Customer Reviews

Playing Better Soccer is More Fun: A complete guide to the small-sided games coaching model

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This book is a must have for anyone that coaches soccer. As a coach that work with younger kids I always wonder why it was so hard to get kids at practice to focus, after reading this book and giving the young charges the opportunity to do what they came to do,which is PLAY, that all changed. The results shows on the pitch and they all leave with a smile! Now I use small sided games in all my training.

I agree with the other reviewers when it comes to the editing. It could have been much better. The content of the book however is excellent. I've moved from coaching recreational soccer to club soccer and this book is an excellent resource for coaches. I would recommend this book and the DVD "Street Soccer: An Introduction to Small-Sided Games" to any coach, new or experienced. Both references are packed with useful information that would benefit anyone coaching youth soccer. The only reason it is not 5 stars is because of the poor editing.

I don't know if I have an early edition or this a vanity press book or what, but the grammar mistakes in this book are appalling. The author not only doesn't know the difference between "than" and "then" but has their usage completely backwards. The book has a lot of good material but it is a painful read. If you can get past the poor grammar, it is a useful book that has a lot of good material for coaching soccer. There is a lot on tactics and strategy as well as suggested drills. Hopefully the books available now have been edited and you don't have to deal with the bad grammar.

This is an excellant book on coaching soccer. Highly recomend this book if you are open to ideas on how to get the best development for your players. Please make this book available at amazon.co.uk

Caveat: The Table of Contents, p. 9, does not indicate the page numbers on which chapters begin. Nor do the caption titles at the head of each chapter necessarily match those given in the Table of Contents. Running titles are not present, nor is there an index. In short, finding your way around within the text is problematic. And the caption "Forward" on p. 7 should properly be "Foreword"--an increasingly common error in publications. These remarks are no reflection on the quality of the work, but production and editing are substandard.