Below is a link to a very interesting article, written and posted by the www.Canadakicks.com website, which is dedicated to all things soccer and Canadian. The article highlights some unique aspects of the German soccer model, and some ways in which Canada can learn from - and copy off of - this model in order [...]
Yesterday afternoon I worked at the inaugural TFC II Soccer Camp, run by the staff of International Football Club (IFC) a soccer development company and academy located in Vaughan, Ontario. I am very familiar with IFC, as I have been providing fitness assessments and on-field fitness training for them for over 3 years, since the [...]
Last night I attended the Pan-American Games Women's Soccer match between our Canadian Women's National Team, and Brazil, at a packed Tim Horton's Stadium in Hamilton, Ontario. The match was exciting, and although Canada lost 2-0, there were some positives to take away from the contest for the home team. After having worked directly with [...]
Last night I experienced a "first" in my career. I got to work my first ever senior international soccer game as a fitness coach, with the Canadian National Women's Team at their first match of the 2015 Pan-American Games tournament, versus Ecuador, which Canada won by a score of 5 to 2. The experience was [...]
Below is a link to a fantastic article written by Brian Bickerstaff and posed on vicesports.com last week. This article discusses a company called Double Pass, which is a football consulting firm based out of Brussels, Belgium. I was very impressed after reading about what this company does. Here is a quote from the article: [...]
Soccer Fitness at the 2015 Pan-American Games! We are thrilled to announce that Soccer Fitness President Richard Bucciarelli will be working as Fitness Coach with the Canadian National Women’s Soccer Team at the 2015 Pan-American Games in Toronto this month! Richard will be filling in for the existing Fitness Coach during the first week preparation [...]
Canada’s 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup experience is over. It ended yesterday in their Quarter-Final match against England, when two costly first-half mistakes in the span of three minutes allowed the English team to build a 2-0 lead that the Canadians were not able to overcome, despite a good overall performance throughout the game. Although [...]
Canada's 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup experience is over. It ended yesterday in their Quarter-Final match against England, when two costly first-half mistakes in the span of three minutes allowed the English team to build a 2-0 lead that the Canadians were not able to overcome, despite a good overall performance throughout the game. Although [...]
Over the past two weeks, I had the opportunity to travel to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and then to Montreal, Quebec, to attend three different FIFA Women’s World Cup matches (Australia versus Nigeria and U.S.A. versus Sweden on June 12th, and France versus South Korea on June 21st). Of course, during this time I also watched many [...]
This past weekend, I took a trip to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Thanks to Vanessa Martinez, a friend and colleague of mine and the Head Coach of the University of Manitoba Bison’s Women’s Soccer Team, I had the opportunity to attend some Women’s World Cup matches at the U of M’s beautiful new stadium, and also to [...]