Soccer Practice Games - 3rd Edition

by Luxbacher, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780736083669
• ISBN10: 0736083669
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-26
• Publisher: Human Kinetics

Summary

Soccer's top practice games book returns bigger and better than ever! Engage your players and make each practice more challenging, productive, and fun with 175 (tentative) games! Soccer Practice Games presents the best small-sided games for developing technique, skills, and soccer sense in players. In the third edition, you'll find more games on every aspect of play: Warm-up and conditioning Dribbling, tackling, and shielding Passing and receiving Shooting and finishing Heading Goalkeeping Each game maximizes player involvement, activity, and learning and contains at least one major objective related to player or team development. A new chapter presents large-group games that are ideal for teaching team tactics while simulating match competition. Best of all, each game can be adapted to accommodate players of various ages and abilities. Designed for youth through high school competition, Soccer Practice Gamesprovides you with the most effective and fun way to learn and teach the game. This is one book you'll refer to again and again.

Table of Contents

Game Finder	p. vi
Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction: Make Practice Games Work for you	p. xix
Key to Diagrams	p. xxiii
Planning Practice Sessions	p. 1
Warm-Up and Conditioning Games	p. 5
Dribbling, Shielding, and Tackling Games	p. 31
Passing and Receiving Games	p. 55
Shooting and Finishing Games	p. 79
Heading Games	p. 103
Individual and Small-Group Tactical Games	p. 119
Large-Group and Team Tactical Games	p. 149
Goalkeeping Games	p. 175
About the Author	p. 199
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