Skills & Strategies for Coaching Soccer - 2nd Edition

by Hargreaves, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780736080224
• ISBN10: 0736080228
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-28
• Publisher: Human Kinetics

Summary

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 Soccerhas 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 Soccerprovides 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 Socceris an invaluable guide for coaching any team in any setting. The best team doesn't always winbut it usually does.

Table of Contents

Drill Finder	p. viii
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Key	p. xviii
Preparing to Coach
Ethics and Your Coaching Philosophy	p. 3
Personal Coaching Strategies	p. 9
Group Coaching Strategies	p. 17
Skills and Techniques
Collecting and Controlling the Ball	p. 27
Passing	p. 55
Dribbling	p. 95
Striking the Ball	p. 123
Shooting	p. 141
Heading	p. 157
Goalkeeping	p. 173
Tackling and Defensive Skills	p. 199
Tactics and Teamwork
Principles of Play	p. 233
Team Formations and Systems of Play	p. 243
Coaching Teamwork	p. 265
Tactics in Defense, Midfield, and Attack	p. 275
Set Pieces	p. 287
Team Management
Physical and Mental Preparation for Games	p. 323
Working With Problem Players and Parents	p. 333
Fitness and Conditioning for Soccer	p. 343
Glossary	p. 365
About the Authors	p. 371
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