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Welcome to the Mad Cows' blog!

The Mad Cows is the EUI's female five-a-side soccer team. We play just for fun and absolute beginners are warmly welcomed. Playing with the Mad Cows is a nice way to do some sports and meet new people to share some beers with. The members of the Mad Cows come from all environments and all nationalities: EUI researchers from all the departments, partners, members of the staff and people from outside the EUI world.
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04 December 2013

"Am I translucent myself?" (Ieva, 14:6)


The Word for Mad Cows vs. Libertas Bisenzio's match (again, from the ("selfish") defense perspective this time) you can find below.

Best ways how NOT to allow goals in our box:

1. Eliminate the danger BEFORE the shot is taken - mainly, with the right choice of your position. If position is not so good or you've been a bit too late to take it, then play with body = again, it is not always crucial to obtain the ball when in defense. Sometimes it is enough if you do not allow the opponent to obtain it = danger eliminated anyway and ball is safely recovered by other our player or by the goalie.

2. During the process of the shot being taken. Painful one, I know. Or, on the edge of foul, if you are pushing the opponent. But sometimes helps.
3. Save by the goalie. This is the least favorable option. And for that, as always - visibility, visibility, visibility! And particularly in tense angolo situation(s), ESPECIALLY if they are several in the row!!!
Remember that goalie has the best position around 1,5 m from the goal line. If closer, will react but that will be too late. Thus, if you all simultaneously come closer and closer to our box, I have to step back accordingly. If you push me too much back towards the goalie line, I'm quite useless there, if frankly, can as well just go and sit down in the corner of the box, drink some whiskey there and wait till you all finish the action = the team loses 1 player who is on the pitch theoretically but not with a practical use + you become goalies yourself.

In other words - be preventive, UNTIGHTEN THE IMAGINATIVE NET made around our box, go towards opponent players (within limits of common sense, of course – depending on the situation) and push them away / pressure them also in defense. Thus you’ll limit their possibilities to shoot + you’ll improve my chances to see the ball. Because if you step back together with them, remember – at the end of the day there are already 16 (!!!) legs, movements of which I have to try to follow (and yes, I’m referring here to those 6 min with 3 or 4 angolos in row in the last game’s 2nd half – I still see them in my nightmares).
Or simply ask yourself one more time – am I translucent myself? The correct answer should be – no, not yet.

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