Hi Everyone! In this edition of the Soccer Fitness Gols Video Blog, we discuss the trend of Canadian soccer players pursuing athletic scholarships at American colleges and universities, and whether or not this is the best option for their careers (as soccer players and/or beyond soccer). As always please feel free to post your thoughts [...]
Hello Everyone, I hope you are as glad as I am that March Break is finally over! With that out of the way, in this next edition of the Soccer Fitness Gols Video Blog, we analyse the recent UEFA Champions League matches between Real Madrid and Napoli, as well as Borussia Dortmund and Benica, which [...]
Last week, I had the pleasure to meet and speak with John Vanderkolk, who is something of a pioneer in Canadian Soccer. The former Governor and co-founder of the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame and member of the Heritage Committee of the Ontario Soccer Association has worked for over 40 years in the sport as [...]
Hi Everyone, a few more first-leg matches from the knockout round of the UEFA Champions League were played last week, including one between Juventus of Italy and FC Porto of Portugal. In this edition of the Soccer Fitness Gols Video Blog, we discuss this match and in particular, the plays by Porto's left back Alex [...]
Hello everyone! The UEFA Champions League started up their knockout rounds last week, and that is always something that can put me in a good mood! In this edition o the Soccer Fitness Gols Video Bog, we discuss the game between Benfica and Borussia Dortmund. While it may have looked as if Benica were outplayed [...]
In the past few weeks we have had some bad weather in Toronto, including freezing rain and dozens of centimetres of snow. A consequence of this weather for soccer teams and other training programs like ours was that many people decided not to show up to their regularly scheduled training sessions. In this week's Video [...]
Hi everyone. This post is a follow-up to my Soccer Fitness Gols Video Blog from February 13th of this year. I got some responses to the video – positive and negative – and as a result I thought I would elaborate on it with a short article, to try to explain this issue in a [...]
The internet has been an amazing invention, which has given billions of people all of the world access to information about anything they could possibly want, all with the convenient click of a button. One problem with information available online, however, is that there are not always clear ways to determine whether or not it [...]
Soccer is a sport which requires a unique combination of anaerobic and aerobic fitness. That is, elite level soccer players must possess speed and jumping power, as well as aerobic endurance and recovery, similar to elite track and field athletes. The sport also requires a significant amount of very specific movements, including accelerating/decelerating, cutting and [...]