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ADVANCED SOCCER DRILLS: 69 DRILLS FOR TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS by: COLIN SCHMIDT
This collection of challenging drills is a great resource for teaching advanced skills and for developing smart team players. You`ll find 69 drills to help players: • develop the ability and confidence to handle the ball under pressure, • improve the way they see the field and make decisions, • master advanced skills that they can use in specific game situations, and • apply their skills successfully within a team framework. The drills are organized according to specific objectives, with a drill finder to help you select the drills that work on the areas you want to improve. Each drill is presented in a two-page format that includes instructions about the drill`s organization and procedure, key points for learning it, a large, clear diagram, and suggested variations for adjusting the difficulty level of the drill. Coaches will especially appreciate the chapter on using drills to construct practice sessions, as well as the 1-vs.-1 player-evaluation model, which you can use as a tool for selecting team members or as a practice exercise. The drills in this book are more challenging and more fun than the basics and are particularly valuable for select youth league, high school, and college-level players. Players under the age of 12 who have a solid grasp of the fundamentals will also benefit from some of these drills. Better practice means better performance. Advanced Soccer Drills is the perfect tool for developing complete players with high-level skills and soccer savvy.
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ATTACKING SOCCER by: JOSEPH LUXBACHER
Put your opponents on their heels and the ball in goal! Use the strategies, plays, skills, and drills of Attacking Soccer to develop a high-powered offensive team that will take your club, high school, or college league by storm. The expert contributing coaches cover the following: • Playing out of the thirds • Possession soccer • Changing points of attack • Quick counterattacks and transitions • Flank attacks • Offensive patterns of play • Restart plays • Individual skill development Editor Joe Luxbacher, head coach at the University of Pittsburgh, has assembled many of the game`s top offensive-minded coaches including Dave Sarachan of D.C. United, Jay Hoffman of the U.S. Women`s National Team, former Tampa Bay Mutiny coach John Kowalski, and college coaches Dean Foti of Syracuse, Sam Koch of Massachusetts, and Dave Masur of St. John`s. Each coach explains and illustrates a specific aspect of developing an attacking offense, helping you develop and implement the tactics, skills, and drills that are needed to maximize scoring opportunities.
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COACHING SOCCER SUCCESSFULLY - 2ND EDITION by: REES, VAN DER MEER
In the first edition of Coaching Soccer Successfully, Roy Rees and Cor van der Meer combined nearly 90 years of international experience for the ultimate coaching guide. Now they’re back with a brand-new edition offering even more insight on the tactical side of the game. A former professional player in the English Football League, Roy Rees has more than 40 years of coaching at the youth, college, professional, and World Cup level. Cor van der Meer got his start in the Netherlands on the Dutch National Youth team, and now his career spans a half-century as a coach, player, and administrator. Together, these two veterans of the sport cover every aspect of the game, from tactical instruction to the planning, preparation, and performance evaluations essential for building a stronger team. Coaching Soccer Successfully is loaded with photographs, diagrams, and tactical options designed to give you the game-winning edge in actual match situations. From offense to defense, Coaching Soccer Successfully offers effective methods for teaching individuals, small groups, and whole squads with drills that make practice fun, interactive, and gamelike. In addition to diagrams and photographs that highlight successful game play, Coaching Soccer Successfully gives you the tools you need to build a better program, determine your coaching philosophy, and communicate effectively with players and parents. From preparing young players to planning for matches, this book takes you into the trenches for the inside edge. Whether you teach girls’ or boys’ soccer at the junior high level or beyond, you’ll love the direct, nuts-and-bolts approach to soccer instruction provided in this book. In Coaching Soccer Successfully, Rees and van der Meer share a wealth of knowledge and experience on effective leadership, organization, and evaluation advice. This is an excellent guide to getting the job done, on and off the field.
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COACHING YOUTH SOCCER - 4TH EDITION by: ASEP
As participation in youth soccer continues to grow, so does the need for youth soccer coaches. Whether you’re a parent new to coaching or an experienced youth soccer coach, Coaching Youth Soccer is your handbook for a successful season. Through the expertise of coach Sam Snow and US Youth Soccer, you’ll gain field-tested tips on how to run your team, communicate with players, provide basic first aid, plan and conduct practices, and keep it all fun. Now in its fourth edition, Coaching Youth Soccer uses gamelike activities to teach offensive and defensive skills, which sets it apart from other soccer coaching books. Ideal for coaches of players ages 14 and under, this book contains 13 new activities and more than 30 age-specific coaching tips that are sure to jump-start your practices. Coaching Youth Soccer is a valuable component of any coaching education program. With this book, you will create an environment that promotes learning, enjoyment, and motivation for players to come out for the team year after year. American Sport Education Program (ASEP) is the leading provider of youth, high school, and elite-level sport education programs in the United States. Through its high-quality and easy-to-use programs, ASEP has educated more than one million coaches, officials, sport administrators, parents, and athletes. For more than 25 years, local, state, and national sport organizations have partnered with ASEP to lead the way in making sport a safe, successful, and enjoyable experience for all involved.
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COMPLETE CONDITIONING FOR SOCCER by: SIGI SCHMID
Grueling. That`s one way anyone who has ever played soccer describes the sport. Soccer requires spurts of speed and game-long endurance, so even the most skilled halfbacks, fullbacks, and forwards know they can`t survive on talent alone. It also takes unbelievable conditioning—the kind of conditioning that guarantees the stamina to run the field and still have the explosiveness to plow through defenders, battle for position, and drill the ball into the goal. That`s where Complete Conditioning for Soccer can help. Written by Los Angeles Galaxy head coach Sigi Schmid and Robert Alejo, a veteran conditioning coach who has worked with the UCLA Bruins and World Cup soccer teams, this book features numerous exercises designed to enhance performance. Modeled after the same conditioning programs as those used by the Galaxy and Bruin powerhouses, Complete Conditioning for Soccer shows players how to get in the best possible shape with expert information on • flexibility and warm-up techniques, • strength training, • power development, • aerobic training, • speed and agility exercises, and • individual and team conditioning with the ball. Unlike other books on the market, Complete Conditioning for Soccer is easy to follow—and use! That`s because the authors have combined step-by-step instructions with more than 125 photographs and illustrations to ensure that players use the proper form and technique. Use these expert coaches’ conditioning programs to outperform and outwork your opponents, game after game!
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DEFENSIVE SOCCER TACTICS by: BANGSBO AND PEITERSEN
Prepare your defense for the most challenging offensive attacks! Defensive Soccer Tactics provides complete coverage of individual and team defensive systems, strategies, and tactics, with more than 100 diagrams that illustrate proper defensive positioning. No other book offers the depth of information in Defensive Soccer Tactics. Learn to assess the defensive system and strategies that best suit your players, and gain insight to help you adjust your defense during a match. You’ll find coaching points that make it easy to grasp the concepts presented and exercises designed to help your players master your chosen defense and shut down their opponents. The book follows a building-block approach, progressing from individual skills to team defense skills, systems, and strategies. Defensive Soccer Tactics includes chapters on • covering and marking, • support and recovery, • forcing the opponent’s direction, • man-to-man coverage, • zone coverage, • combination defense, • team defensive depth, • coordination among teammates, • goalkeeper responsibilities, • high-pressure attack, • offside trap, and • door-bolt defense (catenaccio). Defensive Soccer Tactics gives you everything you need to prepare your defense for the challenges from the opposition. Soon your team will contain even the most explosive offenses—and completely shut down everyone else!
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DEVELOPING YOUTH SOCCER PLAYERS by: HORST WEIN
Developing Youth Soccer Players is a superbly written, full-color resource that presents you with the most thorough and useful guidance on age-appropriate soccer coaching. Addressing the mental and physical levels of players age 7 through 14, author Horst Wein provides you with tailor-made programs for each age group. These programs include simplified games and corrective teaching methods that are based on his internationally renowned Soccer Development Model. This model matches players’ formative levels with the coaching style and playing challenges to produce both optimal improvement and enjoyment. Using more than 200 full-color illustrations and charts in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructional format, Wein shows you how to distinguish the abilities of players at the various age levels. He then offers drills and activities that begin with simple fundamentals for the youngest players and evolve into more complex techniques that prepare older athletes for adult competition. Coaches of young players will benefit from the basic games and exercises that teach players the fundamental elements of soccer, such as • juggling, • balancing, • dribbling, • passing, • receiving, • shooting, and • tackling. The next level of the Soccer Development Model includes simplified game situations and information on learning the complexities of the sport. At the highest levels, Wein offers more complex games and scenarios. A program for goalkeepers is also included. In the past decade, the natural approach to teaching young players—a centerpiece of Wein’s Soccer Development Model—has unleashed the innate potential of young players in 13 countries. Now this successful program is available to you in Developing Youth Soccer Players.
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FOCUSED FOR SOCCER by: BILL BESWICK
Successful soccer players understand the game, have the skills to execute the techniques and tactics, and are conditioned to meet the physical demands of the sport. A fourth and equally important factor in soccer success is mental toughness. Being a champion requires concentration, discipline, motivation, and a positive attitude. Now players can learn to meet and overcome the mental challenges of intense competition with Focused for Soccer. This book alone delivers such in-depth, easy-to-follow guidelines for maximizing individual performance on the soccer field. Focused for Soccer will help you sharpen mental skills and unleash your full potential. Better than general sport psychology text, Focused for Soccer is filled with practical tips and step-by-step techniques that transfer directly to the game. Part of Human Kinetics' popular Focused for Sports series, this book makes the case that physical skills and conditioning must be combined with psychological skills to be a champion. European coach and sport psychologist Bill Beswick is the world’s leading authority on the mental aspects of soccer performance. Beswick’s insights and anecdotes enrich the expert instruction throughout the book. He explains how he has applied the training techniques successfully in his many years as a coach and consultant. Beswick begins by helping you create an honest player assessment and a plan of action. He then guides you through every key factor of the mental game that will improve performance, including positive outlook, intensity of actions, imagination, winning attitudes, healthy competitiveness, and true teamwork. In many sections, the author shows techniques used by professional athletes and sport psychologists to boost performance to a higher level. Encouraging athletes to play "first with the head, then with the heart," Focused for Soccer is a players’ and coaches’ guide to all of the psychological tools necessary to become a soccer champion. It is an invaluable tool for improving the foundation of your game and an outstanding guidebook for any physical athletic training program.
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MORE THAN GOALS:FROM BACKYARD GAMES TO WORLD CUP COMPETITION by: REYNA, WOITALLA
Experience the sport of soccer like never before! More Than Goals will take you inside each level of competition and development of the most successful U.S. men’s soccer player ever. Coaches, teammates, and opponents recognize that Reyna’s value on the field and to a squad extends far beyond the goal-scoring situations he creates. More Than Goals captures the consummate leader and captain’s passion and knowledge for the game. You’ll gain both an appreciation of what it takes to excel in the sport and insights on how to play it. Author Claudio Reyna has been a champion performer from youth club through professional levels. The following are among his accomplishments: - Two-time state champion and two-time Parade magazine High School Player of the Year at St. Benedict’s Prep (New Jersey)
- Three-time national champion and All-American, two-time Player of the Year, and College Player of the Century at the University of Virginia
- Three-time World Cup competitor and World Cup all-star team selection in 2002
- Captain of teams in top professional leagues in Germany, Scotland, and England
Reyna is currently with Manchester City of the English Premier League and is also the U.S. national team captain.
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OFFENSIVE SOCCER TACTICS by: BANGSBO, PEITERSEN
The challenge you face in devising an effective offensive attack just became easier with Offensive Soccer Tactics. Learn the details of the offensive strategies employed by some of the most successful soccer teams in the world. This book, designed for coaches at the high school level and up, is the collective offensive genius of world-renowned coaches Jens Bangsbo and Birger Peitersen, longtime instructors with the Danish Football Federation as well as other Danish national teams and Italian clubs. By learning the strategies, systems, and tactics that have been successfully implemented by Denmark`s elite clubs and other international powerhouses, you will develop players and teams with more potent offensive skills. The authors begin by covering the basics of possession play, then they take you through effective practice strategies, drills, and game plans. Other key topics include -creating space, -moving without the ball, -advanced-level passing, -challenging the defender, and -penetrating and finishing scoring runs. Offensive Soccer Tactics brings these principles together to demonstrate how to finish plays from all over the field, including outside and inside the penalty area. You`ll gain a strategic understanding of the sport so that you can make effective decisions relative to your personnel, your offensive proficiencies and opponent. Your offense will thrive from instruction on incorporating high-percentage offensive tactics into both practices and games. Thoroughly illustrated with detailed diagrams, Offensive Soccer Tactics is the perfect tool to use to keep the ball away from your opponent and score more goals.
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SKILLS AND STRATEGIES FOR COACHING SOCCER by: ALAN HARGREAVES
The key to successful coaching is getting your players to make successful decisions on the field. Skills and Strategies for Coaching Soccer gives you the tools to do just that. You`ll have access to 120 drills for teaching skills and techniques; more importantly, you`ll know how to develop these skills in realistic game situations with beginning, intermediate, and advanced players. Essential skills are presented, including collecting and controlling, passing, dribbling, kicking, heading, goalkeeping, and the throw in. But the unique feature of this book is for each skill presented, you`ll find drills for players at different levels of development. And no one knows the importance of skill development better than Alan Hargreaves--one of England`s top soccer coaches. He has coached 5-year-olds to pros, using the same skills and techniques presented in this book. With Skills and Strategies for Coaching Soccer, you`ll learn the what, how, and why of soccer through: • offensive moves and countering defensive moves, • 120 drills for beginning, intermediate, and advanced players, • coaching points for each drill, • a fitness program for soccer, • sample game situations and how to coach in those situations, • 246 high-quality illustrations of field diagrams and skill execution, and • methods of coaching that are appropriate for individuals or groups. You`ll also find information on how the modern systems of soccer play have evolved since 1870 as well as how to be effective with your pre-game, half-time, and post-game talks. Skills and Strategies for Coaching Soccer is essential for: • Beginning coaches - will receive a comprehensive introduction to soccer and soccer coaching. • Team coaches - will have immediate access to new drills, new tactics, and fitness tests used with Olympic players, as well as advice on team management and systems of play. This hands-on guide will also prove useful for: • College and university students - will learn all the essentials of coaching soccer effectively. • Teachers and lecturers - will gain a detailed reference source for new skills and drills to use when preparing their lessons. Skills and Strategies for Coaching Soccer presents all of this information in a style that combines the concern for the dignity of the individual with a love for the manner in which the game is played. Alan Hargreaves believes in this coaching philosophy--a philosophy that through experience has proven to be effective in producing winning teams. It`s all part of the time-tested formula that makes Skills and Strategies for Coaching Soccer an indispensable guide for soccer coaches in any setting.
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SOCCER COACHING BIBLE, THE by: NTL SOCCER COACH ASSOC AM
With The Soccer Coaching Bible, you can draw from the expertise and experience of 30 of the game’s most successful coaches, learning new and better ways to coach the game and develop your players. The National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) assembled an all-star lineup of 30 coaches to tackle every important aspect to coaching the sport. On- and off-field duties are covered in detail, and the material in each chapter is rich with the voice of experience. From Anson Dorrance’s chapter on organizing and orchestrating a winning program to Lauren Gregg’s chapter on creating the ideal training environment, this book provides the answers you’ve been looking for. Steve Sampson explains the technical and tactical nuances of controlling the ball, and Tony DiCicco encourages and informs mentoring developing players and coaches. The vast coaching expertise is divided into six sections, making it easy to choose what to implement into your program: - Priorities and Principles by Cliff McCrath, Joe Bean, Layton Shoemaker, and George Perry
- Program Development and Management by Anson Dorrance, Charlie Slagle, John Rennie, Mike Jacobs, and Joe Morrone
- Optimal Training for Learning and Performance by Lauren Gregg, Jeff Tipping, Barry Gorman, and Ron McEachen
- Technical and Tactical Insights for Competitive Success by Steve Sampson, Jim Lennox, Peter Mellor, Tony Waiters, Jay Hoffman, and Schellas Hyndman
- Player and Team Development and Motivation by Al Miller, Tracey Leone, Jay Martin, Miller Bugliari, Tim Schum, Chris Petrucelli, and Colleen Hacker
- Growth Opportunities in the Coaching Role by Jeff Vennell, Peter Gooding, Tony DiCicco, and Glenn Myernick
Each time you open this book you’ll learn something new and useful for your next practice, game, or season. Whether you coach at the club, high school, or college level, The Soccer Coaching Bible is an essential addition to your coaching library.
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