MOUNT LAUREL UNITED NEWS LETTER 2012 I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU ALL TO THE MLU NEWS LETTER FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL 2012. THESE NEWS LETTERS WILL BE OUT ON A MONTHLY BASIS AND WILL COVER COACHING IDEAS, TEAM ACHIEVEMENTS AND ALSO CLUB EVENTS. IF YOU WISH TO HAVE YOUR TEAM HIGHLIGHTED OR HAVE SOME NEWS TO SHARE THEN PLEASE CONTACT WAYNE GROCOTT AT TECHNICAL@MLUSOCCER.ORG AND SUBMIT YOUR NEWS. Speed reaction - Conditioning This practice is used to look at the speed and reactions of the individual player. To start, the player must pass into the setting player, support the pass and receive a lay off to shoot. Immediately the player must react and make a run into the box for a header. The player then reacts for a third time and becomes the setting player for the next attack. Players complete 6 runs. Three on the right foot and three on the left foot 1v1 continuous defending This practice is a team based game. Two equal teams compete to concede the fewest goals. One team act as attackers and must continually dribble balls out of the central area in order to beat a defender and score. The defenders must try and stop the attackers. The practice starts with as many balls as possible and in a 1v1 environment. This changes as the balls decrease and ends up with the last ball being a 5v5 game.
SATURDAY, April 28 ESPN2 England STOKE CITY vs. ARSENAL (live) 9:55 am FOX SOCCER England WIGAN vs. NEWCASTLE (live) 9:30 am England NORWICH CITY vs. LIVERPOOL (live) Noon Italy ROMA vs. NAPOLI (live) 2:30 pm England EVERTON vs. FULHAM (delay) 5 pm NBC SPORTS NETWORK MLS NEW YORK vs. NEW ENGLAND (live) 3:30 pm SUNDAY, April 29 FOX SOCCER England CHELSEA vs. QPR (live) 8:30 am England TOTTENHAM (my team) vs. BLACKBURN (live) 10:30 am Scotland CELTIC vs. RANGERS (delay) 7 pm Italy UDINESE vs. LAZIO (live) 1 pm Italy SIENA vs. AC MILAN (delay) 5 pm MONDAY, April 30 ESPN England MANCHESTER CITY vs. MANCHESTER UNITED (live) 2:30 pm TUESDAY, May 1 ESPN2 England LIVERPOOL vs. FULHAM (live) 2:30 pm
MLU would like bring to your attention that there is NO PARKING on any grassy areas near the training and game fields thanks MLU FACEBOOK The MLU FACEBOOK website would like you to send in soccer pictures, stories, game results, tournament scores and any other information about your team that you would like to share please send to Melissa Richards at outreach@mlusoccer.org WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!!
Mt Laurel United Soccer Association would prefer that pets are not present on the soccer fields. Pets can be a safety issue and sanitation issue for our players and families. If you choose to bring your pet please remember that according to township ordinances all pets must be kept on a leash and all excrement must be picked up and disposed of properly on public properties, which include our soccer fields. Let s also remember that not everyone is comfortable around animals and that discretion should be exercised as to the proximity you allow your pet to others. If someone seems uncomfortable with your pet in the location, you and your pet should move. Thank you for your consideration Travel Soccer Tryouts MLU open Travel soccer tryouts for teams forming for the seasonal year Fall 2012/Spring 2013 are scheduled as follows. Saturdays, April 28th, boys U8 through U14 Sundays, April 29th, girls U8 through U14 Saturday, May 5th, boys rain date Sunday, May 6th, girls rain date
Proud parents of great players offer insight The worst thing for a kid is to be on the field and hear his father screaming from the sidelines, and the kid has to look over and see that." That s from Pablo Forlan, the father of 2010 World Cup Golden Ball (MVP) winner Diego Forlan, one of 55 soccer superstars featured in Bruno Pisano s book, My Son The Soccer Player: The Secrets of the World s Greatest Players as Told by Their Parents. Pisano tracked down the parents of great players from around the world for insight on the early years of Messi, Donovan, Drogba and many more. If the parents weren t available, he interviewed the players. (And despite the sons title, included are Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain and Julie Foudy.) Mia Hamm s father, Bill Hamm, speaks of the time she, between 10 and 11, quit the game for a while: She got tired of playing soccer for some reason. Therefore she took a break for one of the seasons. She sat back for about six months. I used to continue coaching the team without her. In the next season, she returned with new enthusiasm. She had recharged her batteries and wanted to play soccer again. Landon Donovan s mom Donna Kenney-Cash reveals there were times when he thought of quitting: Sometimes, he used to think that it is not the game it used to be, that what started out as fun has become something stressful. It happened when he was away from home at a young age. But he never stayed negative for long. Those were just small moments, and he always went back to his love of soccer and went on to fulfill his dreams. Albert Drogba urged his son, Didier, to focus less on soccer and strive to become a doctor or a lawyer. Diego Maradona Sr. threatened to take his son s ball away if he didn t study more. Young Diego responded by spending more time with his teachers But instead of learning, he began to play soccer with his teachers, recalls Diego Sr. The issue is that one of his teachers was his accomplice they d play soccer together and the teacher would forge good report cards for him. Other players besides Lionel Messi coped with being outsized. Francisco Richo, the father of high-scoring Swedish striker Henrik Larsson, lamented that his boy suffered from a poor physique as he never drank milk or ate fish. When (Henrik) was 12 or 13, because he was very small and skinny, the other players made fun of him, Richo says. His coach saw his quality and told him not to worry because he had the skills to make it, even though at the time he had to play with younger children because of his size. Larsson grew to 5 foot 10. Andres Iniesta, scorer of the 2010 World Cup-winning goal for Spain, peaked at 5 foot 7. Jose Antonio Iniesta recalls his son s early challenges: At that time I was thinking that he will grow with time -- his body will grow. But at that age, teams look for players who are bigger. Most of them focused on height. Fortunately Andres was gifted both with technical ability and a great intellect. However, as I said, coaches at the time were skeptical. Says Johan Cruyff, I think my advice for a father or a mother is not to rush their child. If your kid knows that you are standing behind him through every moment, through thick and thin, then he will surely give his best. For me, my son loves American football, so we support him in that because he enjoys it, says Cienfuegos. If your son likes soccer, art, another sport support him in what he does. The most important thing is for your children to be happy and to do what they love.
On Thursday March 8th, MLU hosted a Nike Elite Training Session. This session was open to a small group of U12 and older players on a first-come-first serve basis. The Nike Elite Training 2.0 Mobile tour is a 2.5 hour training session designed to provide a complete, premium soccer training experience to enable skilled and committed players to fulfill their potential. Elite Training 2.0 brings together a unique combination of physical assessment and data collection. In short, what that means, is that every challenge that the players will be participating in, will be timed, scored, or both. This tour is currently going on in LA, NY, Dallas, and Chicago. This is one of the biggest tours that Nike has done simultaneously in all the major soccer regions. The first session of the Nike Elite 2.0 Mobile Tour was done with the US Women's National Team as shown in the video below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av5b8tyk3ao SUMMER CAMPS 2012 MLU SUMMER SOCCER CAMPS Summer Camp registration is now open! This year we have a Wee People Camp for 3 to 5 year olds! Fun for all! We have a Position Specific Camp for keepers and strikers and Soccer Day Camp is offered for three weeks. For more info and to register online Summer Camp Schedule Week 1 Soccer Day Camp Week 1 Wee People Camp Week 2 Position Specific Camp Week 3 Soccer Day Camp Week 3 Wee People Camp Week 4 Soccer Day Camp- June 25-29, 9am to 12pm, or 9am to 3pm June 25-29, 9am to 11am July 9-13, 9am to 12pm July 16-20, 9am to 12pm or 9am to 3pm July 16-20, 9am to 11am July 23-27, 9am to 12pm or 9am to 3pm
FAMOUS SOCCER QUOTES Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player. Mia Hamm The vision of a champion is someone bent over, drenched in sweat, to a point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching. Anson Dorrance Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it. Mia Hamm Manfred Schellscheidt: I don t believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.