Provides step-by-step instructions on how to perform soccer techniques, improve basic skills, and enhance fitness.

A guide to the basic skills, tactics, and rules of soccer as well as information about diet, training, equipment and more.

Essential Soccer Skills progresses from beginner basics to advanced techniques, featuring illustrated sequences on how to learn and master key skills, and tips on how to improve your overall form. Essential Soccer Skills covers everything from the basics and rules of the game to the types of players--goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, attackers--to skills and team tactics like stepovers, heading, and volleying. Essential Soccer Skills is the go-to guide for anyone interested in learning more about soccer and becoming a better player.

If a young athlete is serious about soccer, then he or she needs to practice the necessary skills. Top coaches base their training programs on a number of crucial techniques that help make good players into great players. This book shares and delves into these cutting-edge professional techniques and gives readers all the information they need to develop their talent and get all the essential soccer skills under their belts. From running with the ball to passing, from shooting to goalkeeping, all the skills young players need to be effective and successful are included here. It's like having one-on-one access to your own coach at all times. With tips on choosing the right equipment, an introduction to the game, and hundreds of detailed step-by-step images, readers will find everything they need to start training more effectively right away. The author, Ian Howe, is a fully qualified coach in England's Football Association. He specializes in the coaching of children aged 5-16. He co-founded the successful Palace Soccer School in the early 1990s, a school that has forged close links with many top soccer league clubs throughout the southeast of England.

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This book provides 117 drills for teaching soccer skills through fun, easy to use games. The drills are designed to teach the fundamentals of soccer in an enjoyable, positive manner that keeps children focused, engaged, and entertained. Your team will get a great workout, maximum touches on the ball, and develop the basic soccer skills needed to be successful soccer players. Whether you have never coached soccer before or are an experienced coach, you will find useful drills in this book to hold the attention of 5, 6, and 7 year olds! In addition to the 117 soccer drills found in this book you will find 107 variations so there is always a fresh way to teach or reinforce a skill. Topics covered: Warm up, Dribbling, Defending, Passing, Receiving, Long Kicks, Shooting, Team Play, Throw-ins

Ever wish you had pre-planned drills to use in practice? Wish you had drills with specific coaching points that doubled your confidence by pointing out what to teach your team? Want to learn which drill best develops the "Big 3" soccer skills? Are you ever uncertain that your practices are not developing your players quickly enough? If any of these situations describe where you are at, then this book is for you. Making practices into an enjoyable experience for your players while also ensuring they are developing quickly is not an easy feat. Other soccer books on drills provide too little guidance and are not written to make it easy for you to reference the drills prior to a practice. The drills in this book have accompanying graphics for you to follow along easily. Sure, there are likely some drills you already enjoy doing with your team, but this book provides 17 drills covering the topics of passing and receiving, dribbling and foot skills, defending, and shooting and finishing. Also, this book details 6 games that players love to play. Please note that though this book does cover some of the technical aspects of soccer such as the proper form for passing and receiving a pass, it does not cover the steps of every technical topic. Other books in the Understand Soccer series have been created to cover more technical subjects and are also available on Amazon.com. Outcomes of applying the facts in this book: - Know the key thing to do in practices to help your team develop twice as quickly. - Learn what topics to emphasize based on the age of your players. - Discover how to motivate players with different levels of drive. - Understand 5 important things every coach should teach in practice. - Have easy drills to set up no matter the size of your team. Why does learning these things matter? Well, building your soccer knowledge grows your coaching confidence. Coaching self-esteem is key for you, the coach, to build the belief in yourself to know how to handle the difficult situations that can arise from drills during practice. It is time for your coaching of Soccer Drills to reach the next level. Become the coach that changes every game from here on out and the coach whose team every player wants to be on. Imagine how nice it will feel knowing that you do not need to plan every drill for your team this season. Pick up your copy today by clicking BUY NOW.

Featuring 50 different soccer skills, good for budding David Beckhams, rising Ronaldos and potential Paul Robinsons, this title contains cards that cover various aspects of the game from attack to defence. It is suitable for coaches as well as players.

Practical pocket guides, for quick and easy reference any time, anywhere Football Skills is a handy instruction manual, covering the fundamentals of football with step-by-step illustrations and clear, bite-sized tips. Offering everything you need to know to get started, along with a wealth of expert tricks and tips to improve skills and techniques, from ball control and kicking skills, to mastering the concept of the offside-rule. Progresses from the very basics for beginners, through all the elements essential to becoming adept at football, to advanced techniques to keep you ahead of the game. Ideal for anyone looking to take up football � this new series offers perfect, at-a-glance reference to keep with you at all times.

Presents instructions on the basic movements of soccer, including passing, shooting, and goalkeeping.