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Books : Sports : Soccer : Soccer : Soccer for Kids
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Written by soccer great and championship Stanford coach Bobby Clark, COACHING YOUTH SOCCER: THE BAFFLED PARENT'S GUIDE tells you how, starting at point zero, an uninitiated coach can meld kids into a team and help them enjoy one of the most rewarding experiences of their youth. (In the end, you may be the one who reaps the biggest reward, as you watch kids learn and grow in an experience they'll treasure for a lifetime.)
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A games-based alternative to tedious rote exercises, guaranteed to keep practices fun, engaging, and productive
Great Soccer Drills provides soccer coaches with a great way to make every soccer practice active, fun, and productive. Coaches get 125 games guaranteed to keep kids moving and excited while teaching them basic skills, sharpening their reflexes, and building their confidence and decision-making ability. Written by two of North America's foremost names in youth soccer coaching, it also includes guidelines on how to create just the right blend of drills to hold the attention of six- to twelve-year-old players.
Great Soccer Drills can be used in conjunction with the bestselling Coaching Youth Soccer: A Baffled Parent's Guide or as an excellent stand-alone resource for spicing up any practice.
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"Scott and David have done a fantastic job getting into the psyche of these very young players. What I really love is their emphasis on FUN, and that kids learn by DOING. This book will make a great extra assistant as you prepare for your season."—Bobby Clark, Head Soccer Coach, University of Notre Dame; author of the best-selling Coaching Youth Soccer: The Baffled Parent's Guide
Coach. You're the new coach of your child's soccer team, and you're not sure how to teach your players the fundamentals of soccer while also ensuring they have fun. Don't panic—Coaching 6-and-Under Soccer is here to help.
Coaching 6-and-Under Soccer offers straightforward advice, tips, and techniques, including reward-based games and drills; your first six practices in an easy-to-photocopy format; and how to teach soccer basics to 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds in ways that are fun for you and your players. This complete tool kit for a new coach includes:
- The twelve easy-to-run drills that work best with young soccer players
- How to keep your young players happy and active while they learn
- How to make parents your best assistants and supporters
- How to keep the focus where it belongs—not on winning or losing, but on having fun
- How to have a terrific time coaching young players
"Coaching 6-and-Under Soccer shows you how to teach your young players the right way—through lively games that encourage kids to use their creativity and self-expression when playing."—Brandi Chastain, Olympic and World Cup Soccer Champion; author of It's Not About the Bra: Play Hard, Play Fair, and Put the Fun Back into Competitive Sports
"I have no doubt that young players will come to love the game of soccer if their coaches follow the simple, straightforward advice in this book."—Anson Dorrance, Head Women's Soccer Coach, University of North Carolina; author of The Vision of a Champion: Advice and Inspiration from the World's Most Successful Women's Soccer Coach
"I highly recommend this terrific book to coaches who want to instill good sportsmanship and the love of the game in their young players while building a solid foundation in basic soccer skills and teamwork."—Jeremy Gunn, Head Men's Soccer Coach, Fort Lewis College
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Packed with drills and tips for practice and game daysThe fun and easy way(r) to kick-start your soccer coaching skills
Volunteering as a youth soccer coach can be a great experience, both for you and your squad. But what if you've never coached before? Don't worry! This friendly guide explains soccer rules, shows you how to approach coaching, and gives you practical pointers on improving your team's soccer skills and encouraging good sportsmanship.
Discover how to
- Understand soccer rules
- Develop a coaching philosophy
- Teach soccer fundamentals
- Run great practices
- Lead your team during a game
- Communicate effectively with parents
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101 Great Youth Soccer Drills is an exhaustive collection of the very best drills available, providing a solid foundation for you to build your players' skills. Filled with simple step-by-step instructions and diagrams, plus a sample practice program, this encyclopedia of drills provides you with solid skill-building fundamentals as well as the advanced techniques you need to get your players in top form.
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As a soccer coach, you need to know how to teach basic skills and run solid practices. Teaching Soccer Fundamentals explains how to maximize young athletes’ learning of essential techniques and tactics through fun and efficient practice sessions.Including helpful photographs and illustrations as well as instructions that are easy to understand and apply, this book shares more than 30 years of soccer coaching experience. Author Nelson McAvoy offers tips for maintaining kids’ short attention span and methods for boosting participation, including short-sided games. Teaching Soccer Fundamentals will make next season a more rewarding experience for you and your players.
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"No matter what your level of experience, this is a must-read for every girls' youth soccer coach."—Simon Riddiough, Women's Soccer Coach, Hofstra University
Coach. You just volunteered to coach your daughter's soccer team, and you can't tell a drag back from a takeover or an offside from a goal kick.
Don't despair—Coaching Girls' Soccer is here to help. From your first team meeting to the season-ending pizza party, Coaching Girls' Soccer will get you started and keep you going. In addition to learning how to teach the fundamental skills of passing, dribbling, heading, and shooting, you'll learn how to encourage competition and athleticism in girls, how to build their confidence and self-esteem, and how to deal with performance changes as girls mature. You'll even develop the coaching style that works best for you and your players. Before you know it, you'll be coaching players who are moving, motivated, and most of all, having fun.
- Survive your first practice and first game
- Promote good habits, concentration, and teamwork
- Learn what's unique about coaching girls from 4 to 14!
- Coach goalkeepers using the chapter on goalkeeping and special keeper drills
- Make practices safe, fun, and rewarding
- Improve your players and your team
"A very clear, engaging guide to coaching girls' soccer. Coach Hounsome is widely recognized for providing girls with the highest level of soccer development within a highly enjoyable atmosphere."—Gary Book, President, NOGA Soccer
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In this book, one of the USA's top high school coaches, shares her expertise on all aspects of coaching. From establishing a coaching philosophy to making decisions during a game, this is the approach that has made her programme perennially successful. The book covers every aspect of the coach's role including developing and perfecting skills, evaluating players and defining their roles, organising productive practices, scouting and preparing for games, adding variety to training and developing leadership qualities. Featuring seasonal training plans, drills for developing fundamental to advanced skills and advice for handling off-the-field challenges, this is the most comprehensive resource available for novice and experienced coaches alike.
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"Developing Youth Football Players" is a comprehensive guide for coaches of players aged 7-14 that provides specific coaching instruction at various levels of development. The book presents coaching philosophies, skill instruction and practice games for players in three age groups: 7 years and up, 10 years and up, and 12 years and up. More than 150 games and exercises and 10 competitions are spread among four development levels to provide a sound, proven and progressive system to help young players improve. Coaching instruction is provided on how to teach and interact with young players to help ensure the children continue enjoying the game. The book is aimed specifically at international youth football coaches and organisations, as well as parents of young international football players.
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You're on the freshly cut and line-painted field: whistle around your neck, a clipboard in one hand, and a bag of soccer balls slung over your shoulder. You're cool, calm, and collected - that is, until a rowdy group of youngsters show up, eager to play a game they have no idea how to play. How do you keep the attention of a group of overactive adolescents and teach them meaningful ways to improve their soccer skills? More important, where do you even begin? Don't sweat just yet. It's simple with "The Confident Coach's Guide To Teaching Youth Soccer". Veteran soccer player and coach, Joe Provey provides youth soccer coaches with the tools they need to run a successful practice and to teach their players skills that will continue to grow. Built around the philosophy that children need a strong base of correctly taught fundamentals to evolve into competent players, it takes the coach through a step-by-step process of how to design a practice that is fun and produces positive results. This innovative manual offers advice on how to best work with different age groups; plan an efficient and enjoyable practice; teach soccer basics, drills, and games for teaching ball containing and dribbling, shooting on goal, throw-ins, defensive and offensive movements, agility, and speed. How to successfully manage and coach a winning soccer team?
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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
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Coaching Youth Softball is written especially for the unprepared parent thrust into the role of coaching his or her 8- to 12-year-old child's softball team. Upbeat and inspirational, it schools new coaches in the fundamentals of controlling, motivating, and encouraging a disparate group of kids in the art and science of softball.
Parents learn the logistics of running a youth team and the specifics of coaching softball. They learn how to match drills to a player's skills and motivation level and gain a wealth of detailed instructions on such specifics as how to run a successful practice and manage during a game.
- Takes a drill-based approach to teaching basic skills
- Reviews softball fundamentals for inexperienced parents
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As participation in youth soccer continues to grow, so does the need for youth soccer coaches. Whether youre 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, youll 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. 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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Tap the full soccer potential of your players as they grow and learn the game. Developing Youth Soccer Players is a clearly written, colorfully illustrated resource filled with useful guidance on age-appropriate coaching.Author Horst Wein provides tailor-made training and competition programs for the physical and mental maturity levels of players age 7 through 14. These programs center on simplified games and corrective teaching methods based on Wein’s internationally acclaimed Soccer Development Model. This model matches players’ formative levels with the coaching style and playing challenges to produce both optimal improvement and enjoyment.
Developing Youth Soccer Players will help you be a better teacher and coach. Use it to give your players a great start to a successful soccer career.
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Youth Soccer Drills will help you teach young soccer players the important concepts of space and movement and all the basic soccer skills. More than your average skills book, this guide features• 77 individual, partner, and group drills listed from beginner to intermediate;
• a handy Drill Finder to help you pick appropriate drills;
• tips on how to teach difficult-to-learn concepts like movement and defensive pressure;
• a developmentally appropriate approach to teaching soccer skills; and
• much more.
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The first book endorsed by AYSO -- the organization that soccer moms and dads trust most -- that presents all the basics of youth soccerIf you are a soccer parent, coach, or referee, or just a youth soccer enthusiast, The Official American Youth Soccer Organization Handbook is for you. Dr. Vincent Fortanasce, Lawrence Robinson, and John Ouellette, the National AYSO coach, have written the book that will help everyone to better understand the rules, regulations, and skills that are essential to the game and a rewarding soccer experience for the children who play. In a straightforward, easy-to-follow style, The Official AYSO Handbook covers:
- the five philosophies of AYSO: everyone plays, balanced teams, open registration, positive coaching, and good sportsmanship
- the responsibilities of each position
- the complete rules of youth soccer, including offside, throw-ins, and penalty kicks
- skills such as ball control, goalkeeping, heading, and shooting
- short-sided soccer rules for children between the ages of six and twelve
- information for the prevention and treatment of the most common soccer injuries
AYSO is the best and most trusted youth soccer authority. And now, Fortanasce, Robinson, and Ouellette have collected AYSO's expertise in this indispensable book -- a must-have for anyone who embraces the important role that youth soccer can play in a child's life.
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If you're going to coach your first soccer team, you know you've got a lot to learn about teaching kids this unfamiliar sport. If you coach soccer now, you want to improve your team. If your son or daughter plays soccer, you want to know what good coaching is all about. This is the book for you!
Jim San Marco (head soccer coach at the highly successful Edgemont High School program in New York State) and Kurt Aschermann (coauthor with Gerard O'Shea of Coaching Kids to Play Baseball and Softball) have written this friendly, easy-to-use, fully illustrated guide that teaches you how to run a successful soccer team -- from setting up the first practice to choosing calisthenics to running individual and team skill drills to getting everyone a ride home at the end of the game.
Emphasizing that helping kids to have fun and learn about team spirit, competition, and themselves is far more important than winning games, the authors detail every step of building a soccer team that plays well and plays healthy. Instructions are fully illustrated with photos and diagrams:
* Teaching the rules
* Pre-practice preparation
* Choosing the right equipment
* Evaluating talent and assigning positions
* Drills and exercises to teach fundamentals
* Offensive and defensive tactics
* Game strategiesYou may not have played much soccer or know much about it, but Coaching Kids to Play Soccer will teach you everything you need to know. Don't start your season without it!
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Provides drills for the safe and proper technical development of players ages 7-10.
Includes drill for: Warm-Up, Ball Control, Kicking Techniques, Passing, Dribbling, Goalkeeping and Warm-Down.
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This entertaining and easy-to-read guide is perfect for coaches and parents of youth soccer players aged 7 through 14. It touches briefly on the origins of the game, then transitions into basic guidelines for coaching kids (and managing parents!). Covers the organizational structure of the team, age-specific coaching information as well as 50 youth soccer drills. Contains dozens of diagrams, pictures and illustrations.
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The best and most comprehensive coaches guide to youth soccer. Includes everything a youth coach needs to be an effective coach.