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As Bob Dylan is often quoted," The Times they are a changing", is especially true in youth ice hockey across the world. 

In his monthly column on youth sports heroes, Doug Abrams highlights two high school baseball pitchers who refused to follow their coach's instructions to intentionally throw at the head of a batter.  

His article highlights one high school baseball coach but proves two larger points. 

Becoming a professional footballer is a very difficult goal, and young players ought to be realistic, while relentless, in their pursuit of this worthwhile dream.

It is a harsh reality that only a small percentage of aspiring players make it to the signing of a professional contract. Young players should understand this, and pursue a solid educational background in order to prepare for the likelihood of life outside of the beautiful game called football.

However, if you’re determined and willing, then you have a better chance of achieving your football dreams than most. In part two of this article series, we’ll cover three more tips for young aspiring players.

Becoming a professional footballer is a very difficult goal, and young players ought to be realistic, while relentless, in their pursuit of this worthwhile dream.

It is a harsh reality that only a small percentage of aspiring players make it to the signing of a professional contract. Young players should understand this, and pursue a solid educational background in order to prepare for the likelihood of life outside of the beautiful game called football.

However, if you're determined and willing, then you have a better chance of achieving your football dreams than most. In part two of this article series, we'll cover three more tips for young aspiring players.

I guess welcome and thank you.

I am honored to be involved with MomsTeam, in what ever role and/or fashion that Ms. de Lench has in mind.  As a blogger, we naturally thought this would be a good place to start.   

With concussions becoming a huge part of the sporting landscape recently there have been more and more opportunities for people and parents to learn about this injury.  I felt it was a good enough time to start a blog devoted to the gathering of concussion realted content.  That is why I started The Concussion Blog (www.theconcussionblog.com) in September of 2010.  It has since grown and "I" has turned into "we" as there were others out there wanting to voice/help in the this cause.