The Soccer Rhythm Is In The Music

Feel The Soccer Rhythmown music with a beat that is inescapable.
     Last spring I was sitting in a local park just     It is such a pleasure to watch Lionell Messi
enjoying a beautiful day.  There was a couple with aplay as he is a picture of rhythm in motion. 
small boy maybe two or three years old sitting closeRonaldinho is another example and there are so many
by at a picnic table listening to some pop music.  Theothers.  Even the Spanish and Italians have their
baby was standing on the table and just dancingrhythm.  I use to love to watch Luis Figo darting up
away.  It was so unusual and almost shocking toand down the field in his quick harmonious style.
see.  I mean this boy had the beat like Michael     Having young soccer players with this innate
Jackson use to.  I didn't see him moon walk orbeat and rhythm is a dream come true for soccer
anything but he was really going at it.  He had thecoaches.  Young soccer players with this ability seem
rhythm and beat down.  After watching for awhile Ito pick up soccer skills and soccer tactics so quickly
got up and went over to the mother and told herand naturally and are a true pleasure to coach and
how amazed I was at how her son could dance likewatch play this beautiful game.
that.  She told me that he loved to dance and that     The U.S.A. has some of the best soccer
when she was carrying him she could feel him dancetraining facilities in the world and it seems ashamed
in her stomach.  I told her that her kid had thenot to fill them with little Lionell Messi' and
potential to be a great athlete if he was lead in thatRonaldinhos'.  I think it might be a good idea to learn
direction.  I thought to myself how I would love toa thing or two from the Samba kings and start music
coach this boy in soccer as he was growing up.soccer therapy for the youngins, I mean it can't
     Then I started to think how this might play ahurt.  If they don't play soccer at least they might
significant role in why children develop soccer skills soturn into great dancers.  I have seen some coaches
well in Latin countries.  There is that omnipresentusing music while performing soccer skill training
Latin beat that just seems to permeate thesessions but I think it has to start very early in the
atmosphere and gets into your blood and stays withhome.  It will take more then a couple of years to
you your entire life.  I was thinking the Brazilianget the results but I think that it may be worth a
samba and all the great players that have come outshot.
of that great country.  Every Latin country has its