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Will Parchman
@WillParchman
Columnist for @theathleticsccr. Previously!: @topdrawersoccer, @mls, @soundersfc, @whatahowler.
Jun 27, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
This is so stupid but I have to talk about that Messi two-touch goal against Nigeria for a minute. I’ve never seen anything like it before. I frankly don’t think many understand how impossible that was. Messi’s first touch hit the outside of his left thigh, which he planned, as he swept his momentum forward. Momentum carries objects forward, which is 2nd grade science, but the way he artfully trapped momentum with a brute muscle just... doesn’t happen.
Jan 18, 2018 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
I want to tell you a story about the U15 BNT in 2013 and Hugo Perez and why everyone loved him so much and why his expulsion from US Soccer was such a shameful exercise in misplaced priorities. In December 2013 the U15 BNT, which Hugo coached at the time, guest played against three U16 teams in the DA Showcase. It was a telling exercise because the teams Hugo picked were always undersized anyway. Against guys 1/2 years up? Mismatch city.