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Making the Ball Roll : A Complete Guide to Youth Football for the Aspiring Soccer Coach - Ray Power

Making the Ball Roll

A Complete Guide to Youth Football for the Aspiring Soccer Coach

By: Ray Power

Paperback | 1 May 2014

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Making the Ball Roll is the ultimate, complete guide to coaching youth soccer.

This focused and easy-to-understand book details training practices and tactics, and goes on to show you how to help young players achieve peak performance through tactical preparation, communication, psychology, and age-specific considerations.

Each chapter covers, in detail, a separate aspect of coaching to give you, the football coach, a broad understanding of youth soccer development.

Each topic is brought to life by the stories of real coaches working with real players.

Never before has such a comprehensive guide to coaching soccer been found in the one place. If you are a new coach, or just trying to improve your work with players - and looking to invest in your future - this is a must-read book!

- Analyse how football coaching has dramatically grown and changed over the last decade, and help prepare your players for the modern game

- Understand the age-related development of players: technically, tactically and physically

- Gain an insight into new research around psychology in soccer and the growing effects of social considerations like communication, teamwork, leadership, and rapport

- Consider age-appropriate methods, sessions, and curriculum planning, used by top coaching programmes

- Learn the methods of top coaches like Mourinho, Guardiola, Sir Alex Ferguson and Wenger and apply them to your work with youth players

- Study the methods of top development academies like Barcelona, Liverpool and Atletico Mineiro; and national associations like Germany''s DFB, Holland''s KNVB, the English FA, and US Soccer

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