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101 Great Youth Soccer Drills: Skills and Drills for Better Fundamental Play

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At the moment when I write this, this book is number 2 in the sales rankings for soccer coaching books. This was the actual reason for me buying the book. I am a youth coach and I like to have as many coaching resources as possible. I have bought about 10 coaching books from Amazon.com based on their user reviews or on their sales rankings.

How this book ranks so high is a mystery to me. It was a disappointment in more than one way.

The diagrams are awful.

The title seems to be just for marketing purposes - there are of course drills in the book, but they are not numbered in any way and some of the chapters don't contain any specific drills, just a few indications.

The drills are not very convincing - many drills where the kids have to wait in line.

I appreciate the hard work of the author and I have got a few good ideas from this book but it is worse than most other books in the same price range that are below it in the sales rankings. (Again: at the moment when I write this, this book is number 2 in the sales rankings for soccer coaching books.)

Skills and Strategies for Coaching Soccer is better.

The Bert Van Lingen book is better - but it has a different approach, one that uses more game-like activities and less drills.

The Horst Wein book is much better.

Coaching Soccer for Dummies is also a good read.

I don't recommend The Soccer Coaching Bible if you are looking for drills.

Knack Coaching Youth Soccer is also nice.

The "Street Soccer DVD - An introduction to small sided games" is also great, but again not the drill based approach.

Haven't read the Baffled Parent's Guide yet.

I hope the author won't hate me. This is a decent book, but in my opinion it is not among the great books on coaching soccer.

excellent drills and good examples. I am a third year coach and find this book extremely helpful.

I am a new coach and use this book regulary for ideas for practice for my 9 year old's recreational team. I like how the chapters are divided into separate sections as to type of drill required: Defense, offense, etc. The author provides very simple step by step drills and pictures to help quickly reference the right skill.

My only complaint, not really a complaint but a suggestion - it would be nice to have some more details on building/progressing each drill - i.e. such as adding defenders or progressing a drill into separate activities (if that makes sense).

Bottomline, I recommend this book to any new or recreational soccer coach that wants to add diverse and fun drills to his/her practice!

This book has many great examples of drills and entire practices. I modify many but the book really helps me think of different techniques to try to emphasize different skills.

great, just what I ordered. Great information for coaching,

gave this to my son in law for his soccer team, some good tips.

It is extremely difficult to decipher what the stick figures that are used for all the drills are doing. I spend more time trying to figure those out than I do reading the drill.

I don't read alot of books. I think the last one was in High School, and I'm 30. I was sucked into this book. Once I started reading the book the wheels in my head started turning faster. This book is a breath of fresh air to my coaching career. To an author/coach I owe so much, now I know why you coached. Thank You for opening my eyes and refreshing my memory of the good ol' days. Great Book!

Bobby Benavides

San Antonio, Texas