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Text Box: Please contact Coach Ramos to see the manual in its entirety, including technical, tactical, physiological, and goal-setting exercises. Text Box:  Introduction This Manual is an attempt to elevate the Lehigh Valley United player’s awareness that they determine their future, and are responsible for their successes and failures.  Parents, coaches, and teachers can only do so much.  What you make of yourself is up to you.   At the end of the day you need to ask yourself, “how bad do I want this and how hard am I willing to work for it?” The Lehigh Valley United road is not easy.  It is far too difficult for most.  Many of your peers can not comprehend what it takes to become such an elite athlete.  Nor would they be willing.   Lehigh Valley United players are special and unique. The constant training, traveling, competition, and hard work is not for most people. It should be acknowledged that very rarely do you find young people so determined, dedicated, hard working, passionate, and talented.   LVU players are taught to be intelligent and strong enough not to succumb to the social pressures of the “negative life forces” around them.  They make the right choices in difficult situations, and are “positive life forces” themselves. Lehigh Valley United players are always confident and courageous.  They know they are talented.  Most importantly they are respectful and humble, aware of how lucky they are to live the lives they live.     Training Yourself   It is well known why certain countries consistently dominate international soccer.  Soccer is the most popular sport in these countries and their kids are playing, watching, and dreaming the game twenty four hours a day.  In their communities they can participate in and watch soccer in the streets, neighborhoods, parks, fields, stadiums and televisions.  In the United States soccer is far from the most popular sport.  Our children struggle to find the game outside of their own two practice a week club environment.  To compete with the big soccer nations our children need to experience the game in its many forms much more often.    This Manual was created to help LVU players in their quest to become the best they can be in the game.  It is intended to help you understand that your future does not lie solely in the hands of coaches.  You must take responsibility for your own development in the game.  You must hold yourself accountable for the progress you do or do not make.  With a soccer ball, the desire to improve, and your imagination you can create your own training session.   LVU players will be asked to set short and long term goals.  These goals will vary in many ways.  Most importantly you will be asked to write down the things you are going to do to achieve them.   I believe what is most important is the process in which a goal is achieved, that you learn you get out what you put into the game or life. Nothing of true value comes cheaply.  The goals for LVU set by the staff are not to win any particular game, tournament, or cup, but to experience the process involved in improving and developing.  We ask for consistent, determined, competitive and thoughtful performances from the players at training and at home. Our standards are never lowered, and only the greatest effort will satisfy.  Through the tremendous effort and dedication asked of the players you have and will continue to develop in all aspects of the game.   Therefore our goal is to always strive to give our all and to be our best at everything we do, even the smallest of details.  In doing so the results on the field will follow, and we can take with us the deepest satisfaction of knowing that all the hours of hard work we put in to get there paid off. Please see Please