tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49584023504584290692024-02-20T10:23:47.261-08:00Coach Jim HomanI coach girls soccer.Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-26497792206410071632014-01-23T10:51:00.005-08:002014-01-23T10:58:35.693-08:00
How To Perform Under Olympic Pressure
This is a from an email that Soccer Psychology Tips sent to me. They have a number of good articles. I recommend checking out the site after you read what is below.
If you have been watching any of the Pre-Olympic interviews, mental game talk is everywhere. Olympians discuss pressure, confidence, focus, and positive self-talk as they prepare for the Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-31819867977883413732013-12-18T10:00:00.000-08:002013-12-03T13:07:59.431-08:00It's not complicated: Play with 11 players!
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One of the most important things you can do on the soccer field is remain "switched on" while you are on the field, playing with all 11 players at the same time, not 4 players who are switched on and 7 players switched off.
Playing with all 11 is a concept that Bill Belichick, one of the best American football coaches, triesCoach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-37344723946727488182013-12-12T06:56:00.000-08:002013-12-03T12:38:01.380-08:00Level of IntensityMost of the clubs we played against gave it their all in the first half. When they found out they couldn’t dominate us, they lost their poise and character. It’s not that we play harder in the second half. We play the same all the way through the game.
--Ray Nitschke, former Green Bay Packer and Hall of Fame Linebacker
Sportswriters will occasionally write that a winning soccerCoach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-66354002475783987402013-12-03T13:57:00.003-08:002013-12-03T13:57:49.943-08:00Cool Like Eli
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Early critics of NY Giants quarterback Eli Manning complained that Eli has been just too passive. He wasn't emotional and looked as if he didn't care a whole lot when he was playing.
Now, after 2 super bowl championships, the very thing that was viewed as weak, is now seen as his strength. He is nowCoach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-47565520386411704722013-10-03T11:06:00.002-07:002013-10-03T11:06:19.522-07:00Love the Challenge
All of us have probably had this experience--we play some sort of game against an opponent who is not very good. Maybe you play basketball with your sibling who is 5 years younger than you. Perhaps you have played a soccer game against a team that had no idea what it was doing. Perhaps you played a board game against an someone who was just not very good at that particular gameCoach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-52845788943973970432012-11-05T08:00:00.001-08:002012-11-06T06:23:35.707-08:00Guest Post: Adversity and Bouncing Back
OFC 97/97 E1 vs Waza FC East 98 Black
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I thought I would share something that a fellow coach wrote recently. He is the assistant coach of the Omaha Football Club 97/98 Elite 1 girls soccer team. The team has struggled recently with their form in the Midwest Regional League, falling from a second place finish in the spring league to now being last in the league. Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-66871613174839332482012-08-03T14:33:00.002-07:002012-08-03T14:46:35.957-07:00Elkhorn Tourney Coming Up! Lessons Learned from New ZealandToday I watched the US Women's National Team play against New Zealand in the quarterfinals of the Olympic Soccer Tournament. New Zealand's record was poor compared to the US. NZ won just one game in their group, the US won 3. The US had beaten NZ the last 8 times the two teams had met. On paper, it looked like a blow out, USA style.
However, New Zealand attacked with Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-43830586226011236652012-07-16T09:50:00.001-07:002012-07-16T10:22:43.474-07:00OFC 00/01 Parent InfoThis post will contain all the info that I will go over at a parent meeting. Everything you need to know in one convenient place. Like shopping at Walmart (sort of.) I would also ask that you have each player read through this page. Please make a comment below and that is how I will know if every family has read through these important points.
Goal
I have 1 goal, "Get to the Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-89212362310055790052012-07-15T11:00:00.000-07:002012-07-15T11:00:16.938-07:00Back After a HiatusBeen awhile since I have posted. I plan to use this space now for update on my 2 favorite teams that I am coaching: the OFC 00/01 Elite 1 girls (Go Solar!) and the girls varsity soccer team at Gross Catholic (Go Cougars!)
The first thing is my virtual parent meeting post coming soon for OFC 00/01. Stay tuned.Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-57450698647315749352011-05-20T11:49:00.000-07:002011-06-09T18:04:09.080-07:00Gross Catholic 9-7.The Gross Catholic Girls Soccer team finished the season with 9 wins and 7 losses. A decent season where we just happened to score 58 goals. I think that total is a GC Girls Soccer record. My records don't go back to pre-historic times (before I was the head coach) but no team that I have coached has scored so many, until now. A job well done.Our final 2 games were opposites. The first game Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-8191917692662804662011-05-02T08:16:00.000-07:002011-05-02T09:07:45.493-07:00Set Back But Not FallenI was watching the second "Transformers" move, "Revenge of the Fallen" on HBO this weekend. It was pretty good, lots of action. The heroes of the movie face many trials and setbacks, but win in the end.Our heroes (the Cougars) started the week with victory but had a couple setbacks since.On Monday, Roncalli gave us some difficulties, not Megatron-level trouble, but trouble all the same. We Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-53261331859148235542011-04-21T15:35:00.001-07:002011-04-21T15:46:15.285-07:00Central, Schuyler and RCCSince we last chatted, twittered, facebooked, or blogged, the Gross Catholic Girls Soccer Team (Go Cougars) has beaten Central 1-0 and Schuyler 7-1. Right now we stand at 7-4 and are riding a 6 game winning streak.At Central on the 16th, the game was played mostly in the midfield. Our breakthrough goal came from Z at about 31 minutes. A through ball was played, Z got there before the keeper, Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-36403275865360562672011-04-15T07:44:00.000-07:002011-04-15T08:23:03.051-07:00Explosion of Goals!Since my last post we have only scored 28 goals over 4 games. An explosion of finishing. What happened? The competition did not play well during this 4 game stretch against South Sioux, Ralston, St. Peter Claver, and Bryan. Some of the programs are struggling at this time. St. Peter Claver is closing at the end of the year. Be that as it may, I have coached teams playing against sputtering Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-15998607404259860862011-04-05T09:36:00.001-07:002011-04-05T09:44:39.329-07:00Roncalli Squeeks by the Cougars.The Cougars came out very strong in the first minutes of the game, creating a number of good chances. Abby was able to run through and poke one in but was ruled offsides by the assistant referee. Even though we were against the wind, we had a lot of possession in the Roncalli end of the field.Roncalli's goal came toward the end of the first half. It looked like one of their players was out of Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-55821361743929049992011-04-05T08:20:00.000-07:002011-04-05T09:36:13.583-07:00Victory Over Beatrice!Another game breakdown from an email from Coach Kim. Remember, I was out of town dealing with my step-moms funeral services. This is for the March 31st game vs Beatrice.Okey dokey here goes. First of all we changed the warm up a bit. We started with a brief game of handball and then did 6v6 plus 6. You know blue and black keeping it away from yellow who is in the middle. Then we did run Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-47281938430386154352011-04-05T08:14:00.000-07:002011-04-05T08:20:39.308-07:00Skyhawks Fly over CougarsOkay here is the breakdown mostly taken from an email from Coach Kim. Overall we played pretty hard at the game on March 28.Lost to Skutt 0-6. Goal One: Came from our left side dribbled across the 18 on the ground about 12 yards out and then an open Skutt girl knocked it in. Goal Two: They did a short corner on the other side...no one went out to pressure. The short corner went to Bartels and Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-44594932312356151992011-03-27T18:47:00.000-07:002011-03-27T19:25:39.799-07:00Central Postponed. Snow Why?OK. The Central game was postponed because it snowed. Who needs snow during the spring sports season? It snow laughing matter. But after we thawed about it, we drifted toward accepting that practice instead of the game would do us some good. We had an avalanche of energy when we practiced Saturday morning at the Omaha Sports Complex. If we play the next game the way we practiced on Saturday, Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-58283507642361510092011-03-23T11:08:00.000-07:002011-03-23T11:22:46.699-07:001-3, 1-3 Echo, Echo.OK Cougars, not a great start to the season if you are basing greatness on our win/loss record. We lost to Duchesne, 1-3. We lost to Bellevue West, 1-3. (Is there an echo in here? Is there an echo...?) The games were similar in score only. Our performance in the BW game was far superior to our first game. In terms of effort, hard work and intensity, we played great in that second game. The Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-67701469589332843092011-03-16T12:39:00.000-07:002011-03-16T12:41:09.662-07:00Open vs DuchesneThe Cougars open the season tomorrow with Duchesne at home (Papillion Soccer Complex) at 4:30. We look forward to the challenge. The team has been training well. Can't wait!Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-84799931791855221282011-02-28T06:18:00.000-08:002011-06-09T18:05:33.874-07:00Waking Up and ChangingOh, my blog has been asleep for awhile, but now we are waking up. (Yawn, yawn, wakey, wakey.) Since my last post, I decided to leave the College of Saint Mary and move on to other things. Move on to what? Bigger and better things? Hope so. The first bigger and better thing is the Gross Catholic Girls Soccer Team. We begin our season today and I am ready and excited about the season. We haveCoach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-30764973949420082672010-10-01T08:07:00.000-07:002010-10-01T09:41:00.951-07:00The Injury Bug Bites the FlamesBellevue 2, CSM 1 is the scoreline for Wednesday's conference opener. 2 players were seriously hurt in the first half and we gave up 2 goals too many.Within the first 5 minutes, one of our players was involved in a collision with a Bellevue player and at first, didn't think much of it. Then blood started soaking through her sock and we took her off the field. When our trainer examined her, we Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-33052043908260044052010-09-25T18:08:00.000-07:002010-09-25T18:45:30.707-07:002 Abbys, One Sweet GoalFive o'clock on a beautiful cool fall afternoon, the sun shining bright after a morning of rain. CSM and Kansas Wesleyan walk on the field at Tranquility park. Little did they know that an epic battle between 2 storied programs was about to commence. (I sound like NFL Films.)Honestly, in the first half, we struggled. We seemed to be content with just sagging back and playing defense with Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-1635736847350920512010-09-18T14:16:00.000-07:002010-09-18T14:26:08.699-07:00CSM vs Graceland: A Rocky-esque EffortI told the team at halftime of the game today that they were kinda like Rocky. They took some hits but kept moving forward. I told them they just needed to do more of the same and do the simple things and they will have success.We did take a "knock-down" and conceded a goal about halfway through the second period. But, we picked ourselves back up and kept on. The defense was a wall after thatCoach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-86395418602271046222010-09-13T13:42:00.001-07:002010-09-13T14:05:05.264-07:00A Few Games Later...My intention is to post something at least after every soccer game. Well, the intention did not get translated to action this past week. Quick recap, we are doing a number of things well, but not quite enough. Also, we have been coming in second instead of first lately. Our first game in California was played in over 100 degree heat on a turf field (which always raises the temp even further.)Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4958402350458429069.post-1991520276246813182010-09-03T08:36:00.001-07:002010-09-03T08:44:53.997-07:00Everything is Kung Fu and KetchupWe are now in sunny California. Got in last night without many problems at all (except I am traveling with a bunch of crazy, goofy soccer players.)The flight was long but we did get a movie (The Karate Kid.) Jackie Chan (playing the "Mr. Miyagi" part) said, "Everything is Kung-FU" and I belive him. So, if that is true, soccer is Kung-Fu. Today we need to gather our Chi and fight our way Coach Jim Homanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15360359535584484786noreply@blogger.com0