The Complete Book of Coaching Youth Soccer |  | Author: Simon Whitehead
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 486086
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0809240726
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.334077
EAN: 9780809240722
ASIN: 0809240726
Publication Date: April 1, 1991
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Product Description
This is the definitive manual for coaching America's fastest-growing sport for kids aged 8-19. Written for both beginning and seasoned coaches, The Complete Book of Coaching Youth Soccer shows you--in concise, easy-to-understand terms--how to organize, motivate, and lead your youth soccer team to success on the field. Included are: - Step-by-step teaching points
- Rules and strategies of the game
- More than 100 illustrative diagrams
- More than 75 practice and competitive drills
- Complete 10-week season plans for each of three separate age groups
Designed for easy, on-the-field reference, author Simon Whitehead's proven practice drills are designed progressively to develop maximum skills for both individual and team play. Simon Whitehead lives in Minneapolis and has coached high school and college soccer in England and in the United States for more than ten years. Using proven European teaching methods, he shows the soccer coach how to maximize each young player's enthusiasm, involvement, and personal success in soccer.
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 Great beginner youth coaches book August 9, 2005
R. Ciranna
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I purchased about 5 books on coaching soccer, particularly youth soccer (13 and under). This was by far the best of the lot, most covered only rules and strategy and not teaching basic skills. This is the first coaches book I found that actually explained how to kick a ball! It does a great job in explaining how to teach the basic skills, which is what most of the young players need. The drills were helpful and made a definite improvement in the play of the team.
A decent book for beginners and intermediates May 4, 1997
122 out of 123 found this review helpful
This is an okay book for beginner and intermediate level youth soccer coaching. There are two
main problems with this book. One is that the illustrations are extremely crude, often reduced to
literally stick figures. The other problem is that, having collected several other youth soccer
coaching books and videos, I'm not sure that I actually learned anything new from this book, and
so in retrospect, I don't think I would have gotten this book. For beginner coaches learning how
to coach very young kids (i.e., ages 4-8), Karl Dewazien's "FUNdamental Soccer" is a better
book in terms of the illustrations, and in its emphasis on how to handle these very young
children. For a more detailed explanation of tactics and intermediate to advanced skills for older
children (ages 8+), Alan Hargreaves' book "Skills and Strategies for Coaching Soccer" treats
essentially the same topics in a much more thorough fashion. For teaching soccer dribbling
"moves", Wiel Coerver's "SCORE!" is the ultimate book (although, as I noted in my review of
that book, the companion videos, viewed in slow motion, are more useful). However, if you
haven't gotten any soccer coaching books yet, and are looking for your first ever youth soccer
coaching book for slightly older kids (ages 8+), this book might be useful. It does have a
cookbook set of week-by-week soccer drills that will get you through your first soccer season, if
you don't want to have to think too hard about what it is that you're going to have to do.
Pretty good, if you have the time February 13, 2009
Cyrus W. Philbrick (SF, USA)
This is a good book for beginner soccer coaches. It gives a lot of detailed instruction about coaching basic skills and technique, great things to know for coaches trying to improve young soccer players. The book also gives a lot of good practice plan ideas. The only problem is that it can be long winded and get caught up in the details of perfecting technique. Other books provide much more of the good stuff: how to let the game be the teacher and let kids have fun. And a lot of websites now have great ideas for practices on line. Coach-Smart.com has a lot of fun games with great coaching tips. Saves a lot of time to have the good stuff: full practice plans with detailed instructions about fun games, simple diagrams, and expert advice on what to say to players.
-Save Youth Soccer
great coaching skills for beginner coaches May 12, 1999
4 out of 17 found this review helpful
goes in detail of coaching young kids [fantastic
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