1. What Are Three Reasons You Want to Play PFMS Soccer This Fall?

2016 PFMS Soccer Questionnaire

NAME: ______

GRADE: ______
DATE: ______

1. What are three reasons you want to play PFMS soccer this fall?

2. What are three other sports, activities, or hobbies that you enjoy?

3. What are 2 soccer positions that you feel confident playing? Examples: center forward, wings or outside forward, high target striker, outside midfielder, attacking midfielder, defending midfielder, center midfielder, center defender, outside or wing defender, goalkeeper.

4. Technical skills. Examples: Ball control under pressure, using all parts of your foot to play the ball, first touch, dribbling with speed, passing accuracy, shielding the ball, 1 v 1 defending skill, 1 v 1 attacking skill, driving the ball with your laces, chipping the ball into the air, heading to finish.

4a) What is one of your technical strengths?

4b) What is a technical skill that you want to improve?

5. Tactical skills: Examples: Making creative attacking runs, moving into passing lanes, opening space on the attack, creating 2 v 1 attacking situations, recognizing when to attack and when to possess with patience, switching the point of attack, transitioning between attacking and defending, anticipating play of teammates and opponents, defending with pressure, moving into cover defending space, collapsing space when defending, shifting and moving as a defensive unit, pushing up the field to support the attack, recognizing gaps in the defense to attack with dribble or passing, positioning and reading the game to finish and score.

5a)What is one of your tactical strengths?

5b) What is a tactical skill that you want to improve?

6. Physical ability. Examples: Endurance to play/run/compete for extended periods of time, speed over distance, explosive quickness in tight spaces, strength and balance, aggressiveness, lateral movement and quick cutting.

6a)What is one of your physical ability strengths?

6b) What is a physical attribute that you want to improve?

7. Mental ability. Examples: Playing with confidence, taking risks in order to learn, learning from mistakes, mental toughness to compete and persevere, positive attitude about your development and opportunities, willingness to work hard and grit through challenges, passion to be a leader.

7a)What is one of your mental ability strengths?

7b) What is a mental ability that you want to improve?

8. What is one of your favorite or best subjects at school?

9. What are three of your favorite healthy foods?

10. What is one of your favorite desserts?

11. What is one book you read or are currently reading this summer? Must be since school ended in June. Include the author name.

12. What makes someone a great teammate? Please list three characteristics that you would want in a teammate.