In order to become the best soccer player you can be, you want to be able to move fast. But there’s much more to this than just being able to simply outrun your opposition. For one, it’s not just pure speed that is useful, but also being able to change your pace at key moments. […]
Speed
Speed vs. Acceleration in Soccer
In his ode to the beautiful game, the book Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano describes the movement of all-time great forward Alfredo Di Stefano: He would change flanks and change rhythm with the ball, from a lazy trot to an unstoppable cyclone; without the ball he’d evade his marker to gain […]
