| Feel The Soccer Rhythm | | | | own 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 a | | | | play as he is a picture of rhythm in motion. |
| small boy maybe two or three years old sitting close | | | | Ronaldinho is another example and there are so many |
| by at a picnic table listening to some pop music. The | | | | others. Even the Spanish and Italians have their |
| baby was standing on the table and just dancing | | | | rhythm. I use to love to watch Luis Figo darting up |
| away. It was so unusual and almost shocking to | | | | and 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 or | | | | beat and rhythm is a dream come true for soccer |
| anything but he was really going at it. He had the | | | | coaches. Young soccer players with this ability seem |
| rhythm and beat down. After watching for awhile I | | | | to pick up soccer skills and soccer tactics so quickly |
| got up and went over to the mother and told her | | | | and naturally and are a true pleasure to coach and |
| how amazed I was at how her son could dance like | | | | watch 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 dance | | | | training facilities in the world and it seems ashamed |
| in her stomach. I told her that her kid had the | | | | not to fill them with little Lionell Messi' and |
| potential to be a great athlete if he was lead in that | | | | Ronaldinhos'. I think it might be a good idea to learn |
| direction. I thought to myself how I would love to | | | | a 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 a | | | | hurt. If they don't play soccer at least they might |
| significant role in why children develop soccer skills so | | | | turn into great dancers. I have seen some coaches |
| well in Latin countries. There is that omnipresent | | | | using music while performing soccer skill training |
| Latin beat that just seems to permeate the | | | | sessions but I think it has to start very early in the |
| atmosphere and gets into your blood and stays with | | | | home. It will take more then a couple of years to |
| you your entire life. I was thinking the Brazilian | | | | get the results but I think that it may be worth a |
| samba and all the great players that have come out | | | | shot. |
| of that great country. Every Latin country has its | | | | |