U.S. SOCCER FEDERATION RELEASES COMPLETE RETURN TO PLAY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR “PLAY ON” CAMPAIGN DURING COVID-19
“PLAY ON” Phases Provide Guidance for Return to Full-Team Competitions; Each Phase Should Be Implemented Only If and When Local Regulations Deem It Safe
U.S. Soccer has released the final phase of its five-phase PLAY ON campaign, providing coaches, players, parents, referees, and administrators with the complete return-to-play guidelines during COVID-19 to help ensure the safety of all participants.READ MORE
Alan will share advice for elementary, middle school, and physical education teachers on how to integrate proper and effective soccer lesson plans into in-person, hybrid, or distance learning curriculum.
Alan Merrick is an international soccer legend both as a professional player and coach, Alan now dedicates his time to teaching the sport with MOTI Sports’ 3D Mobile Soccer Training Platform.
MOTI Mobile Camera Controls for Drills provides the user with dynamic options to review and study drills. From tracking a player on the field to viewing a drill from overhead to actually being the player, the camera controls provide a multitude of options.
The review of the camera modes will be divided into 4 different parts. Topics for the 4 parts are:
Motion Controls and Overview (this article) – Part 1 will introduce the motion controls available to the user (finger-gestures and on-screen joysticks) and provide a high-level overview of each of the camera modes.
Pivot-In-Place and Rotate-Around-Location – Part 2 covers two modes that provide a very flexible overview of a drill. As a note, Pivot-In-Place is the default mode when a drill starts.
Follow-Player, Follow-Ball, Track-Player, and Track-Ball – Part 3 will explore the ‘follow’ and ‘tracking’ options. These modes facilitate focusing on specific player/ball in a complex drill.
Top-Down Perspective – Part 4 reviews a viewing-mechanism of the field that will be very familiar with users that play some of the most popular real-time strategy games.
Motion Controls
The motion of the camera can be controlled by finger-gestures and by the on-screen joysticks.
Finger Gestures
Common finger gestures are used with the touchscreen. The effect of the finger gestures will change based on the camera mode that is selected. The individual effects will be outlined in the article that contains the camera mode. The following terms in these articles will be used to describe motion on the touchscreen. Currently, the finger gestures are:READ MORE
Teachers Prepare: to teaching Soccer in three scenarios?
As August is here, so is the beginning of school, but now teachers need to prepare to be able to teach in three differing scenarios; traditional classroom (gym, or outside); remote learning, and or a combination.
This spring MOTI released our “OneTeacher: system of soccer skills instruction. Designed after articles published in Shape America (Society of Health and Physical Educators), we put the power of visual 3D learning affordably in the hands of educators like yourself. Plus, we provided you with daily lesson plans to help you do your role in making sure the instruction meets the Power Standards and can be turned in to your Curriculum Manager.READ MORE
Who would have predicted the level of chaos that COVID 19 has brought to the World. The effect of this pandemic and the shutdown has been catastrophic in scope and size. For one minute let’s look at the devastation it has created for Youth Sports, soccer in particular. COVID 19 has forced youth soccer clubs to schedule, reschedule, stay at home, go on hold, completely shut down, to be on stand bye. Then a glimmer of hope with directions of how to return to play and the phase after phase of wait and see.READ MORE
It’s been a long time since we’ve been able to enjoy the
game we all love, and I know you’ve all missed it as much as we have here at
U.S. Soccer.
As soccer starts up again in your community, we realize
coaches like you may have questions about how to return-to-play safely, and
keep the health & wellness of yourself, your players and your soccer
families a top priority. While it’s a new, and at times uncertain, environment,
we are going to navigate this together through knowledge, information and shared
responsibility.READ MORE
Growing up in Elgin Illinois, I lived at the
Elgin Sports Complex. I would hop on my bike and ride as fast as I could so I could
to play a pickup game, watch a game, or do some training soccer myself. Soccer
was and is my addiction! Fast forward to today and I wonder to myself what made
me love the game as much as I do now? Where did it come from? Simple answer, my
parents for signing me up in the first place. But no, it was way deeper than
that. It was the energy that surrounded me which started from my coach. Coach Kari
had this unique way of getting us fired up whether it was for games or
practices. She created the atmosphere to fall in love with this beautiful game.READ MORE
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