Meditation Flames Soccer – football team at UN 1976 Sep

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Sri Chinmoy, a soccer champion during his ashram days, gives pointers to members of UN Meditation-Flames. It is newly formed soccer team  of members of the Meditation Group at the UN and their friends who have joined the Soccer League at the UN..(photo by Ben Lieberman)    Notes from Anahata Nada –

Excerpts from Sri Chinmoy’s advice to the Meditation Flames Soccer Team 10 October 1976 

Note: In December of 1976 the soccer team won second place in UN Soccer League Tournament .

“If you want to be good players, real good players you have to develop both legs. Your right leg may not be as good as left. …

Good football players do not shout and scream….when you shout and scream your attention is going. Use your brain, use your eyes, but not your tongue. Your eyes and legs must go together

Goal keeper should develop the kick. to develop kick power. The back and the forward should develop long kick, short kick,• dribbling, everything, everything. The full back should develop 40—50 meter kick.

Use the eyes and legs together. Don’t think first, use eyes and then kick, both have to be together.

You have to develop all your capacities. There are many things you don’t do.

When I started to play I was hopeless. The coach came from Germany to teach us. Coach. he gave me a photograph and wrote: ‘ ‘To Sri Chinmoy who gave me much trouble and much love”. I could not change my style.

Right now you have taken up seriously. There are quite a few things you must learn. If you don’t have the willingness you can play the same way for many many years. But if you have the willingness you can go very, very fast.

You have to tactful and clever. Use your mental mathematics.

in my time and in my country we (were) a poor people but we worked very hard. We practiced five days a week. me sometimes twice a day or more. If you don’t practice you get rusty. If you don’t play regularly you are doing an injustice to those who play regularly. Please practice five days a week. The first 15 or 20 minutes only pay attention to difficulties you have, that way you can learn. When ever possible try to keep a good team, even if the opponents are weak.

There should be two goalies …. Kicking is necessary and never show goal, find somebody on the side. It is your duty you have to think of the goal keeper. Somebody is guarding, you people have to think of each other, how you can make it easy for the other. The person who is kicking should get the utmost support. The person who is going to receive is more responsible.

Practice, practice, practice. Your opponent is all the time thinking of you. Most of you can use both legs. If you don’t, you have to practice, when you go to the left goal you think of right leg. Otherwise football is not meant for you. Every Sunday and Saturday, twice and sometimes three times. Use mental mathematics use your vision and speed