Making the ball roll: a complete guide to youth football for the aspiring soccer coach
Date
2014
Authors
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Bennion Kearny
Abstract
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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
Keywords
Soccer