Football Education
Wellness to World Cup – Click here For More Info
Growing the Beautiful Game
Soccer is the largest participation sport in Canada and the world, providing healthy physical activity for players at all levels of ability.
At the most basic level of participation, soccer promotes the integrated development and maintenance of the cardiovascular, musculoskeletal and neuromuscular systems. It helps in preventing many conditions and diseases (including heart disease, obesity, and osteoporosis) and enhances the well being of individuals across the nation.
At the high performance level, soccer is a vehicle for elite athlete achievement and hailed internationally as “The Beautiful Game.” It is played with finesse and skills that are difficult to master, and players progress through sequential stages of development to become “world class.”
The complete document “Wellness to World Cup” can be found here:
http://www.bcsoccer.net/bcsa/SOCCER/CSALongTermPlayerDevelopment/tabid/229/Default.aspx
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FIFA Offside Animation – This is a simple animation of Law 11
FIFA Offside Animation - Greater information and interactive-takes a few seconds to load
Field of Play – Interactive flash video on the Field of Play
