Coaching Notes
How to Plan a Football Training Session for Adult Amateurs
It is 7.25 on a wet Tuesday, the pitch is booked until 9, and you were promised eighteen players.
In 2002 Argentina asked FIFA if it could leave the number 10 out of its World Cup squad, as a tribute to Diego Maradona. FIFA said no.
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