01 5/29/03 1:28 PM Page i FAIR GAME A Complete Book of Soccer for Women LORRIE FAIR with Mark Gola Foreword by Anson Dorrance University of North Carolina women’s soccer head coach A Mountain Lion Book ebook_copyright 8.5 x 11.qxd 5/30/03 10:38 AM Page 1 Copyright © 2003 by Mountain Lion, Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-142689-2 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-139095-2 All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. 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Contents Foreword by Anson Dorrance . v Preface . vii Acknowledgments . ix 1 It Takes More Than Talent . 1 2 Rules and Equipment . 17 3 Dribbling. 31 4 Passing . 49 5 Receiving . 67 6 Shooting . 81 7 Goalkeeping. 95 8 Heading . 111 9 Strategy . 121 10 Restarts . 137 11 Conditioning. 149 12 The Life . 165 Index. 179 Copyright 2003 by Mountain Lion, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use. iii This page intentionally left blank. 01 5/29/03 1:28 PM Page v Foreword I can still remember the first time I saw Lorrie Lorrie’s mom, May, who since the death of Fair play. I was recruiting for the University Lorrie’s father years ago was raising her son and of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when I two daughters by herself—no easy feat with the watched Lorrie in an all-star/ODP (Olympic high energy of those three. Development Program) game between north- Many things have drawn me close to Lorrie ern California and southern California. Even over the years, but the first time she wowed me back then she had such a clean technique and was at the end of the recruiting process. Like she worked hard. She scored a beautiful goal, every other Division I program out there, UNC but the thing that sold me on her was not the has a roster that is larger than its scholarship goal but how tenaciously she tracked on allocation. And though we actively recruit very defense, even though she was playing as a few athletes, we had run out of scholarship striker the entire game. I knew from just that money by the time Lorrie had decided where one game that Lorrie was going to be a special she wanted to go to school. player. I just hoped there was a chance to have I thought our last conversation on the her become a special player for me at UNC. phone was on the day before she was to join Usually, a player grows on you during the Tony DiCicco in a training camp for the full recruiting process. There are so many extraordi- national team, an amazing honor for an ath- nary players out there, so it can take several lete still in high school. She decided she evaluations to place where she would fit in your wanted to “commit” before she left for camp. I recruiting class and where she would be wanted her to come to UNC in the worst way, recruited to fit on the field. The University only but I did not have a dime for her for her first permits me to recruit four out-of-state players a year. She had wonderful offers from many elite year, so when I recruit someone I can’t make a schools and programs, and, given that her mistake—she has to play. I knew instantly that mother would have to put her two other sib- Lorrie could play anywhere in the country and lings through school at the same time as Lorrie, anywhere on the field, but our team’s holes at we had a tearful phone call when she shared the time were in the back and in the midfield, she could not afford to come. I phoned Bill so it was a bit unnerving to share in my first Palladino, my long-time top assistant and recruiting call to Lorrie that, yes, UNC would friend, to tell him Lorrie was not coming and love to have her, but we were not going to look called it an evening. Because I make my recruit- at her to strike. Much to my relief Lorrie did not ing calls from my office I locked up and went cross us off her list when I told her we were home. This was a west-coast call and a three- looking to change her position. hour time difference for me, so it was pretty I learned many things about Lorrie during late when I got home. As I began to explain to recruitment. From our first conversation to our my wife, M’Liss, about how I had just lost an last, she was a pleasure to speak to on the amazing player and a wonderful human being, phone. Her talented twin sister, Ronnie, was the phone rang. also fun to catch up with, and even though we “I’m coming!” were not recruiting her she was someone I “What?” looked forward to talking to whenever I called. “I’m coming to UNC!” I developed a great affection early on for “You’re kidding me!” Copyright 2003 by Mountain Lion, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use. v 01 5/29/03 1:28 PM Page vi vi Foreword May Fair could see where her daughter’s Like for the U.S. national team in 1999, heart was, and she was going to sacrifice Lorrie Fair was all over the field in 2000. The everything to support her daughter in this first part of the season she was in the middle of decision. midfield; then when we struggled to score, we The rest, as they say, is history. Lorrie’s career threw her up top, and then when we knew we at UNC was everything we both had dreamed. needed her in the back to help bring the cham- She could play everywhere and she did. Every pionship back to Chapel Hill, she sacrificed her year she kept getting better, winning national love for playing in the midfield and played in championships and ascending to the most cele- the back for us. In one of the best-organized brated U.S. national team roster . the 1999 defenses in the history of our program, Lorrie team . world champions in front of 90,000 in sacrificed everything: the money and the posi- the Rose Bowl.