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Soccer

Summer means end-of-season tournaments, vacations, and planning those upcoming fall coaches meetings! Make this year's meeting special by handing a CoachDeck to all of your valuable volunteers.

In this issue: New contributor Dave Simeone provides the first in a three-part series on a trap we all fall into at one time or another: Over-coaching. Important for coaches of all ages! "The Most Rewarding Career" is the topic of this month's article by Brian Gotta. And John Ellsworth's "Five Keys to Sustaining Motivation to the Finish" offers clear advice for athletes and their parents.    

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"Where does the time go?" This was one of my mother's favorite sayings when I was a child. Now I know what she means. Just the other day I was in the grocery and a good friend, Katie, walked up in line behind me. Her son, Gus, was a 12 year-old on the first Majors team I coached. She said, "Can you believe that boy you taught to play baseball just graduated from college?" No, Katie, I can't.
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