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irlZaphod posted:I just showed up and started playing without warming up I think I've identified the problem.
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First training session with the village team tonight, first time playing properly in years. Worried I will have lost all my pace now I'm an old man (22) and can't play left wing anymore 
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^^^^ Christ I wish I was still 22Xylorjax posted:I think I've identified the problem.
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I gave up playing football when i was 18 due to constantly being taken out after i done someone and mass brawls on the pitch after the match every week. I thought i'd try some some 5 a-side a few years later but guess what? its still exactly the same. I dont see the point in knobs ruining a game of football because they're losing and go out to hurt you because they're poo poo. Too much of a risk to get a broken leg and be off work months on end without pay.
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Sep 13, 2011 13:46
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Where the hell do you play football?
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Sep 13, 2011 14:48
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At Her Majesty's pleasure, it sounds like.
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Sep 13, 2011 15:03
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irlZaphod posted:Where the hell do you play football? Stevenage/Hitchin Is it not like this throughout the UK then? :-/ Maybe i just have one of those faces....
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Sep 13, 2011 15:27
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Rossy posted:Stevenage/Hitchin
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Sep 13, 2011 15:31
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Rossy posted:Stevenage/Hitchin Isn't Stevenage where supporters invade the pitch and punch their own players for beating Premiership sides?
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This post is out of nowhere but I'm excited so I'll post anyways. I play division 3 soccer in the United States at a small college in Ohio. I'm a sophomore starter, was a starter last year as well. Last year our team went (6-7-3) and lost or tied every conference game, so it was a disaster. This year we switched up the lineup to a 4-3-3 and I'm stuck playing left wing back. I'm really fast so I tear up the wing, but I hate getting back on defense and would much prefer being up top or even as an attacking midfielder. Coach says I'm a natural wing back though(keeps comparing me to Gareth Bale, but I'd rather be an RvP). Anyways our first home game is today at 5pm. We're (2-1-0) so far this season but our team looks a lot better in my opinion. We play an NAIA team today, which means they have unlimited scholarship money to lure Brazilians and Brits to their lovely rear end school, so they'll be stacked with the shittiest Brazilians and British footballers you'll ever see. Should be fun.
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Rossy posted:Stevenage/Hitchin
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The Saurus posted:First training session with the village team tonight, first time playing properly in years. Worried I will have lost all my pace now I'm an old man (22) and can't play left wing anymore i stopped playing when i was 18 and picked it back up when i was 23 and still haven't lost a step at 28 hope this helps
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Sep 13, 2011 22:22
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mang posted:i stopped playing when i was 18 and picked it back up when i was 23 and still haven't lost a step at 28 hope this helps same here but i started playing again when I was 26.
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Sep 13, 2011 22:42
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Ninpo posted:Isn't Stevenage where supporters invade the pitch and punch their own players for beating Premiership sides? haha yeah. Full of knobs. The Stevenage player used to go out with the girl who is now going out with the fan that punched him. Maybe he doesnt like sloppy seconds? Heres the vid of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcZ7Zsg3Qok
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Played my first game for my new team today (indoor, goalie). Good fun, but jesus gently caress am I stiff now. Pulled out a couple of absolute robbery saves (one where I read a top-corner shot and got a hand to it to push it over, and another where I dove the wrong way, but got a toe to the ball to knock it onto the crossbar and back to me), but lost on penalties. (Our penalty got DQ'ed because of a stutter-step [house rules], then I read their kicker like a book but second-guessed myself and stood still as the ball went exactly where I thought it was going to go.  )Kneepadchat: I wear nike volleyball kneepads (like these except mine are grey instead of black because I've had them for ten years), gently caress astroturf burns. Also gently caress astroturf burns getting infected and turning my entire knee joint into an inflated pus balloon. Jus' saying. Other indoor goalies: do you guys wear shinpads/etc? I got a few odd looks when I turned up with shinpads/kneepads/gloves today, literally no-one else in any of the four games on had any sort of protective equipment.  (Odd looks don't bother me in the slightest - as long as my kit gives me the confidence to go full stretch on concrete-backed astroturf, I'm going to keep using it.)
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Sep 20, 2011 11:57
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Don't wear kneepads you pansy
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Sep 20, 2011 12:07
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Ewar Woowar posted:Don't wear kneepads you pansy Honestly I'm fine with bruises, but astroturf burns that take months to disappear are just a bit too annoying.
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Sep 20, 2011 12:20
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Yeah that fake turf stuff with the small black rubber bits just straight up burns holes in your knees that take weeks and weeks to heal and weep all the time
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Sep 20, 2011 12:26
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Astroturf is loving lethal and I refuse to play anything on it.
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Oi lads, studying abroad over in Budapest this semester. Had a trip to the southern part of the country where us Americans were gifted to a match versus some local Hungarians. I ended up being the only actual player in our group so of course I had to play all 40 minutes of the match. I recently dislocated my knee cap (~3 months ago) and have had a hard time coming back from the injury, struggling with things like patellar tendonitis in both of my knees. We ended up going down 0-4 in the first half.. and boy was I frustrated. Luckily, I managed to take out my frustration in the second half and I scrapped 2 goals into the net followed by 2 assists to our 6'10 Peter Crouch off corners. In the end, we lost in the final minutes from a ridiculous header as our amateur keeper came out 10 feet to punch the ball... oh well! Past few days I've been suffering dearly with my right knee (I dislocated my left knee) giving way numerous times during the day... very, very frustrating and painful! By the way, Hungarians really are not that good at football... can't wait to build up some strength in the knees and get out here on the pitch in Budapest!
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Hungarians poo poo at football? But Honved and Wolverhampton wanderers were the entire reason for the existence of the champions league!
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I think it's just the Hungarians you were playing with, the ones I played with here were pretty good.
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The Saurus posted:Astroturf is loving lethal and I refuse to play anything on it. Yeah, I just wear pants now cos Astroturf is the worst. Started playing at a new place with a rubberised surface though, and it's way nicer to fall on. We lost our finals series at indoor last week, although it was set up stupid with a semi-final and final on the same night, and the semi being 1st vs 2nd, which we lost 10-2. Had a grading game this week, and 2 of our players showed up late, so we had to play 5 min with only 3 men. I scored our first goal, then got shin splints about 10 min later and just couldn't run anymore, so I kept for the rest of the game. Havn't kept in about a year, and only conceded one. Anyway, is there anything you can do for shin splints? They hurt like gently caress.
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NinjaSteve posted:Anyway, is there anything you can do for shin splints? They hurt like gently caress. Sit on your heels with your toes pointing back and hold for a minute or so, or as long as feels comfortable. That stretches out the tendons that run through the shin. Edit: not a one time exercise, the flexibility is something you need to develop over time. Ming the Merciless fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Sep 21, 2011 |
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Shin splint stretch with lovely cell phone example: Sit and cross your leg, putting your right ankle on your left knee. Take the top of your right foot in your left hand and place the heel of your right hand against the back of your right heel for leverage. Pull the top of your foot and toes to stretch that muscle, moving your foot around to where you feel the best stretch. Do this for about 10-20 seconds, firmly massage the muscle for a few more, then do the other leg. You can't really do this with shoes/ankle guards/shin guards on, so do it before you gear up. It also helps to do it two or three times a day, not just before you play. Do it while you're watching tv or taking a dump or whatever. Once I added this to my regular warm-up/stretch routine the pain all but disappeared. Remember to do standing calf/hamstring stretches as well.
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irlZaphod posted:I think it's just the Hungarians you were playing with, the ones I played with here were pretty good. They were all pretty old too. The Brazilian-Hungarians (born in Brazil, raised in Hungary) were young and pretty drat good. Their 50-year-old Hungarian keeper kept making these ridiculous saves in the first half, too... frustrating to say the least.
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I quit playing soccer 3 or 4 years ago before I started high school. Now I'm a senior in high school and tryouts are in three weeks and I hear our team is poo poo so I'm trying out. I just kicked around today with a friend and realized that I too am pretty poo poo so if anyone has any suggestions on how to become a baller in three weeks I'm all ears.
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NinjaSteve posted:Astroturf is the worst. i know some stadiums have turf. do the pros use the same artificial stuff that we do??
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FortCastle posted:I quit playing soccer 3 or 4 years ago before I started high school. Now I'm a senior in high school and tryouts are in three weeks and I hear our team is poo poo so I'm trying out. I just kicked around today with a friend and realized that I too am pretty poo poo so if anyone has any suggestions on how to become a baller in three weeks I'm all ears. Get in shape. 3 weeks isn't enough time to become a great player, but if you can run harder longer than the other guy, you can at least make it interesting.
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FortCastle posted:I quit playing soccer 3 or 4 years ago before I started high school. Now I'm a senior in high school and tryouts are in three weeks and I hear our team is poo poo so I'm trying out. I just kicked around today with a friend and realized that I too am pretty poo poo so if anyone has any suggestions on how to become a baller in three weeks I'm all ears. Don't be poo poo If you're serious, which you probably aren't, have a ball at your feet loving constantly. Your touch is probably complete poo poo, so that'll be the first thing you need to get up. gently caress learning how to finish, you're going to poo poo your pants any time you get near the goal so whatever. Also don't be a pussy. There, you can play wingback now (if you can run a lot I guess)
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My soccer league starts soon I'm kind of poo poo, but I've been doing lots of cardio 
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FortCastle posted:if anyone has any suggestions on how to become a baller in three weeks I'm all ears. Work on your fitness and strength and keep stuff simple.
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Starting our leagues tonight, we've an 11 a side team and a 5 a side. I'm on the 5 a side. We actually have a pretty strong team now I think, and have a coach who's been working on our fitness and stuff, so hopefully we'll do ok. The 5 a side squad isn't the strongest, but we'll see what happens. I just wish I was fitter.
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euroboy posted:Work on your fitness and strength and keep stuff simple. This. Get a ball, find a wall and practice passing to it/controlling the rebound with both feet, shoot at it, kill the rebound, throw/kick the ball high in the air and practice chesting it down or trapping it underfoot, put chalk Xs on the wall and shoot at them etc.
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nthig the 'get in shape and also just have a ball attached to your feet for the next three weeks' even if you are poo poo, being able to keep running gives you a massive advantage over everyone else, and if you get your first touch down, you have a shitload more time to do everything else
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tbp posted:Don't be poo poo Thanks for the replies everyone, I was in fact at least semi-serious when asking for advice. Luckily I'm already in decent shape and I'm doing conditioning with the team. I've mostly been doing juggling and touch work by myself during the week and I'm getting together with some friends to play on the weekend. I went out to some fields today and shot and I'm not nearly as bad as I though I would be so hopefully I can at least get to be decent in the next few weeks.
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FortCastle posted:Thanks for the replies everyone, I was in fact at least semi-serious when asking for advice. Luckily I'm already in decent shape and I'm doing conditioning with the team. I've mostly been doing juggling and touch work by myself during the week and I'm getting together with some friends to play on the weekend. I went out to some fields today and shot and I'm not nearly as bad as I though I would be so hopefully I can at least get to be decent in the next few weeks. Touch work is good. However, you'll want to work on controlling poo poo passes too, so find a wall and feed yourself poo poo passes.  (All the passes are poo poo. All of them.) Speaking of poo poo passes, we got shelled today in our indoor game. Some of that shelling was due to me (goalie) passing like poo poo. Anyone got any tips for good passing? We're using an indoor ball (soft bouncy green thing) and I'm getting grumbled at because I can't stop the loving thing bouncing when I'm trying to throw it to feet (I'm used to futsal balls, which bounce like a block of lead). Would I be better off passing using my feet?
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Either play it with your feet or roll it underarm. If you have to throw it further then make sure it bounces no further than 2/3 of the way to your teammate, that way after the bounce it will be coming back down by the time he receives it which is much easier to control.
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Just throw it directly at them and then blame their lack of control
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Scikar posted:Either play it with your feet or roll it underarm. If you have to throw it further then make sure it bounces no further than 2/3 of the way to your teammate, that way after the bounce it will be coming back down by the time he receives it which is much easier to control. Also don't throw overarm with those things, go for more of a sideways whip or the thing will bounce like dambusters.
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