Soccer Awareness: Developing the Thinking Player

by Wayne Harrison

This follow up to Harrison's hugely popular Recognizing the Moment to Play is 400+ pages of unique insight into training players to think and make decisions quickly both on and off the ball. Chock full of exercises with clear illustrations, coaching points and progressions, this is a very "usable" coaching book. Also includes Wayne's revolutionary Continuums of Development Model of player assessment, which will help you identify your players' strengths and weaknesses and target problem areas in your training sessions.About the Wayne Harrison is the author of 9 soccer coaching books and is a frequent contributor to coaching journals and magazines worldwide. He is a former professional player in England and Finland and has coached professionally in England and the US. Wayne is currently the Director of Coaching for the Youth Academy of Al Ain Football Club in the United Arab Emirates, one of the most famous and successful football clubs in the Middle East and Asian regions of the world.

408 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 14, 2007

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