When I watch my kid's team, I'm not really watching the score. I'm watching whether they can create goal-scoring opportunities consistently — inside a game model and a style of play, rather than by…
Winning and losing tells you almost nothing about whether your kid's team is actually developing. I break down the real signals I look for after a decade of watching games as a soccer parent — the…
Fitness doesn't fit the narrative — it's not fun, it's not easy to sell, so it quietly gets left out of the conversation around player development. In this episode, I dig into why fitness actually…
I've spent 15 years watching parents try to talk coaches into playing their kid a different position — and I've learned it rarely works the way people hope. In this episode, I share why those…
In this episode, I take on a claim I hear constantly in coaching circles — that you can't teach a skill you can't perform, or that you can't teach soccer if you haven't played at a high level. I break…
In this episode, I answer a parent's question about whether to approach their U9 son's coach about moving him from striker to wing, where he seems to perform better. I push back on the instinct to…
In this episode, I record a personal audio message to my sons reflecting on the choices behind our youth soccer decisions — specifically my younger son's move from a larger club to the smaller club…
I sat down with Carlos Mojica, author of Goal, for a special edition of The Inside Scoop — part book talk, part oral history of soccer in El Salvador. Carlos walks me through discovering the game…
How many hours does it actually take to go pro? In this episode, we sit down with Erik McCue, a professional footballer, to get an honest, no-hype breakdown of what real youth training looked like on…
Goals For Good is more than a giveaway — it's Park-It Management's way of giving back to the game that shaped so many lives, including COO Derek Messulam's own. Derek moved from England to the US at…
