NOGA Homework - Learn the Ronaldinho Move L'Elastica. . .
Ronaldinho's classic L'Elastica move takes a little time and practice to perfect - and some very, very quick feet.
1. Push the ball sideways away from your body with the outside of your laces. Lean into the ball.
2. Quickly bring the same fot around to the front of the ball and pull the ball back in the opposite direction.
3. Say "See Ya" to the stranded defender and take the ball way away with the other foot.
Show your new move to your NOGA coach on Tuesday morning. They will be looking to find who can do the best Ronaldinho in your NOGA team?
The real key here is how quickly you are able to move your foot from pushing the ball away to pulling it back it the opposite direction. Ronaldinho is a master of this lightning quick foot movement.
Watch Ronaldinho In Action . . .
Want to see the master in action? Here is a video clip of some of Ronaldinho's phenominal dribbling moves. Pay close attention to the first 30 seconds when you will see your homework move L'Elstica.
Stick Football (Soccer)
NOGA staff are a competitive bunch. It must come from those hours out on the field. But, whether it is who supports the best team or, who can do the most juggles or, even eat the most cookies in a minute there is always a competition of some sort going on in the NOGA offices.
Right now it is who is the NOGA champion at the Stick Football World Cup Although, we have to admit that we cannot even get England to win at this one. But it's certainly an entertaining game. So, when your homework is done, have a go.
Brilliant Dribbling Goal . . .
The silky skills of Swedish player Zlatan Ibrahimovic when he was playing for Ajax. Watch how his head remains up and steady throughout the moves. This allows Ibrahimovic to always "see" the next defender and the goal. This is the basis for his perfect balance.
20. If you placed all of the tee shirts that NOGA has given out end-to-end they would stretch from New York to Baltimore.
19. NOGA was originally called Long Island Soccer Camps.
18. The highest ever recorded number of juggles at a NOGA camp is 37 minutes by Andrew Tibbenham in 2002. Then we had to tell him to stop and come for dinner.
17. NOGA purchased the first model of the revolutionary new portable Kwik Goals.
16. The farthest that anyone has ever traveled to attend a NOGA camp is from Jakarta, Indonesia a distance of 10,053 miles from the camp.
15. NOGA has given out over 100,000 soccer balls
14. Four different NOGA Coaches have won college NCAA National Championships - one at Division One, two at Division Two and one at Division Three.
13. NOGA began as a one week only boys soccer camp based at Adelphi University in New York.
12. David Beckham, Michael Owen, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba to name but a few, have all appeared at NOGA soccer camps.
11. NOGA provided soccer advice and continuity for the final scene of the movie "One Fine Day" starring George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer. This included pink soccer goals in Central Park - the favorite color of Ms. Pfeiffer.
10. At a one week NOGA residential camp a player touches the soccer ball an average of 30,000 times
9. NOGA director Tim Bradbury came up with the NOGA name completely by mistake.
8. NOGA's original owner Dr. Mel Less was an award winning sports columnist and coach of Adelphi University.
7. NOGA invented the adventure soccer approach to coaching soccer players of four to eight years of age that is now used throughout the world.
6. NOGA is the only company in the USA to be selected by Liverpool, Celtic, Chelsea, AC Milan and England to direct their soccer camps in the USA.
5. When NOGA announced their intention to have professional coaches work with youth soccer teams everyone laughed and said that the idea would never ever work. Today that move has changed American soccer forever.
4. NOGA director Gary Book is statistically the most successful assistant coach in Division One college soccer.
3. NOGA was the first soccer company in the USA to hold programs for girls.
2. NOGA has helped raise over one million dollars for Breast Cancer research.
1. NOGA coach Ian Sawyers settled in California where he married USA women's national team star Julie Foudy.
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