#614: Grassroots Pt. 1 — Tom Byer on soccer starting at home

The best soccer players all have one thing in common. They
learned to love the soccer ball at home. Tom Byer, a former pro
in Japan whose book “Football Starts at Home,” is probably known
to many of you, is a passionate advocate not just for early
childhood ball mastery, but also for the critical importance of
the parent-child relationship in skill development, and the
knock-on benefits for kids of learning to focus on the ball.


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