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The British Columbia Soccer has teamed up with Soccer Science International to ensure the good health of players and maximize their fitness. Soccer Science International provides soccer specific education, instruction, and training that promotes injury prevention and maximizes players’ physical potential in the sport of soccer.

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Rick Celebrini is a former Vancouver 86er captain, one of the founding physiotherapists of Soccer Science International, and is the sport science consultant of the British Columbia Soccer Association's technical committee.

The focus of Soccer Science is in the formation of a training program that addresses the prevention of soccer related injuries while enhancing player performance. BC Soccer's Soccer Science program is based on an extensive literature review on the incidences, mechanisms, contributing factors, and present/previous prevention strategies of soccer related injuries, augmented with its own research and its members' clinical and playing experience. This exercise program will be implemented across a broad demographic including players of different ages, sexes and skill levels to determine long-term outcomes and the effectiveness of the program in both the prevention of injuries and the enhancement of performance.
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Dissociation
Dissociation is a concept that our group has incorporated into the training and rehab of all of our soccer players. The definition of dissociation is to “disconnect” or “disunite”. However, it could also be thought of as coordination or agility. It is essentially another role or skill of the core unit.
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Dissociation is the ability for the player to deal with and integrate simultaneously occurring, contrasting forces on different parts of the body. For example, a player sprinting at full speed down the wing is in a state of maximal mobility or relaxation. If an opponent then suddenly grabs him on the arm or jersey he will require maximal stability to resist this. The core or midsection of the body must be a transitional area in integrating and coordinating the contrasting forces between the stability required of the upper body and the simultaneous mobility of the lower body. If this is done effectively the result will be improved performance and a decreased chance of injury.  

Here are a couple of basic drills to illustrate and improve this skill:

1) Stand with legs relaxed and feet shoulder width apart. Move your feet as quickly as possible in different stride patterns. Now try these same patterns while maximally squeezing a ball with both hands in front of your chest. Notice the drop off in foot speed?

2) Have a partner toss a ball for you to volley back with both feet. The key is to maintain constant pressure with one or both arms into another partner behind you i.e. as in “ holding off” an opponent. This requires stability and tension in the upper body and stance leg but a relaxed kicking leg to maintain the “feel” or “touch” on the ball.

There are a few athletes that will naturally possess and utilize the skill of dissociation to their advantage. For the rest of us, however, it is a skill that must be trained and refined.  



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