Shin pads are the only mandatory piece of protective equipment required to play soccer, but they only protect the front of your legs. While it's important to keep shins protected, your ankles, outside ...

Soccer players have long prided themselves on their sport’s minimalist equipment. If many players had their druthers, an entire kit would consist of their jersey, shorts, socks and cleats. Before shin ...

I’m old enough to remember playing goalkeeper when there weren’t gloves. My friends in the local park would smash a ball at me as hard as they could, and I often performed a diving mid-air save to ...