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by
Ray Power (Author)
Making the Ball Roll is the ultimate, complete guide to coaching youth soccer.
This focused and easy-to-understand book details training practices and tactics, and goes on to show you how to help young players achieve peak performance through tactical preparation, communication, psychology, and age-specific considerations.
Each chapter covers, in detail, a separate aspect of coaching to give you, the football coach, a broad understanding of youth soccer development.
Each topic is brought to life by the stories of real coaches working with real players.
Never before has such a comprehensive guide to coaching soccer been found in the one place. If you are a new coach, or just trying to improve your work with players – and looking to invest in your future – this is a must-read book!
– Analyse how football coaching has dramatically grown and changed over the last decade, and help prepare your players for the modern game
– Understand the age-related development of players: technically, tactically and physically
– Gain an insight into new research around psychology in soccer and the growing effects of social considerations like communication, teamwork, leadership, and rapport
– Consider age-appropriate methods, sessions, and curriculum planning, used by top coaching programmes
– Learn the methods of top coaches like Mourinho, Guardiola, Sir Alex Ferguson and Wenger and apply them to your work with youth players
– Study the methods of top development academies like Barcelona, Liverpool and Atlético Mineiro; and national associations like Germany’s DFB, Holland’s KNVB, the English FA, and US Soccer
Number of Pages: 270Dimensions: 0.57 x 11.69 x 8.27 INIllustrated: YesPublication Date: May 01, 2014
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