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One Goal

Author : Bill Beswick

Publisher : Human Kinetics

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 43,35 MB

Release : 2015-10-01

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 1492585769

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In soccer, perhaps more than any other sport, success hinges on team performance rather than individual play. As coaches are well aware, inspiring a group of players to perform as a finely tuned, coordinated unit is an on-going challenge. While several factors interfere with cohesion and flow of a soccer team, no published work has specifically addressed how to prevent and conquer such problems . . . until now. In One Goal: The Mindset of Winning Soccer Teams, internationally renowned performance psychologist and author of the best-selling Focused for Soccer, Bill Beswick, delivers an unrivaled guide to developing a winning team mindset. One Goal is arranged sequentially, providing invaluable insights on the various challenges facing coaches when pursuing a winning team mindset. You’ll find techniques, tools and suggestions to implement when addressing both common and unique challenges throughout the season. Specific contexts such as cup finals and tournaments are featured as well. Recognizing team mindset as a factor distinguishing success from failure, One Goal features proven strategies from one of soccer’s top performance psychologists. It’s a soon-to-be classic that you will turn to again and again.



Passionate Soccer Love

Author : Tanya H. Keith

Publisher : AuthorHouse

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 38,23 MB

Release : 2014-05-07

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1496910818

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Passionate Soccer Love: A Memoir of 20 Years Supporting US Soccer chronicles the travels of Tanya Keith through seven World Cups and beyond. Her stories are funny, entertaining, and will enthrall readers with her perseverance, passion, and dreams. Experience the history and camaraderie of American Soccer supporter culture as you get to know her soccer family. Through tales of soccer adventure, Ms. Keith shows how her contagious passion has paved the way for her dreams to become reality and how following your passion can bring balance between love and life, business and family. Praise for Passionate Soccer Love: Tanya Keith has been traveling to U.S. soccer games since 1993, including seven World Cups, and her highly readable book is a revealing (and fun) window into the adventurous life of a hardcore U.S. fan and her family. The growth of U.S. supporter culture is one of the great stories in American sports, and Keith has been there to see it all. I couldnt put this book down. Grant Wahl, Sports Illustrated - Senior Writer, Fox Sports Television, SiriusXM FC Channel 94 Tanya Keith is someone who lives out and embodies each of the words in the title of her book, Passionate Soccer Loveindividually and collectively. With humor and grace, she weaves entertaining and heartfelt stories of her two families, the one with her husband and children, and the other her soccer family, which, like her support for the U.S. mens national team, has no bounds. If, like her, youve fallen so hard and so deep for soccer, and appreciate the struggles and joys of familyon the field and offyoull see yourself in the pages of her book. Passionate Soccer Love is a highly worthy and recommended addition to the bookshelf of any soccer fan. Jimmy LaRoue, The Daily Advance





My name is Simón

Author : Adolfo Benjamin Kunjuk

Publisher : Adolfo Benjamin Kunjuk

Page : 120 pages

File Size : 44,17 MB

Release : 2024-10-28

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN :

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In a vibrant world filled with noise and color, 12-year-old Simon navigates life with Asperger’s syndrome, viewing the world through an extraordinary lens of curiosity and detail. With cheerful determination, he shares his daily adventures, revealing the challenges he faces in social situations and the overwhelming sensations that often accompany them. As Simon learns to articulate his feelings, he discovers the importance of friendship, family, and support systems. The story follows him as he embraces his unique identity while tackling issues like bullying, financial strain at home, and the search for self-acceptance. With the help of a therapeutic companion, supportive family members, and newfound friends, Simon embarks on a journey of resilience and growth. When Simon proposes a bake sale to support his treatments, he not only raises funds but also fosters a sense of community and understanding among his classmates. As he opens up about his experiences and shares his love for art, Simon learns that differences can be a source of strength, connection, and inspiration. Through heartfelt reflections, joyous moments, and the creation of meaningful friendships, this poignant story highlights the beauty of embracing individuality and the power of empathy in building a kinder, more inclusive world. Join Simon as he transforms his challenges into adventures, inspiring readers to see the extraordinary in the everyday and celebrate the uniqueness of every individual.



The Intelligent Leader

Author : John Mattone

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 147 pages

File Size : 44,21 MB

Release : 2019-10-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1119566339

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Grow Your Leadership. Enrich Your Life. Leave a Lasting Legacy. What is great leadership? What separates the merely competent leaders from those rare individuals who leave a lasting impression on everyone around them? As one of the world’s most in-demand CEO coaches and top leadership gurus, John Mattone has worked with some of our brightest business minds—Apple’s Steve Jobs, Pepsi’s Roger Enrico, and Nielsen’s Armando Uriegas—and he’s identified the key qualities that, together, make up the mindset of great leadership. In The Intelligent Leader, Mattone lays out an accessible, practical, and compelling path that anyone can take to become the kind of leader that brings enrichment to the lives of others, enjoys a more fulfilling life, and leaves a lasting legacy. Each chapter uses a variety of real-world examples, tools, and assessments to explore one of Mattone’s 7 dimensions of Intelligent Leadership, including: • Thinking differently, thinking big • Having a mindset of duty vs. a mindset of entitlement • Leveraging your gifts and addressing your gaps • Having the courage to execute with pride, passion, and precision Readers will have complimentary online access to the Mattone Leadership Enneagram Inventory ($110 value), which offers a personalized assessment of your leadership style and maturity.



The Floating Field

Author : Scott Riley

Publisher : Millbrook Press ™

Page : 43 pages

File Size : 24,97 MB

Release : 2021-03-02

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1728427371

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On the island of Koh Panyee, in a village built on stilts, there is no open space. How will a group of Thai boys play soccer? After watching the World Cup on television, a group of Thai boys is inspired to form their own team. But on the island of Koh Panyee, in a village built on stilts, there is no open space. The boys can play only twice a month on a sandbar when the tide is low enough. Everything changes when the teens join together to build their very own floating soccer field. This inspiring true story by debut author Scott Riley is gorgeously illustrated by Nguyen Quang and Kim Lien. Perfect for fans of stories about sports, beating seemingly impossible odds, and places and cultures not often shown in picture books. "A compelling book for football [soccer] fans and readers seeking examples of ingenuity."—starred, Publishers Weekly



Manga For Dummies

Author : Kensuke Okabayashi

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 520 pages

File Size : 28,8 MB

Release : 2011-05-12

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 111805105X

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If you love Manga, you’ll eat Manga For Dummies, right up. This step-by-step guide shows you how to create all of your favorite Manga characters from rough sketch through final full-color renderings. You’ll build your skills as you draw animals, mythical creatures, superheroes, teenagers, and villains—along with their weapons, cars, and homes. Soon you’ll be inventing your own characters and placing them in stylish poses and stirring action scenes. Before you know it you’ll be knocking out storyboards and plotlines for you own Manga book. Find out how to: Gear up for drawing with all the right tools and materials Develop the basic skills of Manga figure drawing Customize and accessorize your Manga characters Design spectacular weapons, gadgets, mechas, and vehicles Create 3-D drawings and give characters motion and emotion Write an exciting Manga Story Complete with a stunning, full-color 8 page insert, Manga for Dummies is your real-life guide to the ultimate fantasy world.



Golden and Blue Like My Heart

Author : Roger Magazine

Publisher : University of Arizona Press

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 37,52 MB

Release : 2007-09-27

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 9780816526376

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For fans of pro soccer in Mexico City, the four most popular teams represent distinct identities that embody such attributes as political power, nationalism, and working-class values. One of these teams, the Pumas, is associated with youthfulness, and its equally youthful fans take pride in the fact that their heroes have not yet been corrupted by corporate or political interests. This ethnographic study examines Puma fans’ understanding of the ideal that the team represents, considers the practices they employ to express and sometimes contradict this ideal, and reveals how soccer fandom in contemporary Mexico has emerged as a nexus of tensions among competing visions of state and society. Roger Magazine takes readers inside Mexico’s soccer stadiums to explore young men’s participation in struggles over the future of that country’s urban society. His firsthand observations of the fan clubs—las porras—yield a unique inside look at confrontations in the stands over group organization, particularly at the emergence of rebel segments within the clubs. His study offers a close-up look at ground-level struggles over social organization in contemporary urban Mexico, showing how young male fans both blindly reproduce and consciously manipulate images of violence and disorder derived from national myths about typical urban Mexican men. Golden and Blue Like My Heart offers a new way of understanding the dynamics of fandom while shedding new light on larger social processes and youth culture in Mexico. And with its insight into soccer culture, politico-economic transition, and masculinity, it has important and wide-reaching implications for all of Latin America.



Soccer Culture in America

Author : Yuya Kiuchi

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 229 pages

File Size : 29,57 MB

Release : 2013-12-30

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 0786471557

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What does the world's favorite sport mean in the United States? Despite the common belief that it is only a women's sport, an immigrants' sport, a small kids' sport--or that hating soccer is very American, the new essays in this volume attest that soccer indeed is a very American and very popular sport, around since the 1940s. The all-new essays address issues concerning the business of the game, the meaning of men's and women's professional, national, high school and youth soccer, the community formed by the game, the media, the referees, the hooliganism and the treatment of the sport in academe.