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Manchester United - Play Like Champions

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The official Manchester United Training and Skills Programme

Menacing in midfield? Deadly in defence? A stunning striker? Now comes the unique opportunity to hone your soccer skills in the style of true champions. BBC Worldwide are proud to announce the release of, in association with Manchester United Football Club, the first official Manchester United training and skills video.

Introduced and linked by Sir Alex Ferguson and Academy Coach Rene Meulensteen, Play Like Champions offers fans, and aspiring football players alike, the chance to see inspirational key skills coaching sessions featuring a range of the club's best players including Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and many more.

Play Like Champions features over 100 minutes of specially recorded footage filmed on location at Old Trafford, The Manchester United Training Facility in Carrington and during the club's tour of America. Alongside key skills segments such as Free Kicks, The Scissors and The Step Over, Premier League footage is analysed with multi-angles and slow-mo to see the skills in match winning action.

The players, coaching staff and past footballing legends (including Sir Bobby Charlton) are also interviewed to give a further insight into the magic of Manchester Utd. With nutritional and fitness advice, as well as how to handle the legendary mind games of football, Play Like Champions is the ultimate guide to making it in the big league.

The DVD features a golden boot of extras with thirty minutes of extra footage, including two additional skills, outtakes, biographies, a photo gallery, history of Man Utd and a link to the official Man Utd website.

Excellent DVD to teach multiple skills and techniques. This could be one of the best instructional DVD's on the market for youth soccer players. There is a lot of Manchester United propaganda in the production but I found it quite interesting and would recommend this to anyone with kids who play soccer.

The production of this DVD absolutely sparkles. I have a 6 and a 10 year old, and they have watched this video, and learned many of the moves. They are pretty good! They film the steps that you take for the moves from beneath the player, through a plexiglass floor! They also show pro players using these moves in a game. It's also a bonus that one of the most prolific goal scorers in the English Premier League, Ruud Von Nistlerooy, is showing several of the moves along with some very talented 10 year old soccer players. It's also surprizing how many Manchester United players shown in this DVD have also scored goals for their respective countries in the FIFA World Cup. In short, why not learn some terrific moves going from basic to advanced from some of the best players in the world? There is not a better instructional DVD.

great instruction and cool features where you can loop the diagrams. If you love manchester united even better.
my only negatives keeping from five stars.

--wish the goaltending section was better

My son loves Man Utd, ..so this was a great DVD for him to enjoy. Neat tricks by members of ManUtd, and cool moves. I recommend it for kids who loves anything on Man Utd, and wants to get better on soccer skills.

Great demonstrations and selection of foot skills. Clear instruction and usable/teachable techniques without being cute or boring.

WOW!!! Here's how to take your kids (and yourself) to the next level for skills development. No more poorly constructed videos or diagrams - these are very professionally produced so that you understand every move. There's also good dialogue with the pros and trainers about how to really finesse these moves on the pitch.

We purchased this DVD based on a recommendation, for use as a training aid for my 10 yr old. It demonstrates a number of age appropriate soccer skills in a nice format that is useful for learning, and that is also enjoyable to watch. At times the European accents and terminology used by some of the speakers / players may be difficult to understand and follow.

If you are looking for soccer skills to teach or learn, avoid this (like the plague) and try "All The Right Moves - To Beat and Get Past Your Opponent" (there's a Hollywood movie called "All The Right Moves" which is (obviously) different). That DVD covers a lot of juking moves from various angles. Fortunately I got this Man U DVD out of the library so I could return it. I presume someone as disgusted with it as I gave it to them.

If, on the other hand, you are a dedicated Man U fan this is for you. Of the 2 hours, about 5 minutes are devoted to teaching any skills at all. The rest of it is Man U players and staff talking, or just standing there for you to admire.

The 4 skills taught are "step over" "Cruyff" "Maradonna" (they call it something else) and "pull-back" Those are taught well in a little section of extras where they show it in several ways.

No kicking skills taught though you get to watch a Man U player kick a ball around some metal 'defenders'. No insight into how he does it - what a waste.

I basically bought this DVD because I'm a ManUtd fan. Yet, it was very interesting to learn some cool skills from the ManUtd players themselves. Good DVD for kids or amateurs who wanna learn how to beat others in one-on-one situations.