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It appears as though the winds of summer have brought us some good old fashioned soccer mania. First the Pro Trainer staff visited the Far West Region Championships in Lancaster CA to watch the State Cup champs from 14 western states battle it out for the right to go the National Championships in Lancaster MA in July. Lancaster CA is normally a toasty hot place in summer but this year we got lucky and had very mild weather with only one day in the 90’s. Made for some nice playing weather. Once again Cal South had the most success but overall there was some great soccer played all around the massive complex of fields in Lancaster.
Then the Confederations Cup came along and we thought it was three and out for the USA until the shocker game against Egypt put them through to the semis. Who could have imagined such a result. Then a match up with Spain! I would not have bet on them to do well against Spain but to all of our surprise they played wonderful and won. Wow.
The final against Brazil actually seems to have brought out some national soccer pride in the USA and that is good thing that needs to be built up as much as possible to help motivate our young players to rise to the national levle and represent out nation on the global stage of soccer.
And finally some of this soccer mania seems to be hitting us as well. Our markjeting efforts have yielded an unprecedented number of requests for our free DVD of the Pro Trainer soccer ball machine. We will be behind scheudle in full filling those requests due to the large number but that is a good problem to have these days.
We just sold a new Pro Trainer to a young lady back east who is 16 years old. Her Mom tells me that she saved up her money and instead of buying a car at age 16 she is buying a Pro Trainer soccer ball machine so she can work on her first touch. Well Mom is helping to pay for it too.
Mom says she loves the game so much that it is more important to her than a car. I guess she has worked with one of our machines at her high school in the past and saw how it could help her game. (Oh and she told me she found our machine by watching our videos on YouTube. I love the Internet!)
Coming back from knee surgery she sees this as the perfect training tool to help her polish her game and adapt to some new things like wearing a ACL brace on her knee.
We sure wish her the best and we know that the Pro Trainer will give her a good shot at building her soccer skills every session.
I will get the video and put it up here but I just had to post about what I saw in the EPL highlights last night. In a game in England an assistant referee went down on the pitch with what appeared to be a lower back strain. He was in pain. The referee and the GKer nearest to him ran over to chek him out.
The GKer spoke with him and then bent over and picked up the AR’s flag off the ground. He turned to the bench are 60 yards away and waved the flag over his head and then he did a perfect signal for substitution with the flag.
It was so perfect. Imagine a player getting the mechanics right!. I was impressed.
Don’t know how serious the injury was to the AR but I hope it is not bad.
As for the goalie. Well he now has a new career after he wraps his playing career!
Now you can follow us on both Facebook and Twitter. Pro Trainer soccer has a new company page on Facebook to interact with soccer players and customers. We also have a brand new Twitter account going to track the world of soccer news and the latest info about our Pro Trainer soccer ball machine.
