Skills & Strategies for Coaching Soccer
Skills & Strategies for Coaching Soccer-2nd Edition provides key advice and over 125 drills for coaches working with players of all abilities. Coaching philosophy, individual skills, team management, advice on systems of play, tactics in attack and defense, and fitness and conditioning are all covered in this definitive handbook.
The key to successful coaching is preparing your players to make intelligent decisions on the field. For years, the best-selling Skills & Strategies for Coaching Soccer has helped coaches of every level do just that. Now, soccer’s premier coaching resource has been updated and expanded to provide you with more insights into developing individual talent, team tactics, and winning play.
Skills & Strategies for Coaching Soccer provides you with over 125 drills for teaching skills and techniques. You’ll also learn how to develop these skills in realistic game situations with beginning, intermediate, advanced, and all-star players.
Essential skills are presented, including collecting and controlling, passing, dribbling, kicking, heading, and goalkeeping. You’ll then apply those individual skills with attacking and defensive tactics, team formations, and set pieces. With Skills & Strategies for Coaching Soccer, you’ll learn the what, how, and why of soccer through these essentials:
Over 125 drills for beginning, intermediate, advanced, and all-star players
- Progressing basic drills into realistic, competitive situations
- Tactics in attack and defense
- Tactics in set plays
- Team management
- Mental and physical preparation for games
- Handling problem players and parents
- Fitness and conditioning
- Preparing and developing coaching sessions
- Establishing a coaching philosophy
Skills & Strategies for Coaching Soccer is an invaluable guide for coaching any team in any setting. The best team doesn’t always win—but it usually does.
Contents
Drill Finder
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I Preparing to Coach
Chapter 1. Ethics and Your Coaching Philosophy
Chapter 2. Personal Coaching Strategies
Chapter 3. Group Coaching Strategies
Part II Skills and Techniques
Chapter 4. Collecting and Controlling the Ball
Chapter 5. Passing
Chapter 6. Dribbling
Chapter 7. Striking the Ball
Chapter 8. Shooting
Chapter 9. Heading
Chapter 10. Goalkeeping
Chapter 11. Tackling and Defensive Skills
Part III Tactics and Teamwork
Chapter 12. Principles of Play
Chapter 13. Team Formations and Systems of Play
Chapter 14. Coaching Teamwork
Chapter 15. Tactics in Defense, Midfield, and Attack
Chapter 16. Set Pieces
Part IV Team Management
Chapter 17. Physical and Mental Preparation for Games
Chapter 18. Working With Problem Players and Parents
Chapter 19. Fitness and Conditioning for Soccer
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