hange field goal attempts or someone’s average speed – the study recommends that coaches lower injury risk by decreasing the number of minutes played instead of resting players for entire games late in the season. And I think, ultimately, we just all tried to do our part in letting him know we were thinking about. It was a completely holistic overview of a player’s needs. o on Sunday, on 16 April 1967, professional soccer took its first bold steps in the US as the National Professional Soccer League made its debut.