Design/Development of a Stable U-10 Soccer Goal

Abstract

All across the United States, all year round, children play with soccer goals. The average age of children who interact with goals ranges from 5 to 18 years of age; although many adults utilize soccer goals as well. In most instances the goal is located at a public park or school. This requires the goals to be moveable. The portability of the goal is to allow for storage, grounds keeping and game placement — to name a few. This requirement dictates that the goal be light weight enough to be moved by the people using it, or the entity which controls it. Therefore, an unrestrained, light-weight goal can easily become unstable and tip over. Many of these goals are unsafe because they are improperly designed, manufactured or installed (unstable and are either unanchored or not properly anchored or counter balanced). A U-10 soccer goal has been designed and built which is light weight, portable and is stable with or without anchors. This design is passive in nature. That is to say it is always working and does not rely on stakes or sandbags; however, stakes are part of this design.