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Skills & Stratagies for Coaching Soccer
by Alan Hargreaves. The key to successful coaching is getting your players to make successful decisions on the field. This book gives you the tools to do just that. You'll have acccess to over 100 drills for teaching skills and techniques; more importantly, you'll know how to develop these skills in realistic game situations with beginning, intermediate, and advanced players.

Essential skills are presented, including collecting and controlling, passing, dribbling, kicking, heading, goalkeeping, and the throw in. But the unique feature of this book is that for each skill presented, you'll find drills for players at different levels of development.

And no one knows the importance of skill development better than Alan Hargreaves- one of england's top soccer coaches. He has coached 5-year-olds to pros, using the same skills and techniques presented in this book. You'll learn the what, how, and why of soccer through:

  • offensive moves and countering defensive moves
  • 120 drills for beginning, intermediate, and advanced players
  • coaching points for each drill
  • a fitness program for soccer
  • sample game situations and how to coach in those situations
  • 246 high-quality illustrations of field diagrams and skill execution
  • methods of coaching appropriate to individuals or groups
  • Contents
    Chapter 1 - ethics and coaching philosophy
    Chapter 2 - individual coaching stratagies
    Chapter 3 - group coaching stratagies
    Chapter 4 - coaching collecting and controlling
    Chapter 5 - coaching passing
    Chapter 6 - passing games
    Chapter 7 - coaching dribbling
    Chapter 8 - coaching tackling and defensive skills
    Chapter 9 - coaching kicking
    Chapter 10 - coaching shooting
    Chapter 11 - coaching heading
    Chapter 12 - coaching goalkeeping
    Chapter 13 - coaching the throw in
    Chapter 14 - understanding team play
    Chapter 15 - team formations and systems of play
    Chapter 16 - tactics at corners and free kicks
    Chapter 17 - coaching tactics and teamwork- methods
    Chapter 18 - coaching tactics and teamwork- practice situations
    Chapter 19 - physical and mental preparation for games
    Chapter 20 - handling problem players
    Chapter 21 - fitness for soccer