{"id":89436,"date":"2025-01-01T15:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T15:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=89436"},"modified":"2025-01-01T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T15:59:29","slug":"%f0%9f%9f%a6-the-blue-card-is-fantastic-but-why-do-we-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=89436","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udfe6 THE BLUE CARD IS FANTASTIC! But why do we use it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UtejyJNA4so?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\ud83d\udfe6 THE BLUE CARD IS FANTASTIC! But why do we use it?<\/p>\n<p>In football, players can get red and yellow cards for misconduct, but at the FFF, we give out a Blue Card for showing excellent human characteristics!<\/p>\n<p>We want to develop children as footballers and footballers, and a massive way to do this is to reward them for showing positive qualities, from being hardworking and staying motivated to caring for others and being helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Take a watch of this video of one of our Head Coaches giving a blue card to a superstar at one of our sessions for exactly this!<\/p>\n<p>So how couldn&#8217;t you love the blue card?<\/p>\n<p>#football #grassroots #kidsfootball #footballcoaching<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UtejyJNA4so\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udfe6 THE BLUE CARD IS FANTASTIC! But why do we use it? In football, players can get red and yellow cards for misconduct, but at the FFF, we give out&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5055,"featured_media":89437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}