 3 offensive players can make a play or take shots. Barca has 65-75% possession on average per game.

     4.  "4-3-3 Soccer Formation." soccermaniak.com & Stewart Coggin "Offensive Game Plan: The 4-          3-3 Formation." worldsoccer.about.com.

     5. I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by finding more research on the formations
 and the professional teams that use it. I will also pay attention to the formation my coach uses and against what teams he uses them because it will give me a better understanding of which formations are most effective for the different situations.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

Content:

1. I plan on playing soccer league games and training with my team during the week.
2. I play soccer games on Sundays and sometimes on Saturdays. I also train twice a week for about 2 hours.
3. Is EQ is about how to win a soccer league championship, and there's no better way to find out than by actually participating and playing in a soccer league championship. While playing a league chsmpionship you need to play games and usually train, which is exactly what I'm going to do.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Literal:

• I, Salvador Gutierrez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
• WB Article #24 ʺConfidence in Soccer.ʺ soccerperformance.org. Web. 1 Nov. 2012 http://www.soccerperformance.org/specialtopics/confidence.htm helped because I know how to play the game, but I feel my mentalality was not the best, and this helped me improve in every game.
• Look to the right under "Independent Component Hours"
• I completed the 30 hour requirement by playing league soccer games with my team and training twice a week.

Interpretive:

 

(Coach gives the team a pep talk before the game begins)

(I am on the right post, defending the goal on a corner kick)

 

(The game ends and we all stand in a line a shake the opponent's hands)

(same as picture above)

 

(I am running with the ball, looking for an open teammate. I make the pass to my teammate and run towards the goal to try and recieve the ball)

 

 

(I am warming up for the game, and using the drill from practice of "keep away")

 

 

(I put pressure on the defender by standing him up, but a foul was later called so the play ended)

 

 

(I have control of the ball, as I run down the field to try and make a pass)

 

(I have control of the ball and try to rid myself of the defender to try and get to the opposing goal)

 

(I am warming up for the game, and make short passes to my teammates)

Applied:

• This component help me understand the foundation of my topic because I was playing a league tournament, and I had to know all the rules that come with it to play the game. I experienced the concept of the league through a player's point of view. My first game, we won, and we got 3 pts. for that even though we knew we had to improve. That led to training sessions that I would have during the week and I remember doing a lot of conditioning during one of my practices, which helps overall performance, and I was consistent, so I would perform well during all the games, which is essential to win.