Attacking Soccer [Paperback]

Joseph Luxbacher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 10, 1999

Put your opponents on their heels and the ball in goal! Use the strategies, plays, skills, and drills of Attacking Soccer to develop a high-powered offensive team that will take your club, high school, or college league by storm. The expert contributing coaches cover the following:

- Playing out of the thirds
- Possession soccer
- Changing points of attack
- Quick counterattacks and transitions
- Flank attacks
- Offensive patterns of play
- Restart plays
- Individual skill development

Editor Joe Luxbacher, head coach at the University of Pittsburgh, has assembled many of the game's top offensive-minded coaches including Dave Sarachan of D.C. United, Jay Hoffman of the U.S. Women's National Team, former Tampa Bay Mutiny coach John Kowalski, and college coaches Dean Foti of Syracuse, Sam Koch of Massachusetts, and Dave Masur of St. John's. Each coach explains and illustrates a specific aspect of developing an attacking offense, helping you develop and implement the tactics, skills, and drills that are needed to maximize scoring opportunities.

Editorial Reviews

Review

""This book contains a lot of expertise on important phases of tactical soccer that need to be coached. Joe Luxbacher has put together an important coaching tool for all ambitious coaches who want their teams to play sound tactical soccer.""
Al Miller
Cleveland Crunch General Manager
1994 and 1996 NPSL Championship (General Manager)
1973 NASL Championship (Coach)
""This is a helpful addition to any coach's library. The topic it examines is of utmost importance, and Dr. Luxbacher's contributors make some excellent points.""
Jeff Tipping
Director of Coaching
National Soccer Coaches Association of America
""Many soccer coaching and tactics books do not give the level of depth needed for developing good tactical awareness for players aged 12 to 18. I have found that your books are excellent; specifically, I have used" Attacking Soccer" to develop training session plans with great success from the under-sixes through the under-fourteens.""
Darren K. Rogers
AYSO Region 335 Assistant Commissioner & Referee Administrator
Morristown, TN

Review

"This book contains a lot of expertise on important phases of tactical soccer that need to be coached. Joe Luxbacher has put together an important coaching tool for all ambitious coaches who want their teams to play sound tactical soccer."
Al Miller
Cleveland Crunch General Manager
1994 and 1996 NPSL Championship (General Manager)
1973 NASL Championship (Coach)

"This is a helpful addition to any coach's library. The topic it examines is of utmost importance, and Dr. Luxbacher's contributors make some excellent points."
Jeff Tipping
Director of Coaching
National Soccer Coaches Association of America

"Many soccer coaching and tactics books do not give the level of depth needed for developing good tactical awareness for players aged 12 to 18. I have found that your books are excellent; specifically, I have used Attacking Soccer to develop training session plans with great success from the under-sixes through the under-fourteens."
Darren K. Rogers
AYSO Region 335 Assistant Commissioner & Referee Administrator
Morristown, TN

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics (August 10, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736001239
• ISBN-13: 978-0736001236
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #872,144 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #89 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Coaching > Soccer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Attacking Soccer, June 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Attacking Soccer (Paperback)

Tired of soccer books that are full of drills to improve a players individual skills but lacking any ideas for game tactics? This book is a good mixture of strategies, tactics and related drills. Each chapter is by a different author that discuss various tactics and then presents several drills to reinforce the tactic. Tactics include "Playing Out of the Defending Third", "Creating Opportunities in the Attacking Third"' "Possession Soccer". Fourteen chapters in all, each with a different theme. A must book for the serious coach of age levels 12 and above.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Youth Soccer Coach, May 24, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Attacking Soccer (Paperback)

This volume has some nice concepts to improve soccer tactics, but is nothing spectacular. A rather light read, containing limited examples of the various general tactics discussed. Many of the drills presented are contained in other books which offer more indepth discussion.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great drills to work on specific concepts, November 14, 2005

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South Manitou "Ron" (St Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Attacking Soccer (Paperback)

This book offers 150 tactical and skill-specifc drills that any coach will benefit from. The chapters are broken into attacking concepts such as "Attacking the Flanks" and "Changing the Point of Attack" with a great table of contents/drill finder. While the concepts themselves are not discussed in-depth, the exhaustive and clearly-explained volume of drills more than makes up for the limited examination of attacking soccer. Each drill has simple instructions and large, easy-to-read diagrams. The bottom line is that there are lots of drills in this book that will make your team better. Luxbacher is a drill genius, and most of the names in the book are well-recognized in the coaching community.