Coaching Youth Soccer: The Guide for Coaches and Parents [Paperback]

John P Mccarthy Jr (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 14, 2007

The Guide for a Fun and Successful Soccer Season!

Do you need some guidance before you start coaching this soccer season? Coaching Youth Soccer, 2nd edition gives you everything you need to make this season a success. It covers all of soccer's fundamentals and gives coaching tips for every aspect of the game, including:

• proper kicking, passing, and trapping techniques
• dribbling, juggling, and headers
• the responsibilities of each position on the field
• defensive and offensive strategies
• rules and regulations for standard and small-sided games
• maintaining an encouraging and positive coaching attitude

You'll also find template practice plans you can adjust for your own use, step-by-step drills and plays, conditioning ideas, and first aid information. Plus, a glossary and skills checklist at the end of the book help you learn and teach the language and skills of soccer quickly and effectively.

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About the Author

John P. McCarthy, Jr. has been coaching his children and grandchildren on the field and in the backyard for many years. He has also written three other successful coaching books: Coaching Youth Basketball, Coaching Youth Baseball, and Coaching Youth Football.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Betterway Books; 2 edition (March 14, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558707948
• ISBN-13: 978-1558707948
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,782,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Coaching Youth Soccer: The Guide for Coaches, Parents and Athletes, June 26, 2007

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Tracey "Max's Soccer Mom" (Bethlehem, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coaching Youth Soccer: The Guide for Coaches and Parents (Paperback)

You can really tell McCarthy has experience in coaching the sport as well as a keen understanding of the needs of young athletes and their parents. I found this book to be instrumental in guiding my son as a parent not only through a better grasp of the sport's strategies and rules but also simple drills to increase his ability to handle the ball and play well. The plethora of player-model pictures to further help us "see" what good athletic positioning looks like, is just good direction on his part. Some of us learn by seeing! As a parent or coach, of course knowing more about the sport can only help build a child's skills which increases their motivation to be better at the sport and want to play more. However, McCarthy also brings in some aspects of the psychological desires of player and parents from his experiences and covers what works and what doesn't relative to the emotional aspects in order to even further guide us to love and respect the sport. A very well rounded book and worth the economical price!