Download or read book Soccer iQ Presents Possession written by Dan Blank and published by SoccerPoet LLC. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POSSESSION is a book for coaches of all levels who want their teams to pass the ball and pass it well. It combines a thorough explanation of possession concepts with 30 practical possession exercises to help your team develop its ability to keep the ball. Easy-to-understand diagrams help you understand the layout and design of these exercises. More importantly, the exercises include explanations about the critical coaching points AND the most common mistakes the players will make when playing these exercises. These insightful tips give coaches a head start by showing you what to expect once an exercise begins, the mistakes to look for and the proper corrections to make.
Download or read book Soccer iQ Presents High Pressure written by Dan Blank and published by SoccerPoet LLC. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this installment of the Soccer iQ series, college soccer coach and best-selling author, Dan Blank, educates coaches and players on the most effective ways to implement a high-pressure style of team defending. Nearly 80% of goals scored are the result of three or fewer passes, and more than half of all goals scored begin when a team wins possession of the ball in its attacking half of the field. The numbers clearly indicate a statistical advantage to winning the ball in the opponent’s end of the field, and that’s exactly what high pressure is designed to do. High pressure is perhaps the most misunderstood term in soccer’s vocabulary. There are countless coaches who want their teams to play high pressure, but many of them aren’t always quite so sure about what that means. They tend to translate ‘high pressure’ into ‘run around like you stole something until we score.’ They only extract the urgency of which the term implies without much understanding of the nuance that makes high pressure a formidable system of team defense. Those coaches understand that high pressure requires a high work rate, but they don’t understand the tactical savvy that can maximize the output of that work. As a result, their teams feature only the madness but not the method behind successful high pressure. High Pressure provides an easy-to-follow blueprint for coaches and players so they know not only what to do, but why they are doing it. In this book, Dan Blank clarifies the differences between high and low pressure and explains the big picture of high pressure defending. You will learn the roles of each position, the importance of restraining lines, and how to set up pressure funnels to win the ball in the attacking half. Coach Blank also details the telltale cues that signal a team to step up or back off its pressure, and much, much more. High pressure defending requires more than just hard work. It requires organization, communication and an indefatigable team spirit. This book will show you how to create and implement these elements to get a maximum return on your team’s effort.
Download or read book Soccer IQ written by Dan Blank and published by SoccerPoet LLC. This book was released on 2012 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Amazon #1 Best-Seller! Named the #1 Soccer Book by Football.com. Named a Top 5 Book of the Year by the NSCAA Soccer Journal! Soccer iQ is the first book for soccer PLAYERS! In a world saturated with books about how to coach soccer, Dan Blank finally gives players a book on how to think it. Standing on two decades of collegiate coaching experience, Blank has catalogued soccer's most common mistakes and provides simple, connect-the-dots solutions to help players solve their soccer problems. Soccer IQ is soccer's first text book for players; an almanac of smarter soccer decisions intended to flatten out the learning curve. It covers everything from hunting rebounds to the value of the toe-ball; from playing in the rain to the world's dumbest foul. Blank tells his story from the familiar and humorous voice of a coach who has endured years of stress at the hands of his players. Written in plain-spoken language, Soccer IQ is an easy read and a quick-fix to the most common yet critically important soccer problems. Includes a bonus chapter on the college recruiting process. " Finally someone wrote this book! If every soccer player read Soccer IQ, every coach would be a lot happier." Mark Francis - Head Coach University of Kansas "Dan Blank has just written soccer's first definitive text book." Colin Carmichael - Head Coach Oklahoma State University "This book has immediately become required reading for my team. I'll take 30 copies." Steve Nugent - Head Coach UNC-Greensboro "Soccer IQ may the best practical soccer book I have ever read. There's no fluff. Just nuts and bolts principles that we teach every day. It'll solve a lot of your soccer problems." Steve Holeman - Head Coach University of Georgia
Download or read book Soccer iQ Presents Shutout Pizza written by Dan Blank and published by SoccerPoet LLC. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WARNING: This is not a goalkeeping book. From the best-selling author of Soccer iQ comes a book dedicated to teaching and organizing a back four. Coach Dan Blank led the Southeastern Conference's best defense at two different universities in consecutive years. It began with a handbook he created for his defenders that ensured everyone was on the same page. Shutout Pizza is a vastly expanded version of that handbook. It introduces the governing principles that guided the SEC's best defenses, and covers a broad spectrum of scenarios that commonly occur during matches. Shutout Pizza is packed with diagrams that will help the reader visualize the concepts discussed in the text, and includes several of most effective drills for training these concepts. This is an excellent book for coaches and players who want to defend more effectively.
Download or read book Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You re a Girl written by Dan Blank and published by SoccerPoet LLC. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is what your coaches would have said to you if you were a boy, told through the story of a small-college soccer team that won more games than it ever had a right to win. It’s an inspiring and straightforward look at the qualities that define the most competitive females, and what separates the ones who get it from the ones who don't. Everything Your Coach Never Told You is the instruction manual for female athletes who want to do more than just play. It's for those girls who want to win, win big, and never apologize for it. It's the call-to-arms for competitive female athletes who dare to color outside of the lines. Not recommended for readers under the age of 13.
Download or read book Soccer iQ Vol 2 written by Dan Blank and published by SoccerPoet LLC. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's as if Dan was sitting right next to you with a dry erase board saying, 'See what I mean?' This is another must have book for the soccer lover." ~ Ray Leone, Head Coach, Harvard A follow-up to the Amazon #1 best-seller, Soccer iQ, Volume 2 is written in the same conversational and humorous tone as its predecessor. Volume 2 is an easy read that identifies more of the most common soccer mistakes and provides players with simple, connect-the-dots solutions that they can immediately implement into their games. It is another must-have book for any serious soccer player. "Soccer iQ Vol. 2 gives you way more than your money's worth." ~ Tony Amato - Head Coach, Arizona
Download or read book Developing Game Intelligence in Soccer written by and published by Reedswain Inc.. This book was released on with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no greater power on the soccer field than the game intelligence of the players. With a great variety of attractive and effective simplified games, specially designed to simulate the most important game situations that may occur on the pitch, Horst Wein shows how to stimulate most of the aspects which are involved in game intelligence in young soccer players as well as professionals. Remember, Playing soccer without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
Download or read book Deliberate Soccer Practice written by Ray Power and published by Bennion Kearny Limited. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soccer is in transition. There is now a growing trend away from 'drills', towards sessions that are more variable and which involve more decision making. But coaches have one burning question - how? The "Deliberate Soccer Practice" series shows coaches how to evolve their coaching sessions. It aims to ensure that players are 'cognitively engaged', with all players involved all of the time. It is about offering exercises which have players actively making regular contact with the ball, making decisions, changing decisions depending on what is happening, and moving to adapt to what the ball and other players are doing. That is the real game after all! Aimed at football coaches of all levels, but with a particular emphasis on coaches who work with youth players, "50 Passing & Possession Football Exercises to Improve Decision-Making" is comprised of 20 Technical Practices and 30 Possession Practices. They are carefully designed to be adaptable to suit the needs of the players you work with; to challenge them and give them decisions to make. The sessions look to make soccer complex and realistically difficult - no passing in queues from one cone to the next with no interference. Crucially, the exercises offer a means to accelerate player development effectively and enjoyably.
Download or read book Coaching Psychological Skills in Youth Football written by Chris Harwood and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful footballers are typically those who are best able to regulate their emotions, fix their attention, utilise effective interpersonal skills, and remain highly motivated and self-assured in the face of consistent challenges. These behaviours are the hallmark of mentally tough, emotionally intelligent players, and can be grouped under the 5Cs of: Commitment, Communication, Concentration, Control, and Confidence. The 5Cs, however, are rarely innate - they are a product of a player's long-term psycho-social development and, crucially, they can be coached and nurtured. The aim of the 5Cs program, in this book, is to show coaches how to develop these important psycho-social skills and help young players to understand how they can truly achieve their potential. Written specifically for soccer coaches of all levels, Coaching Psychological Skills in Youth Football details each C in a methodical and practical manner with real-world exercises for training and matches. The book is relevant to soccer coaches working with 5-16 year-old players, with individual techniques and practices marked for appropriate age groups. By weaving these techniques into their normal coaching practice, coaches will help educate young players to optimise their motivation, discipline, composure, self-belief and teamwork. A complete 12 month development plan is included alongside a case study from a youth coach who has actually experienced the 5C journey. Coaching Psychological Skills in Youth Football will build your confidence as a coach as you learn how to grow and apply a world-class knowledge of sport psychology in youth football.
Download or read book Rookie written by Fred Dohrmann and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary softball coach Fred Dohrmann provides the essential, how-to survival guide for college-bound softball players. More conversation than book, ROOKIE gives rising first-years a revealing preview of life as a college athlete, and provides them with a wealth of tips for surviving and thriving in their debut season. Rookie covers topics that incoming first-years will be starved to learn, including preparing for fall ball, understanding your coach, adapting to the college game, and a remarkably clear-cut strategy for earning playing time. "ROOKIE" is the instruction manual for rising college softball players.
Download or read book The Ultimate Guide to Coaching U 12 Soccer Teams written by Mark Higginbotham and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This one of a kind guide includes exactly what every U12 coach needs. The step-by-step text instructions and session diagrams make it simple for a coach of any level to understand and immediately use with their team." -Wayne Harrison, Former Pro Player & UEFA Professional "A" License Coach Since 1996 If You Had A Step By Step Guide With Everything You Needed To Coach Your U-12 Team, How Much Valuable Time Would That Save You? The Ultimate Guide To Coaching U-12 Soccer Teams provides a complete library of modern sessions and must-know tips that coaches of any level can easily take and implement with their teams to take them to the next level FAST! YOU WILL DISCOVER: * Over 60 of the BEST SESSIONS for U-12 Teams that will SKYROCKET their passing, attacking, defending, possession, dribbling, skills so they can develop into game changing players, win more games as a team and have more fun! * How to SPEND LESS TIME PLANNING while enjoying your time on the field running sessions, developing your players and doing what you really enjoy most...COACHING! * Simple STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS on how to setup, run, and coach through each session! * How To Coach with Confidence and GAIN THE RESPECT of Players and Parents! Compliment your own coaching style by offering adaptable, scalable and incrementally achievable sessions and coaching tips catered to the U12 age group. You will find over 60 simple, relevant and modern exercises to broaden your team's skill sets while increasing enjoyment and engagement in sessions. Boost your skill set as a coach and develop elite level players and teams for years to come with this guide. Mark Higginbotham and Eric Vogel teamed up in 2014 to create Coaches Training Room out of their passion for helping coaches develop players and teams that have fun and win more games. Their resources arm coaches with powerful tools that ignite confidence, save time, and get results. "An invaluable insight from a coaching perspective into an effective, season long curriculum. I would highly recommend any soccer coach to take time out of their schedule to give this a read!" -Sam Minihan, FA Licensed Coach & Pro Player with Stockport County FC "This guide is perfect for any U12 coach seeking exercises with progressions to plan and prepare for the season." -Luca Bertolini, UEFA "B" Licensed Coach "This one of a kind guide includes exactly what every U12 coach needs. The step-by-step text instructions and session diagrams make it simple for a coach of any level to understand and immediately use with their team." -Wayne Harrison, Former Pro Player & UEFA Professional "A" License Coach Since 1996
Download or read book Coaching the Modern 4 2 3 1 Soccer Formation written by Marcus DiBernardo and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-26 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4-2-3-1 is a system that Arsenal, Real Madrid, Everton, Bayern Munich and many more professional teams use. The formation can be employed in many different ways depending on the personnel available. It can be used to play a conservative, defensively sound counter-attacking game or opened up for an ultra-offensive approach. The interchanging of positions, room for tactical adjustments, defensive soundness, room for creativity and overall fluidity of the system is what makes the 4-2-3-1 effective. This book will take you through the fundamental roles and responsibilities of each player within the system. It also provides multiple training exercises, explains and demonstrates individual and team movement patterns, covers the strategy of team defending and team attacking in the 4-2-3-1 and a number of ways to modify the system.
Download or read book Soccer IQ written by Dan Blank and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blank has catalogued soccer's most common mistakes and provides simple, connect-the-dot solutions to help players solve their soccer problems"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Football Intelligence written by Israel Teoldo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soccer is the biggest game in the world and has proved to be an unprecedented phenomenon of social impact, inhabiting a prominent place in the daily lives of millions of human beings, a game that has impact even in the most remote places. In an ever-changing world of soccer coaching and tactics, player intelligence has become increasingly important, providing the essential ability to act effectively in a given moment. Therefore, in recent years, the tactical component has been increasingly valued and diffused. Around the world, this dimension of sport performance is being studied and applied by many professionals in the field, from the youth academies all the way through to the professional level. This book is designed to help those who devote much of their time to improving the quality of the game, by coaching and training highly informed, creative and intelligent players. These coaches devote their time and energy to improve players’ and teams’ performances. In turn, match analysts, physiotherapists, psychologists, clinicians and the sport science team dedicate themselves to optimize resources that help boost the performance levels of the players, the coaches and the team. Football Intelligence: Training and Tactics for Soccer Success presents procedures and ideas that, besides assisting in the task of evaluating the tactical performance of soccer players and teams, also allows improving their expression throughout the learning and training phase. This book will be key reading for football coaches and players alike, as well as students and practitioners of sport psychology and performance analysis.
Download or read book Soccer Skills written by Chest Dugger and published by Abiprod Pty Limited. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to take your soccer game to the next level? Or just looking for ways to improve your team? This book can help solve your problems. Soccer is the world's most popular sport. In the Summer of 2018 the latest World Cup Finals take place in Russia, with some of the best (and, perhaps, luckiest) teams in the world participating. The competition will see teams divided into mini leagues, based on their world rankings and a draw. The top two teams from each group go forward to the knock out stages. The best two will compete the final. There is a more than reasonable bet that existing champions Germany will once again lift the trophy, although Brazil, Argentina, Spain and France will all fancy their chances. The Belgians have the team of a life time, and could triumph, while the likes of Saudi Arabia and Panama should make the most of their time in Eastern Europe - it will probably be short lived. As for Russia itself, the lowest ranked side in the competition, well, who knows? Home advantage can count for a lot. This short focus on the World Cup is of great relevance to the book that follows. Consider the team below: Those of you with good football knowledge will spot that these great players, along with many more, are some of the giants of the game who will not feature in the World Cup Finals, other than perhaps in the commentary box, pundit's chair or newspaper columns of June 2018. How can this be? How can such individuals not represent their countries on the biggest stage of all? The answer, as we know, is that soccer is team game, where the collective talents of the players outweigh the individual skills of the maestro. The great sides do, naturally, incorporate such talents within their squad, but it is so often the case that a team that works together and combines well outperforms a side made up of more talented individuals who are less effective team players. And the secret to success is possession of the football. Passing and the possession this helps to retain really are two of the most important parts of team play for a soccer team. This book will look at a number of ways both coaches and players can improve such aspects of their own side's performance.
Download or read book 45 Professional Soccer Possession Drills written by Marcus DiBernardo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the best possession drills I have used in my 20+ years of coaching. The training sessions come from Barcelona FC, Everton FC, Arsenal FC, Wigan Athletic, Liverpool FC, Stoke City, Valencia FC, Sporting Lisbon FC, Inter Milan, Ajax FC and many more famous clubs. Coaching possession is about teaching decision-making, guiding players to become problem solvers, helping players understand the importance of positioning and placing players in training sessions that challenge them. One of the most important aspects of possession training is the number of meaningful touches a player gets. A competitive possession drill should demand player's play on the edge of their ability to be successful while receiving many touches. The tempo of the drills should be high, forcing quickness of thought and speed of play. In the modern game players must be able to play under pressure without losing the ball. Players and teams that can hold the ball under pressure know how to save seconds on the ball. Playing possession soccer is all about positioning and coordinated movement. Without proper positioning keeping the ball would be impossible. Positioning and coordinated movement allows players to create overloads all over the field. Creating a numerical advantage is critical to unbalancing the opponent, keeping the ball and scoring goals. Focus on the details when training your team. Make sure you are providing an environment for maximum learning and growth. There will always be debates about possession soccer and whether controlling possession means winning more games. I personally believe players and teams that possess the ball well have more tools and options to break their opponents down. Possession training makes players well-rounded, skillful, composed, gives them the ability to find soccer solutions on the field and increases passing accuracy. Teams with higher passing accuracy win more games. Teams with overwhelming possession (over 65%) win more games as well. "45 Professional Soccer Possession Drills" will be a valuable tool for developing your players' possession ability.
Download or read book Player Development for Possession Soccer written by Martin Bidzinski and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long clearances, aerial battles, hard tackles, 50/50 balls, all ahead forward moving mentality, constant changes of possession, hopeful crosses into a crowded goal area, functional players with limited skill sets... these are all 'features' of the Second Ball Game, the "kick it long and hope for the best" strategy that has permeated English football and in turn soccer in America for years. It is hard to imagine that whomever coined the phrase "The Beautiful Game" had this type of football in mind. At the other end of the spectrum there exists a style of play that features skillful players, build up play using short accurate passes in all directions and a premium on maintaining possession. This is Possession Soccer, also known as the First Ball Game, and it has seen a resurgence in recent years due in large part to the successes of FC Barcelona and the Spanish National Team. The main deterrent for coaches looking to implement this style of play is the dearth of players with the necessary skills, as youth coaching methods in many countries have catered to the long ball game mentality, producing players with skills limited by their functional roles and thus incapable of playing possession soccer to an acceptable standard. This book offers coaches an idea of the kind of training needed to produce skillful, first ball game players. Through the use of choreographed cone formats, players develop the first touch skills, vision and awareness required to play Possession Soccer.
