How to Prepare for High School Soccer

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Guillermo Gomez and I coach soccer and today I would like to talk to you about how you can prepare yourself for high school soccer. As an eighth grader what you want to actually do is go to a high school and check out their games. You know check the varsity or the jv teams and check the intensity of the games. This sort of will give you an idea of the expectations of a player in high school. You know before pre-season starts you want to make sure that you are in good shape. It is very important. You want to look at your long distance running and then you also want to look at your quick turns and change of direction since that is what you do most of the time in the game of soccer. You should be able to run 2 miles under 16 minutes and I would push it back to 15 minutes that is something that you should be able to do. Before you go into the precision training again make sure that you are in good shape and talk to the players that play high school so you understand the expectations. Because not only will you be concentrating on the game of soccer but then you are moving from middle school to high school so now you have to pay attention to see if you can balance your studies with the sport and you want to make sure that you are successful with both. Thanks. So make sure you eat healthy as well and if you have the opportunity to talk with a soccer coach I would recommend that you go and do that and ask him how you can prepare for preseason training."