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Sep 2022
21m 45s

Are You Too Short To Be A Good Soccer Pl...

The Soccer Specialist
About this episode

A player (that the coach selected for the team) asked what he could do better to get playing time.  The coach told him to gro.  WTH!?!!  Are you kidding me?  As you can imagine this nonsense fired me up!  Hopefully there's something useful in here for you, like all the things you can do to be a great player that have ZERO to do with your height!

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