As time goes by and we build a library of articles, we will archive and categorize everything. This will make it easy for you, the reader, to quickly go to those articles that are of particular interests to you.

For instance, if you are a club executive charged with assessing and evaluating the type of soccer camp would be most suitable for your club members, then Mick Hoban’s excellent Soccer Biz article in this issue would be a must read, but in twelve months time we would like to have two or three others to go with it.

Craig Brown recently stepped down as the Scotland National Team coach. He has done an exceptional job over an 8-year period. The beneficiaries now will be community coaches as he devotes more of his time to coach education. He is an excellent clinician and will be in Kansas City in February of next year. See Craig’s article in the Coaching Department and find out more about the International Coaching Seminar (go to www.worldclasscoaching.com).

The National Soccer Coaches Association of Canada (NSCAC) is holding it’s 4th nationwide Interactive Coaching Symposium. There could be as many as five cities linked up from East to West by satellite. Among a full slate of talent is Dick Bate, the England U16 coach and Dr. Don Kirkendall, the internationally renowned fitness expert, who wrote about the new drink supplement, Accelerade, in the last issue of Down-the-Line. For more information on the NSCAC symposium Email Nicole Valiquette (nscacsymposium).

Hope you enjoy Issue #4 and please let us know what you think. Both the Parent Department and the Psychology section have articles on parental behavior. It’s a particularly contentious area in soccer and all sports these days.

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Tony Waiters