Manual for Coaching Soccer
"Organizing Your Youth Soccer Team"

Here is my review of the book that makes coaching soccer fun and pleasurable experience. If you are not a coach yet, it'll help you to become one.
If you are a coach already, it'll help you to become better one.

"Organizing Your Youth Soccer Team"
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Administrative Concerns This section of the book covers the more general topics related to coaching soccer: coaching philosophy, goal setting, communication, organizing a new or existing program, and similar topics. Instructional Guide This part of the book describes the mechanics of setting up and directing practice sessions. It includes elements of good offensive and defensive plays, use of practice space, key concepts to emphasize during practices and how to account for player size and skill level. Exercises The last segment contains over 100 soccer drills and exercises equally effective for both beginners and advanced players. It covers all the most important categories of soccer skills and tactics: passing, shooting, heading, feints, wall play, leaving, overlapping, defensive plays and goalie practice.

What's great about this book, is that first two parts will help you tremendously set up and organized your program, team and practices. Believe me, it's an awesome, easy to follow step-by-step instruction how to start your coaching "job".

The best part: You don't have to know anything about coaching soccer at all!

After short time you'll feel like you've been born to coach…and not necessarily to coach only soccer but any other youth sport. Actually this book will benefit any youth coach of any sport.

However, the third part relates only to the game of soccer. The drills and exercises are well explained with illustrations, descriptions and instructions.
Of course I understand that you can get probably 1000's of free (I always question quality of free stuff) drills on the Internet. And that's good. Bigger selection allows us to have a variety of choices. The only problem is with making the right choice.

That's why "Organizing Your Soccer Team" is so unique. Every set of exercises follows very well written introduction and explanation. You'll know instantly when, where, why and how to implement these drills into your practices. And that's probably the essence of teaching skills and tactics. After mastering this book you'll be able very easily to pick and use the drills, which are right for your team, from any source. You'll be coaching soccer with full confidence.
I guarantee it.

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These two books, fantastic supplement for "Organizing Your Youth Soccer Team", transfer the whole package into Full Manual for Coaching Soccer.
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Table of Contents

PART 1 - Administrative Concerns CHAPTER 1 - To Be a Coach People Outlook Sports Philosophy Positive Motivation Goal Setting To Learn Within the Sport Communication CHAPTER 2 - How to Organize a Coaching Program Facilities, Leaders and Funds Parent Participation PART 2 - Instructional Guide CHAPTER 3 - To Play Soccer What Is Most Important How Should You Coach? What Is Play Practice? Additions to Play Practice How About Technique? CHAPTER 4 - Basics of Offensive and Defensive Play Offensive Play Defensive Play CHAPTER 5 - Instruction in Play Practice Example: Instruction of Wall Play Analysis Reflection Talk in the Game CHAPTER 6 - Organization Planning and Organizing a Practice How to use the Exercises Sample Practice Session Organizing Two Groups at a Time

PART 3 - Exercises CHAPTER 7 - Passing Creating Free Play Areas CHAPTER 8 - Feints Shooting Feint Heel Feint Turning Feint Passing Feint Body Feint CHAPTER 9 - Wall Play The Ball Handler's Role The Wall's Role CHAPTER 10 - Leaving CHAPTER 11 - Overlapping CHAPTER 12 - Defensive Plays Marking Press Support and Coverage CHAPTER 13 - Shooting CHAPTER 14 - Heading CHAPTER 15 - Goalie Practice Why Special Goalie Practice? What Should the Goalie Practice? Suggestions for the Goalie Metric Conversion Chart Glossary

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