This is a new schedule for who should come on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Monday 6:10PM-8:15PM:
Parents: reminder that all players must wear white shirts to practice, either the ones they got from us or a shirt that is 95%+ white.
Good weather finally today! The coach has an injured ankle so we could not go for a run :-(
Adamo scored the best goal of the night, it was a beauty.
The 11+ (see 11+ link on top) is designed to prevent injuries in soccer players by working on flexibility and core muscle strength. As the coach is doing it too, he can attest to how hard it is if you are not used to working on all muscles (he is barely able to walk the day after).
We are missing one yellow pinnies and two green ones. Could you please bring them to your next practice. Thanks.
Once in a while we showcase our players' many other talents. These are Dylan's, a very talented artist.
A little water does not deter these players. We had our best run of the season as a group, 4.3Km, all the way to the Woodroffe HS bridge.
Gustavo won races 1 to the top of the bridge, also winning race 2 to the Queensway stop, and Francois won race 3 back to the school. With Dylan all three were among the top 3 in all races. Kudos to all players however, it was a great run.
Tonight, Thursday, we have practice as normal, rain or shine. Players are to please bring running shoes . Please come wearing running shows initially.
Please bring extra pairs of socks, shoes, and a towel, hat, gloves and rain jacket.
Did you watch Real Madrid vs Bayern yesterday? It was an example of how not to defend, and how not to take pks.
Looks at Bayern's defense line.
This one is actually good for defending: back 4 + 6 in front of them. All midfield players must help the defense. The problem with this is that all 11 red players are playing defense, thus the white team is free to attack with 11 too.
NEW! You can now subscribe to receive automatic notifications whenever someone goes for a run. Contact coach for password (in Beta).
Again this year we will have monthly awards.
Player of the Month Award
Given to the player, or players, who attend all (or most) practices, focus 100% of the time, do not goof off, work really hard on improving themselves and the team, work on their fitness, show exemplary teamwork and manners, (chosen by the coaches)
Fitness Awards
Given to the player(s) who runs the most every month. Random draw also for all others who submit more than 3 runs in a month.
Do not miss: Barcelona vs Chelsea, round 2. Today 2:30PM on Sportsnet.
Yesterday the players have started receiving practice jerseys, at no cost. This is unique to our team. They are really nice plain white dry-fit performance jerseys. These are to be worn to every practice. The reason is that it allows players to wear pinnies on top and make two very distinguishable teams, something we have been struggling with.
The players will receive club uniforms in mid May. The 2nd (alternate) color uniform is actually the same shirt they are receiving now, but with the club logo and number on the back.
So in total, the players are receiving 3 shirts/jerseys. We are paying for this 3rd one ourselves (no charge to parents), and there is no cost either for the match jerseys.
We ask that all players take very good care of this shirt. They are not to be worn for anything other than practices (i.e, do not wear them at school). Players may wear other plain white tshirts to practice if they wish (as in 99% white), and they may wear other jerseys to practice, as long as they bring white ones with them and out them ion when we request.
Extra practice shirts may be ordered for $10 each. Please let us know ASAP.
We are very happy to report that we have crossed the 500Km mark in total team distance ran since February. Way to go team! Current distance ran is 528.5Km.
Players should be running 4.5Km on their own this week (7.5Km for those running the 10K in May). Note that you may run in the rain too, you won't get sick from that.
We had 12 fantastic players participating with runs in April so far (thank you!), and 19 team members submitting runs in April. Gustavo and Philip are in the lead for the monthly fitness award. Caroline, Trevor's mom, has already run 105Km this month alone, very impressive. Dylan and Luisa are tied for the fastest run at 12.89Km/h.
Only fit players can play matches! We have less than one month to go now. It is imperative that players work on their fitness on their own.
Kindly submit your runs using our online system.
Barcelona vs Real Madrid is streaming live here (match finished 3:55PM, link removed)
Barcelona was playing 3-3-4 trying to tie the game. They had ball possession, but Real Madrid had control of the match playing defensively.
Juan Mata was subbed at the 73rd minute of Chelsea vs Barcelona. The stats are shown on screen:
Yesterday the intention was to run for 20 mins, we reduced it to 12 minutes as several players were really struggling.
Real Madrid (white) vs Bayern (red) played Tuesday.
Look at the way Real was positioning defenders: What is wrong with this? Is this how we teach you how the support player should be positioned?
Time: 88:45
