Confident Coach's Guide to Teaching Youth Soccer From Basic Fundamentals to Advanced Player Skills and Team Strategies

You're on the freshly cut and line-painted field: a whistle around your neck, a clipboard in one hand, and a bag of soccer balls slung over your shoulder. You're cool, calm, and collected-- that is, until a rowdy group of youngsters shows up, eager to play a game they have no idea how to play. How do you keep the attention of a group of overactive adolescents and teach them meaningful ways to improve their soccer skills? More important, where do you even begin? Don't sweat just yet. It's simple with The Confident Coach's Guide to Teaching Youth Soccer. Veteran player and coach Joe Provey 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. Built around the philosophy that children need a strong base of correctly taught fundamentals to evolve into competent players, The Confident Coach's Guide to Teaching Youth Soccer takes the coach through a step-by-step process of how to design a practice that is fun and produces positive results. This innovative manual offers advice on how to best work with different age groups; plan an efficient and enjoyable practice; and teach soccer basics, drills, and games that develop ball-containing and dribbling, shooting on goal, throw-ins, defensive and offensive movements, agility, and speed. The Confident Coach's Guide to Teaching Youth Soccer will turn your team's goals into having fun and improving skills.Provey, Joe is the author of 'Confident Coach's Guide to Teaching Youth Soccer From Basic Fundamentals to Advanced Player Skills and Team Strategies', published 2006 under ISBN 9781592288083 and ISBN 1592288081.