Skills & Strategies for Coaching Soccer

by Alan Hargreaves, Richard Bate

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 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.

Genres: Sports, Soccer

392 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Kari Preston · Rating 2 out of 5]

it's great if you're coaching boys soccer. I, however, am coaching a team of ten-year-old girls and this book is geared more toward high school boys and older.

[Samantha Simmons · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super helpful for soccer coaches!

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

This may be the best soccer coaching book I've ever read -- and I've read a lot of them.