20 Soccer Finishing Exercises


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This is the second book in the Professional Academy Soccer Training Series. This edition focuses on the top 20 soccer finishing exercises that Coach DiBernardo personally uses with his own teams. The exercises can be adapted to fit a wide variety of age groups and ability levels. These are the same modern trainings that top clubs like FC Barcelona use.




German Soccer Passing Drills


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Train like the World Champions! Over the past few years, a new trend has become ever more prominent in the soccer world: passing often, fast, and including all players in the game. Combining this with their own personal style, we have seen teams reach new heights of success from FC Barcelona to Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund and, most recently, the German National Team at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. But what does it take to learn this ‘art’ of passing? What are the methodological and technical requirements for becoming the new Schweinsteiger, Messi, or Neuer? In this book, the only of its kind, two German League certified coaches have created the ultimate guide to passing. Using the “Hyballa-te Poel-Passing-Puzzle,” they present every type of pass there is in modern soccer, with lots of drills for each type. From the goalkeeper to the center forward, everyone can learn passing with these exercises.




64 Small Sided Soccer Games


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Elite Soccer Drills


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The game's top players have remarkable speed, agility, and coordination demonstrated through precision passing, incredible ball control, and an uncanny ability to anticipate and react to the opposition's moves. Although the best players can make these skills look easy, each is a result of dedication, commitment, and countless hours of practice. In Elite Soccer Drills, renowned coach Mike Matkovich shares the same drills he has used in developing some of soccer's premier players. The 82 drills emphasize execution in high-level play while addressing the finer points of passing and receiving, attacking and defending, and heading. With drills for both individual players and teams, as well as practice tips and coaching suggestions, Elite Soccer Drills is the perfect practice tool for developing the high-level skills and soccer sense players need in order to excel.




Essential Soccer Skills


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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.




The Soccer Academy


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The practices are designed to inspire and motivate the players in real game situations that give them freedom of choice and movement both in and out of possession. The basic techniques of passing, dribbling, shooting, tackling and heading will all be used but with use to solve a match problem rather than constant repetition. The sessions have goals and objectives for both the attacking and defending players in order to aid the tempo, competition and enjoyment of the practice.




Detail


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Detail offers a unique insight into the many levels of depth and perspective that currently exist for coaches of the beautiful game. With almost 2 million listens to the Modern Soccer Coach Podcast, Gary has spent four years talking to some of the biggest and brightest names in the sport. At the same time, he's been working at the professional level and pursuing his own coaching journey. This book takes the life of a coach and goes deeper to question certain facets and separate theory from practice. From development to results and family to career advice, this book has everything for a coach who wants to explore coaching much deeper than sessions and games. In a tough profession, Gary delivers coaches with perspective that can help them navigate through the tough times and enjoy the good times.







Goalkeeper Training Program - 120 Drills to Produce Top Class Goalkeepers


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Maarten Arts (UEFA A Coaching Licence) has many years of coaching experience at the elite level all around the world and has created a full blueprint of 120 Drills to produce top class goalkeepers. This training program has proved to create better, all round goalkeepers at every level, from juniors up to top-level international goalkeepers. This book shows you how to develop goalkeepers with specific drills, but it will also inspire you to create your own drills in the image of this program. Included with each drill, there are detailed coaching points which are essential to develop goalkeepers in the best way. This book focuses on the fundamental technical skills needed to become a top class goalkeeper and includes chapters "Drills with Outfield Players" and "Goalkeeper Games" to show you how to use these skills in situations similar to a match. Each of the 12 chapters in this book includes 10 Drills on a specific goalkeeping technique or topic: 1. CATCHING 2. FALLING 3. DIVING 4. PUNCHING 5. PARRYING 6. HIGH BALLS 7. ONE V ONE 8. TECHNICAL SKILLS WITH THE FEET 9. FOOTWORK 10. DISTRIBUTION 11. DRILLS WITH OUTFIELD PLAYERS 12. GOALKEEPER GAMES Maarten Arts UEFA A Coaching Licence Royal Union Saint Gilloise (Belgium) Goalkeeping Coach (2018 - Present) Al Wahda (Abu Dhabi) Head Goalkeeping Coach (2017 - 2018) Wadi Degla FC (Egypt) Head Goalkeeping Coach (2015 - 2017) Lierse SK (Belgium) Goalkeeping Coach (2014 - 2015) Saudi Arabia National Team Goalkeeping Coach (2013 - 2014) Umm Salal (Qatar) Goalkeeping Coach (2010 - 2013) FC Utrecht Goalkeeping Coach (1998 - 2009) "I wish you all great success in your careers and I hope the drills in this book will help make your goalkeepers TOP Class." - Maarteen Arts




Clear Coaching


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Coaching matters. Furthermore, we know this endeavour depends upon capable leaders. So what? For most people, it ends there. However, for you start it starts here. You read voraciously and jot notes on napkins. You care about kids. You care about your craft. In fact, you are drawn deeply into this role that found you as much as you found it. For every ten moments of frustration you are gifted one of inspiration and that is enough for you. You are an educator. This talent activation handbook is a practical and powerful read for you who lead young people.