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MISL 2008 PLAYOFF TEAM BY TEM:

A report about every team in the MILS 2008 playoff (see here)

CANADA CITY GET $3 MILLION INDOOR SOCCER FACILITY

Prince Edward Island's first indoor soccer facility will be built over this summer. The 64,000-square-foot building will be located next to four outdoor soccer fields in Stratford, just across the Hillsborough River from Charlottetown. Construction will begin this spring and the $3-million facility is expected to be ready by the fall. (Read More)

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MISL POSTSEASON DRIVE HIGHLIGHTED ON FOX SOCCER CHANNEL

The drive towards the 2008 Major Indoor Soccer League Championship Series heats up on Fox Soccer Channel's MISL Game of the Week as game action for Week 16 commences. ... (Read more)

METATARSAL FRACTURE AND FOOTBALL

One of the most common injuries in the history of sports is the metatarsal fracture. This kind of injury has been very arresting in the history of sports in the past 5 years. Several high- profiled athletes suffered from the same injury- David Beckham, Wayne Rooney, Ashley Cole, and Steve Gerrard. The anatomy of the foot will however help us understand this injury better and deeper ...(Read the article from Ezine Articles.com)

INDOOR SOCCER: SHOULDER WITH SHOULDER

Sometime player are charging another players so hard, sending the opponent violently against the wall: that's foul!
Indoor soccer is played in a hockey ring, but it is not hockey.
Shoulder with shoulder have a limit: safety (Read more)

INDOOR SOOCER OFFERS YEAR ROUND EXPERIENCE

Indoor soccer tournaments have become a significant draw in the past 12 years for local players and parents who want their children to have year-round soccer experience. Rushmore Soccer Club, Spearfish Soccer Club and Rapid City Youth Soccer League all offer indoor soccer leagues. (Article from Rapid City Journal)

FUTSAL: GREAT OFF-SEASON TRAINING!

Futsal is great for young players. It provides numerous ball touches in a short period of time and it presents many of the fundamental tactical patterns of the big soccer game. The game contains many of the challenges faced in the final third of the field and provides repeated opportunities to finish. (Go to the article)

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INDOOR SOCCER: COMMON INJURIES

An overview on common indoor soccer injuries, and how to avoid it (Go to the article)

FUTSAL: DEVELOPING PLAYER SKILLS

Futsal may to be a good tool developing player's skill (Read here)

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INDOOR SOCCER: ADVANTAGE AND SIX FOULS RULE

Sometimes is better to call a foul that to give and advantage, even if player complain about it (Read article)

FUTSAL: RULES OVERVIEW

A quick overview to Futsal rules (Read here)

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INDOOR SOCCER OR FUTSAL: THAT'S THE QUESTION

What is better? that's the question, but it has not an easy answer. With passion people talk about pro's and con's about one or another,. See what they say clicking here.

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INDOOR SOCCER RED CARD:

Even when the basic is the same, there are many differences about when to show red card between USSF and USIndoor (See the article)

FUTSAL & INDOOR SOCCER

A short report about differences and commons between futsal and indoor soccer., from the Manual of Sports Medicine. (Go to original report)

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BLUE CARD SHOWED IN INDOOR SOCCER

How many time are you listening players asking for a blue card?
This is a common word in indoor soccer: "blue card!", "show a blue!", "that's for blue", etc.
However, we must to remember that not all fouls are considered for show a blue card.
The simple rule is that blue card is showed when a player is committing any of these offeenses... (Go to the article)

INDOOR REF's SIGNALS:

Usually referees are using signals for let players, and people, to know what they are calling. Here the usual signals approved by United State Soccer Federation for indoor games (Click here)

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RULES CLARIFICATION: Power Play, Delayed Blue, Yellow Card.

The last part of Herb Silva report (Read)

INDOOR IS REALLY INTENSE IN KERNSTOWN

While outdoor soccer allows for more space between the competing teams’ goals, indoor soccer has a short distance between them, creating more direct contact among players. "The ball is just flying everywhere,"... (Read Article)

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RULES CLARIFICATION - REF'S ADVICE: Part 2

Encroachment vs. delayed restart, and game control among the main topics in this article... (Read)

WHAT A SHOW! INDOOR SOCCER ENTERTAINING

Canada Major OSccer League started last Friday... (Read)

CHICAGO PRO WOMEN TEAM NAMED GM

Former Northwestern women's soccer head coach Marcia McDermott has been appointed the general manager of Chicago's new pro women's soccer franchise (Read)

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RULES CLARIFICATIONS - REF's ADVICE:

Every day players, fans, referees and coaches have questions about rules, sometime they are confused about indoor and outdoor rules, but this is not a new subject.
On Friday Aug 03, 2001, Herb Silva (MISL Director of Officials), made a report about regular MISL season controversial incidents. I extracted from this article many situation that are related with everyday indoor soccer games... (read more)

CITY ONE-UPS SUBURBS WITH NEW INDOOR SOCCER CENTER: Once blighted area now sports haven... (From Chicago Sun Times)

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SHOOT OUT: CLARIFICATIONS

Almost every indoor soccer player know what shoot out is, but some time they don't know its rules and mechanics (even referees)... (Read more)

OHIO UNIVERSITY TO BEGIN INDOOR SOCCER LEAGUE

The Ohio State University at Marion is starting the Scarlet Wave Club Soccer League for middle school, high school and adults. The indoor league will start the weekend of Jan. 19... (Read more)

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS STADIUM EXPANDING

Businessman David Asper is unveiling plans to expand the use of a proposed new stadium for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He's proposing to build an inflatable Tadlar bubble or dome over the playing field. (More)

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NUMBERED JERSEY

Almost all facilities, leagues, association rules stipulate that correct equipment include the NUMBERED JERSEY, and usually establish standards about how and where it should be, size., etc. ...(Read more)

INDOOR SOCCER SUBSTITUTIONS

Freely, unlimited substitutions is the rules, but how is the question, and what about goalkeeper substitutions?... (Read more)

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FORT COLLINS OFFER NEW INDOOR SOCCER SURFACE

(ColoradoAN.com): The city of Fort Collins is offering indoor youth soccer programs this winter for the first time. The new Fort Collins Indoor Soccer Club is going to lease the rink from O.D.'s and is paying roughly $100,000 for renovations that include an AstroTurf GameDay 3D playing surface, that the manufacturer said offers the durability and safety of artificial fields like those at Poudre School District's French Field and Colorado State University's Hughes Stadium without the need for as much of the rubber filling that gets into players' clothing and eyes... (Read the article)

AUBURN HOPE TO SCORE WITH INDOOR SOCCER (The News Tribune)

Can soccer moms – not to mention dads and youths – help kick-start downtown economic development? .That’s the hope of Auburn city officials, who are looking for a qualified developer to build an indoor youth soccer facility on a block of downtown property... The connection between indoor soccer and economic development seems logical, ... (Read Article)

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THE EASY GUIDE TO SOCCER RULES:

The title is not so original, truly I took it from a website that was promoting a book about soccer rules for parents. They say : "It sure would be nice to know the soccer rules.

Have you ever said that? I haven’t either. Seriously though, most parents in the US have never played the game and don’t know much about the rules of soccer – kind of like trying to watch hockey in Alabama".(Read this article )

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INDOOR SOCCER CHECKLIST:

When you are going to play, there a minimun set that you must to remember. (Read more)

GOALKEEPER, PRIVILEGES AND RESTRICTIONS:

Usually special rules apply to the goalkeeper that do not apply to the other players. These rules are often instituted to protect the goalkeeper, being an obvious target for dangerous or even violent actions. (Read more)

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HOW TO AVOID SOCCER INJURIES (from ezinearticles.com)

Soccer is a physical game that can subject players to potential injuries, some of which can be quite serious. Although physical contact between players is not a planned part of the game, the inevitable clashes during a match are as much a part of the game as controlling the ball.... (Read Article)

INDOOR SOCCER ON FOX SC SCHEDULE:

Fox Soccer Channel's coverage of the Major Indoor Soccer League's MISL Game of the Week airs every Friday night from November through March. The 20-game schedule for 2007/08 - the most comprehensive national television coverage in the league's seven-year history - features all U.S.-based MISL teams appearing at least four times... (Whole News Here)

COED MALE SCORING:

Even with clear rule about males scoring, sometime COED games bring many questions about this. Common rules are... (Read the article)

INDOOR SOCCER RULES OVERVIEW:

Rules vary between governing bodies, but some of the nearly universal rule deviations from association football include: The team. Most indoor soccer games are played with six active players per team, one of which is the goalkeeper. Substitute players are permitted... (Read more)

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PROFESSIONAL TEAM HOME AT EULESS:

Professional Team DFW Doom will play at home in Eulles Arena Athletic. That was announced in the facility web page, and also by the Independent Indoor Football Alliance (IIFA), that also announced that DFW Doom will host the 1st League Tryout in January 2008.... (Read more)

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SLIDE TACKLE:

Most facilities ban slide tackle for any level of players, and many of them ban any play when players are on the ground. In facilities that play under North Texas State Soccer rules, slide tackle is banned only for COED games...(Read more)

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