In their striped red and white jerseys, the USA Women’s Soccer team faces the 2012 London Olympics with prowess. The team made up of many veterans, is experienced, fierce, 100 percent tough, and absolutely incredible to watch. In the final minutes of their match against Columbia, the team was up 3-0 and finishing with confidence. Glued to the TV, I’ve pieced together each goal and wondered, “How am I going to implement these techniques and what will it take to make it work?”
Returning for my third year, I have set the bar high for Wildcat Soccer. Touch, touch, pass, move, change direction, and so on. Every movement of the USA team involves skill, but what sets them a part is their ability to improvise and move off the ball. I’m incredibly humbled as I watch them move with ball with such poise, but then I think, “This is doable!” Preseason is right around the corner. My girls should be ready to play tactically AND technically, simply because this kind of movement is surrounded with possibility.
