Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Soccer (Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Sports Series) |  | Authors: Lindsey Blom, Tim Blom
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 277321
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0736077324
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.334077
EAN: 9780736077323
ASIN: 0736077324
Publication Date: May 13, 2009
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Product Description
You volunteered to coach the soccer team, but are you really ready? How will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and harness the energy of your young team? Fear not: Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Soccer has the answers. In Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Soccer, longtime coaches Lindsey and Tim Blom share their experience and provide advice you can rely on from first practice to final game. Develop your players' dribbling, passing, shooting, and goalkeeping skills with the Survival Guide's collection of the game's best youth drills. From basic plays to game-day coaching tips, it's all here--the drills, the plays, the fun. Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Soccer has everything you need for a rewarding and productive season. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the experience. It will be one that you won't forget.
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 Coming from a Baseball Guy August 25, 2009
KingTut
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Not being a soccer guy, I was encouraged to check out this book. It does a great job of showing a new soccer coach the ropes by providing relevant drills for all positions, breaking down footwork so that one can better explain it to young learners, and providing organization for practice and game play. I would highly recommend this to any parent or new coach to the game.
Exactly what every new coach needs!!! July 27, 2009
Eagle GK (DAcula Ga United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Soccer is an excellent book for any new coach at all levels of play. This book takes you step by step through the essential technical concepts associated with the basic youth players as well as tactical components of some higher levels of play. Every new coach will benefit from this book. Go Eagles!!!
OUtstanding Book and an easy read April 19, 2010
Michele Kfouri (Boston, MA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was a really good book. Well written and full or good practical detail. I have coached soccer for about 5 years and the book highlighted all the important things that I have been told to do as a coach. It also gave me some really good tips on how to keep the kids engaged and excited about practice and the game.
The only thing that may be missing is some more info on game strategy. Not a big deal because at the level of 5 to 10 year olds strategy is basic and building individual skills is much more critical.
Get this book - if you are a beginner to intermediate coach. If you are just looking for drills there are other books that are a bit better. For drills I got "Great Soccer Drills : The Baffled Parent's Guide (Paperback)" which I like quite a bit too because it is well organized.
 Good but Basic Information February 5, 2010
J. Coberly (CA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The truth is, I returned this book after I bought it. So why do I still give it 3 stars???
As you can see from my other reviews, I spend a good deal of money on soccer coaching books. Perhaps as a result, I was already familiar with pretty much all the information contained in the book. This is not to say that the books is bad. The information contained in the book is actually very good. It's just that I am personally at a more advanced level.
I highly recommend this book to new coaches and coaches of teams U10 or lower (or perhaps even recreational U12 teams). It does a great job of compiling loads of useful information on many topics and a handful of good practice games in one place. Big print and simple graphics make it easily readable. However, if you already have a coaching foundation and are looking for "new" information, this is probably not the book for you.
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