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Coaching Soccer Successfully - 2nd Edition (Coaching Successfully Series) [Paperback]

Roy Rees (Author), Cor Van der Meer (Author)
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April 23, 2003 Coaching Successfully Series

In the first edition of Coaching Soccer Successfully, Roy Rees and Cor van der Meer combined nearly 90 years of international experience for the ultimate coaching guide. Now they're back with a brand-new edition offering even more insight on the tactical side of the game.

A former professional player in the English Football League, Roy Rees has more than 40 years of coaching at the youth, college, professional, and World Cup level. Cor van der Meer got his start in the Netherlands on the Dutch National Youth team, and now his career spans a half-century as a coach, player, and administrator. Together, these two veterans of the sport cover every aspect of the game, from tactical instruction to the planning, preparation, and performance evaluations essential for building a stronger team.

Coaching Soccer Successfully is loaded with photographs, diagrams, and tactical options designed to give you the game-winning edge in actual match situations. From offense to defense, Coaching Soccer Successfully offers effective methods for teaching individuals, small groups, and whole squads with drills that make practice fun, interactive, and gamelike.

In addition to diagrams and photographs that highlight successful game play, Coaching Soccer Successfully gives you the tools you need to build a better program, determine your coaching philosophy, and communicate effectively with players and parents. From preparing young players to planning for matches, this book takes you into the trenches for the inside edge.

Whether you teach girls' or boys' soccer at the junior high level or beyond, you'll love the direct, nuts-and-bolts approach to soccer instruction provided in this book. In Coaching Soccer Successfully, Rees and van der Meer share a wealth of knowledge and experience on effective leadership, organization, and evaluation advice. This is an excellent guide to getting the job done, on and off the field.


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""""Rees and van der Meer have produced the best book in 30 years on soccer coaching. A dream book for soccer coaches and players, it's exciting, inspiring, educational, and fun."""
C. Cliff McCrath
Men's head soccer coach
Seattle Pacific University
"""What a team! Roy Rees and Cor van der Meer team up, sharing with you their vast experience and expertise. A great book for coaches who desire to bring out the best in their players, team, and themselves. Don't miss it!"""
Michelle Akers
All-time leading goal scorer
U.S. women's national team
"""The soccer information and coaching philosophy in "Coaching Soccer Successfully" are first class."
Bobby Howe
Former coaching education director
U.S. Soccer Federation
"""An easy read, this book will be a great help to the new coach as well as to the veteran."""
Virgil Lewis
Director of Coaching Education
New Mexico Youth Soccer Association
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""Rees and van der Meer have produced the best book in 30 years on soccer coaching. A dream book for soccer coaches and players, it's exciting, inspiring, educational, and fun.""

C. Cliff McCrath
Men's head soccer coach
Seattle Pacific University

""What a team! Roy Rees and Cor van der Meer team up, sharing with you their vast experience and expertise. A great book for coaches who desire to bring out the best in their players, team, and themselves. Don't miss it!""

Michelle Akers
All-time leading goal scorer
U.S. women's national team

""The soccer information and coaching philosophy in Coaching Soccer Successfully are first class.”

Bobby Howe
Former coaching education director
U.S. Soccer Federation

""An easy read, this book will be a great help to the new coach as well as to the veteran.""

Virgil Lewis
Director of Coaching Education
New Mexico Youth Soccer Association

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Product Details

  • Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Human Kinetics; 2 edition (April 23, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0736046097
  • ISBN-13: 978-0736046091
  • Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #166,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent overview on coaching soccer, July 26, 2000
I coach a youth team (12-18 yrs old). This book gives me a good overview and understanding of what is required in coaching. Two keys to successful coaching: passion and knowledge. A good, motivating coach is one who manages to help his team to overachieve. A negative, critical coach will see his team underachieve. The author's love and respect for his players has transformed my approach to coaching. I have learned that people don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Secondly, this book provides reasonable information on defensive and offensive tactics. I have been playing soccer for over 15 years in various leagues. But it was not until I read this book that I understood the game so much more. I also helps me to appreciate soccer. The defensive habits: covering goalside, inside and support are actually the foundation for attack as well. If you can get your team to play well with the basic defending habits, they will be able to grasp attacking formation and habits as well.

This book is a must read for all beginner and intermediate coach. It gives a great overview of soccer coaching. But you will probably need other resources for more help on more technical help: set pieces, different formation (4-4-2), (4-3-3). This book talks extensively on 3-5-2 formation, which is a direct and very flexible formation actually.

Thanks to Roy Rees for this book! Bravo!

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent at every level, May 21, 2001
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This book is good.

I accidentally bought two copies. I brought one to practice and showed it to a couple coaches whose teams were practicing nearby to see if they'd be interested in buying it from me. They leafed through it, and in seconds were engaged in a friendly but quite serious argument about who would get to buy it from me.

This book is really good.

It has made a huge difference in how I approach coaching. It is at once personable and professional. The scope is very broad, covering technical skills, tactical considerations, and some strategic discussion. Each topic is presented clearly and in startling depth. Every coach or player will learn a lot about the game here.

What is particularly unique and useful about this book is that it discusses in detail how to approach a season -- how to prepare before the season starts, how to engage a team from the first, what sort of considerations are important at what times, how to approach the off season. It focuses not only on the game, but the role of a coach as an influence on a young life.

This book is really, really good!!

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a "must have" for youth soccer coaches (U8-U18), November 5, 1998
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Roy Rees and Cor Van Der Meer have written the best book I've read thus far on the subject of coaching soccer. I've had the book for about 3 years, but I continue to use it as a resource in setting practice objectives, selecting defensive and offensive alignments, developing match strategy, and as an overall guide to improving my soccer program. With the inclusion of real life soccer experiences, both good and bad, I feel as though I've got a personal friend in these author's. They cover it all: how to build a soccer program; managing parents; managing players/disipline; conditioning; teaching skills; teaching tactics; match preparation (including scouting); and, outlining required player attributes for all positions. I assure you, this is money well spent, especially for intermediate level coaches.
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Your success as a soccer coach is totally dependent on the strength of your philosophy. Read the first page
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basic set position, withdrawn striker, player evaluation form, wide midfielders, primary striker, teaching defensive skills, heading player, overlapping player, metabolic training, covering player, space behind the defense, defensive shape, midfield players, conditioned games, challenging defender, challenging player, daily practice plans, offside law, immediate opponent, setup area, coaching points, attacking midfielders, foot farthest, ball possession, wide player
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