Primo Blog

June 14th, 2010

Over 50 soccer goal keepers ranging in age from 8 to 18 attended the 8^th annual Lightning Soccer Spring GK Clinic held at Tufts University this past weekend.  Lightning Soccer Camp GK director Bernie Watt ran the session and was assisted by a star studded GK staff including current NE Revolution keeper Matt Reis, former Revolution keeper Jeff Causey and former US National and Olympic Team keeper Jeff Duback.  During the three hour training session the keepers were schooled on ball handling,

May 27th, 2010

May 24th, 2010

As usual – Nike has appealed to the core of soccer/footballers everywhere with its World Cup advert.  They strive to define the pulse of soccer in America and capture the essence of the game worldwide.  They help elevate the sport in America to the standard of baseball/football/basketball wit

May 20th, 2010

No doubt that this year’s World Cup Match ball will carry its fair share of criticism from the players – as it does every World Cup.  Forwards who miss the goal will complain the ball moves too much – forwards who strike the keeper in the chest from 12 meters will complain the ball doesn’t move enough and keepers who botch the easy save will complain that the ball is too fast, or moves too much, or didn’t move at all – in the end, the Cup will be handed out, the average goals per match will be the

November 9th, 2009

I just wrapped up a very successful week of “preaching” the Primo story – covering 5 states in 6 days.  I knew it was going to be a great week when I had all 80 coaches at the “coach the coach” clinic at USTC the first evening of the trip nodding in agreement about one thing – a simple idea with powerful implications.  It was then that I realized – air retention in soccer balls is a BIG story.  Before then, after struggling to get product in the warehouse and retailers to stock balls in their stores for months, I was starting to wonder i

November 9th, 2009

June 10th, 2009

We've been asked many times now, "How does it feel to start a new company during this economy?"  Our answer is always something like "it's great but very challenging".  That answer isn't intended to be as boring as it sounds but we can't fake it.  Sure, we could have picked a better time to start but the time picked us--we didn't pick it.  As the creators of the NeverFlat™ technology used in the best-selling basketball in the US, it would have been perfectly reasonable to sit back and take it easy.

April 3rd, 2009

Our own Dr. Don Sandusky is now on YouTube. Check it out

April 3rd, 2009

Ronnie Pascale, the ace goal keeper of the Richmond Kickers, is the latest athlete to sign on to the Primo Sport bandwagon. He joins Jon Busch, among others, in enjoying the competitve edge that our technology provides.