Step Up And Coach Youth Soccer

Coaching youth soccer is an awesome experience! Whether you are stepping on to the field to coach for the first time or you have been coaching youth soccer for years, coaching is a continual learning process. Success comes from a coachs ability to teach, communicate, motivate, be organized and make soccer fun. Step Up and Coach Youth Soccer is a complete A to Z book looking at all aspects of coaching youth soccer. It is my hope that this will be a book that you will use again and again for your coaching experiences.

Hotshot forward Melina Stern is ready to start her last season of middle school soccer. But there's a problem. There won't be a middle school team this year! The program has been cut due to budget constraints, and the girls are forced to try out for the high school JV team. At first Melina is secretly excited for the tougher gameplay, but when the older girls begin teasing her relentlessly, she struggles to hold her own on the field. Now Melina is doubting her skills Ñ and her love for soccer. Can Melina perform like the talented striker she is, and can the girls ever play like a true team?

Provides youth soccer coaches with the tools they need to run a successful practice and to teach their players skills that will continue to grow.

This is the definitive manual for coaching America's fastest-growing sport for kids aged 8-19. Written for both beginning and seasoned coaches, The Complete Book of Coaching Youth Soccer shows you--in concise, easy-to-understand terms--how to organize, motivate, and lead your youth soccer team to success on the field. Included are: Step-by-step teaching points Rules and strategies of the game More than 100 illustrative diagrams More than 75 practice and competitive drills Complete 10-week season plans for each of three separate age groups Designed for easy, on-the-field reference, author Simon Whitehead's proven practice drills are designed progressively to develop maximum skills for both individual and team play. Simon Whitehead lives in Minneapolis and has coached high school and college soccer in England and in the United States for more than ten years. Using proven European teaching methods, he shows the soccer coach how to maximize each young player's enthusiasm, involvement, and personal success in soccer.

The popularity of youth soccer in the United States has increased dramatically in recent years. The number of players and spectators has risen and soccer now rivals the more traditional American sports of baseball, basketball, and football. This is a study of current youth soccer training methods at professional clubs in Europe--where soccer is an extremely competitive sport--and a guide to applying those methods to young people in the United States. The author draws much of his information from personal observation of the FC Barcelona, Newcastle United, Glasgow Celtic, Munich 1860, and Slavia Prague professional teams in Europe, and provides an overview of the state of youth soccer in the United States. Chapters cover such topics as facilities, equipment, organization, and environment, player evaluation, training timetables and components, coaching, and philosophies of youth soccer. Also included are approximately 100 diagrams of soccer training exercises for youth coaches.

This guide to coaching female athletes of all ages shows how to build a team and provides invaluable advice on the differences between coaching males and females. The authors include exercises that foster teamwork and develop essential skills. They also answer parents' most common questions, such as how to tell if the coach is doing a good job and what to do if a child wants to quit. Filled with stories about the Olympic and World Cup championship teams, this useful handbook is infused throughout with DiCicco's philosophy that at every level playing soccer (or any sport) is about "playing hard, playing fair, playing to win, and having fun."

Soccer Made Easy has sought out the top professionals to contribute to this book. The content is designed to provide season practice sessions for players age 9 through 12 years. Using this book, coaches have their entire season prepared in advance, with the added comfort of knowing what they are teaching is age specific, fun and progressive. In addition to entire practice sessions, all the important skills in Passing, Ball Control, Shooting, Heading, Dribbling, Defending and Goalkeeping are explained and illustrated. Additional sections feature Methodology, Team Management, Custom Drills, Safety and Equipment, Laws of the Game and a Coach's Resource section. Book jacket.

During my first soccer coaching gig (for my son's team), I thought I had everything figured out because I knew how to play soccer and most aspects of the game. Time proved that was not the case as I was in for a rude awakening. In this book, I talk about the reality check of this and other experiences where mistakes were made and how you can avoid them. Your time as a youth soccer coach will benefit by not doing what I and other coaches did over a period of ten years. I'm sure you will enjoy reading it and become not only a great soccer coach but a lasting and inspiring leading figure for your players.