Customer Reviews

Advanced Soccer Drills: 69 Drills for Techniques and Tactics

This book is similar in concept to the book "Dutch Soccer Drills Vol.I" by Richard Kentwell, which I also reviewed. The fundamental comments and criticisms that I made in that review about training for soccer by running such rigid patterns apply to this book as well. This book also does not have hardly anything in the way of tips on basic techniques for ball control.

There are several reasons why I give this book a slightly higher rating: First, the diagrams of the drills are more simply laid out and are easier to understand - and so if your soccer training philosophy actually includes running such rigid pattern drills, this book might actually be a useful guide for such training. Second, many of the diagrams simply describe how to lay out a simple "skill" type of drill to practice a particular type of skill, rather than running a complex pattern drill. Third, the book has some interesting comments about how the ODP (Olympic Development Program) selection process is run (at least by Schmidt et al in his region). Fourth, the commentary accompanying each drill is better written and tells you what each drill is actually supposed to teach.