Ian Rush?

As many of you may know Coach Bruce is a fan of the legendary soccer club: Liverpool FC who dominated English professional 'football' throughout much of the 70's and '80's in a way few other clubs have dominated their leagues. For many fans, Liverpool is considered to be the greatest English club side to have won the FA Cup.

During the last two weeks of u13G practices Coach Bruce has mentioned the name: Ian Rush... what's the significance of that player? Ian Rush [a Welshman born in 1961] was a dominant goal scorer for Liverpool before moving to play in Italy for Juve. His active playing days went on till the end of the 1990s. Recently he has made a number of educational videos and also this one.

(Photo above: Ian Rush shown on the left and a young Michael Owen in the middle)