Download or read book Keeper written by Mal Peet and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling story of a poor and gawky kid who mysteriously becomes the world's greatest goalkeeper — a seamless blend of magic realism and exhilarating soccer action. "And you found it, this thing you were looking for?" It was darker now, and the city below Faustino's office was a jazzy dance of neon signs and traffic. The big man went to the window and looked down at it all, spreading his large hands on the glass. "No," he said. "It found me." When Paul Faustino of LA NACION flips on his tape recorder for an exclusive interview with El Gato — the phenomenal goalkeeper who single-handedly brought his team the World Cup — the seasoned reporter quickly learns that this will be no ordinary story. Instead, the legendary El Gato ("The Cat") quietly narrates a spellbinding tale that begins in a mythic corner of the South American rain forest, where a ghostly but very real mentor, the Keeper, emerges to teach the gangly boy the most thrilling secrets of the game. Combining vivid imagery and heart-stopping action, this evocative, strikingly ethereal novel about loyalty, passion, and magic will haunt readers, regardless of their love for soccer, long after the story is ended.
Download or read book The Goalkeeper written by Yuri Leving and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Goalkeeperis a new scholarly almanac devoted to the art of Vladimir Nabokov. Himself an ardent goalkeeper, the author of Lolita viewed soccer as more than a game: "I was less the keeper of a soccer goal than the keeper of a secret" (Speak, Memory). The inaugural collection features contributions from two dozen leading Nabokov scholars worldwide, including academic articles (Neil Cornwell, Gerard de Vries, Samuel Schuman, and others); roundtable discussions (Brian Boyd, Jeff Edmunds, Priscilla Meyer, David Rampton, Leona Toker); interviews (Dmitri Nabokov, Alvin Toffler); archival materials; the Kyoto Nabokov conference report; and book reviews (Pekka Tammi, Zoran Kuzmanovich, Galya Diment). The Nabokov Almanac, edited by Yuri Leving, is affiliated with the Nabokov Online Journal, published since 2007.
Download or read book The Complete Soccer Goalkeeper written by Timothy Mulqueen and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make your last line of defense as strong as it can be.The Complete Soccer Goalkeeperoffers a comprehensive reference and training guide for goalkeepers and their coaches. It shows how to develop keepers from the youth leagues to the pros and covers all aspects of what many believe is soccer’s most challenging role.
Download or read book The Keeper written by Tim Howard and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspiring, down-to-earth memoir the revered goalkeeper and American icon idolized by millions worldwide for his dependability, daring, and humility recounts his rise to stardom at the 2014 World Cup, the psychological and professional challenges he has faced, and the enduring faith that has sustained him. In The Keeper, the man who electrified the world with his amazing performance in Brazil does something he would never do on a soccer field: he drops his guard. As fiercely protective about his privacy as he is guarding the goal on the field, Howard opens up for the first time about how a hyperactive kid from New Jersey with Tourette’s syndrome defied the odds to become one of the world’s premier goalkeepers. The Keeper recalls his childhood, being raised by a single mother who instilled in him a love of sports and a devout Christian faith that helped him cope when he was diagnosed with Tourette’s in the fifth grade. He looks back over his fifteen-year professional career—from becoming the youngest player to win MLS Goalkeeper of the Year to his storied move to the English Premier League with Manchester United and his current team, Liverpool’s Everton, to becoming an overnight star after his record-making performance with the United States Men’s National Team. He also talks about the things closest to his heart—the importance of family and the Christian beliefs that guide him. Told in his thoughtful and articulate voice, The Keeper is an illuminating look at a remarkable man who is an inspirational role model for all of us. The Keeper is illustrated with two 8-page color photo inserts.
Download or read book So You Want to Be a Goalkeeper written by Joe Machnik and published by . This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Soccer Goalkeeper Training Manual written by Lorenzo Dilorio and published by Reedswain Inc.. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete handbook dealing with the basic principles of goal-keeping technique and the planning of training sessions; it also includes a large number of exercises to help coaches train their keepers to identify and correct the most common mistakes.
Download or read book The Soccer Goalkeeper written by Christian Puxel and published by Reedswain Inc.. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by French National Team Goalkeeper Coach Christian Puxel and French National Goalkeeping Coaches Academy Chairman Jean-Marie Lawniczak is an outstanding technical handbook for goalkeepers and coaches at every level. Included are discussions, drills and competitive games for developing all aspects of goalkeeper technique: Movements; Catching; Diving; Reducing Shooting Angles; Distribution.
Download or read book HANDBALL GOALKEEPER TRAINING written by ERDAL KAYNAK and published by ERDAL KAYNAK. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very good goalkeeper makes a good team as a perfect team. Handball goalkeeper plays in a team but he is totaly a team itself. As a matter of fact, the game takes place in the form of a duel between the shooter and the goalkeeper. Every duel with the shooter is a new test and a new challenge. The task of the players is to help the goalkeeper as much as possible in this duel. The aim of the whole team is to block the opponent's shots. The only goal of the goalkeeper is to block the opponent's shots. All coaches agree that the most important player in the team is the goalkeeper. But they don't have enough time to train them. I hope this situation will be changed. However, whether or not we give good training, there will absolutely no changing in the role of goalkeepers, in the game. Their success or failure will certainly affect the result of the game. Although he is a member of the team, we need to know that the process of training of goalkeepers who have a different responsibility is a very difficult and never-ending process. A goalkeeper may be the best in the world in his 20s, while he must have a very good education until he is in his 30s to be the best in the world. I will try to convey my experiences to train or prepare a good goalkeeper in this book. It is very really cool to be a goalkeeper. Let's make sure that our goalkeepers enjoy this job.
Download or read book The Boxer and The Goal Keeper written by Andy Martin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Paul Sartre is the author of possibly the most notorious one-liner of twentieth-century philosophy: 'Hell is other people'. Albert Camus was The Outsider. The two men first came together in Occupied Paris in the middle of the Second World War, and quickly became friends, comrades, and mutual admirers. But the intellectual honeymoon was short-lived. In 1943, with Nazis patrolling the streets, Sartre and Camus sat in a café on the boulevard Saint-Germain with Simone de Beauvoir and began a discussion about life and love and literature that would pull them all together and finally tear them apart. They ended up on opposite sides in a war of words over just about everything: women, philosophy, politics. Their fraught, fractured friendship culminated in a bitter and very public feud that was described as 'the end of a love-affair' but which never really finished. Sartre was a boxer and a drug-addict; Camus was a goalkeeper who subscribed to a degree-zero approach to style and ecstasy. Sartre, obsessed with his own ugliness, took up the challenge of accumulating women; Camus, part-Bogart, part-Samurai, was also a self-confessed Don Juan who aspired to chastity. Sartre and Camus play out an epic struggle between the symbolic and the savage. But what if the friction between these two unique individuals is also the source of our own inevitable conflicts? The Boxer and the Goalkeeper: Sartre vs Camusreconstructs the intense and antagonistic relationship that was (in Sartre's terms) 'doomed to failure'. Weaving together the lives and ideas and writings of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, Andy Martin relives the existential drama that still binds them inseparably together and remixes a philosophical dialogue that speaks to us now.
Download or read book Goalkeeper in Charge written by Matt Christopher and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-12-19 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tina Esparza loves soccer, especially that it's a team sport where no one player is in the spotlight. Imagine her surprise when the coach asks her to train as the team's goalkeeper. Will Tina be able to overcome her shyness and accept a position that puts her in the center of attention?
Download or read book Programming Game AI by Example written by Mat Buckland and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2005 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes in detail many of the AI techniques used in modern computer games, explicity shows how to implement these practical techniques within the framework of several game developers with a practical foundation to game AI.
Download or read book The Keeper The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard Young Readers Edition written by Tim Howard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uplifting memoir of U.S. national soccer team goalkeeper Tim Howard, adapted for young readers. In this heartwarming and candid account, Tim Howard opens up about how a hyperactive kid from New Jersey with Tourette Syndrome defied the odds to become one of the world's premier goalkeepers. Tim shares his remarkable journey in an accessible way that will speak to soccer fans, kids struggling with issues that make them feel "different," and any young person looking for a compelling autobiography to read for a report or just for fun. After a successful seventeen-year professional soccer career, Tim became an overnight star during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. His heroic performance in the game for the United States against Belgium, in which he saved an astonishing fifteen shots—the most for any goalkeeper in a World Cup game—made him a household name as well as a trending internet meme. In the course of 120 minutes, Tim went from a player known mainly by soccer fans to an American icon, loved by millions for his dependability, daring, and humility. The book includes a glossary and a section of full-color pictures.
Download or read book Goalkeeper Training Methodology written by Vaggelis Lappas and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book does not intend to discover something new or make any innovations. Its purpose is to organize our existing knowledge. It was written to address the needs that occur from daily training with young goalkeepers, which sets the base for analysis, planning and adapting methodology to the needs of every individual goalkeeper. This book presents the 14 categories of Goalkeeper training, both in order of importance and by age. Each training category includes a rich and specialized range of exercises that is accompanied by photographs and illustrations. In total there are 168 exercises to cover every aspect of the specialized Goalkeeper training.
Download or read book Spalding s Official soccer Foot Ball Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goalkeeper written by Tony DiCicco and published by Reedswain. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles by Tony DiCicco and the directors of the SoccerPlus Goalkeeping Academy covering all aspects of goalkeeping are covered: Technique, Positioning, Fitness, Nutrition, Tactics, Psychology, Communication, College Selection and Equipment. This book is for goalkeepers and goalkeeper coaches looking to raise their game to the next level.
Download or read book My Greatest Save written by Briana Scurry and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply moving and painfully honest memoir from the trailblazing, World Cup–winning, Olympic gold medalist, and US Women’s soccer goalie Briana Scurry Briana Scurry was a pioneer on the US Women’s National Team. She won gold in Atlanta in 1996, the first time women’s soccer was ever played in the Olympics. She was a key part of the fabled “99ers,” making an epic save in the decisive penalty-kick shootout in the final. Scurry captured her second Olympic gold in 2004, cementing her status as one of the premier players in the world. She was the only Black player on the team, and she was also the first player to be openly gay. It was a singularly amazing ride, one that Scurry handled with her trademark generosity and class—qualities that made her one of the most popular players ever to wear a US jersey. But Scurry’s storybook career ended in 2010 when a knee to the head left her with severe head trauma. She was labeled “temporarily totally disabled,” and the reality was even worse. She spiraled into depression, debt, and endured such pain that she closed out her closest friends and soccer soulmates. She pawned her gold medals. She walked to the edge of a waterfall and contemplated suicide. It seemed like the only way out until Scurry made her greatest save of all. A memoir of startling candor, My Greatest Save is a story of triumph, tragedy, and redemption from a woman who has broken through barriers her entire life.
Download or read book Soccer Skills and Drills written by James W. Lennox and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dribbling -- Receiving -- Passing -- Shooting -- Heading -- Tackling -- Goalkeeping -- Applying techniques tactically -- Developing positional tactics -- Coaching techniques and tactics.
