The Everything Kids' Soccer Book: Rules, Techniques, and More About Your Favorite Sport! (Everything Kids Series) (Paperback)

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Product Description

Are you among the millions of kids who live to play soccer? If you are, you'll love The Everything Kids' Soccer Book! Inside this exciting book, you'll find out how to excel at this hugely popular sport, with professional instruction on:
The complete rules of the game
Techniques for dribbling, trapping, and heading the ball
The arts of defense and goaltending
Winning techniques and drills
Tips on how to maintain possession of the ball

Soccer player and coach Deborah W. Crisfield gives you lots of advice on stretching, endurance building, and strength training. Along the way, she includes some amazing facts on the World Cup and American soccer stars, such as Landon Donovan and Mia Hamm, and offers dozens of puzzles and games. The Everything Kids' Soccer Book is definitely a GOAL!

About the Author

Deborah W. Crisfield is a soccer coach and author of Winning Soccer for Girls and The Mom's Guide to Sports. She played soccer in high school, college, and currently plays in a woman's league. She lives in New Jersey.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580626424
• ISBN-13: 978-1580626422
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #250,833 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great for the beginning soccer player, February 23, 2005

By	Luitgard M. K. Holzleg (Switzerland and United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a great book for the beginning soccer player, so let that be around seven years old. My son was able to read by himself at that age and loved the games and the information he found in the book.
Children older than that as stated on the back cover will not profit from the information found in this book.

33 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK for Beginners, November 17, 2004

By	Terry A. Simpson (Naples, Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I will keep this brief because I mostly want to warn people that while this book is stated to be suitable for ages 9-12 that pre-supposes that the readers are beginner soccer players.

My nine year old son, who has played soccer for a few years laughed at the simplicity and found the book not at all useful. This was of course disappointing to me. I relied on the rating, made an assumption that I should not have made and had the book sent to him without having read it.

In summary, a good book for BEGINNERS aged 9-12. Live and learn!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a GREAT way to kick-off a love of SOCCER. , January 23, 2006

By	Kevin J. Loria (New Orleans, LA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Attention soccer kids and soccer moms!

Deborah W. Crisfield, author of "Winning Soccer for Girls" and "The Mom's Guide to Sports," has produced this challenging, educational book great for young soccer-players-to-be. This softback included professional instruction on the: RULES of the GAME, TECHNIQUES for DRIBBLING, TRAPPING, and HEADING the BALL, defense, GOALTENDING, DRILLS, TIP on maintaining POSSESSION of the BALL. The book also includes loads of PUZZLES and GAMES to play that relate nicely to DRILLS provided.

The book is easy to read for juvenile readers (8-10 yrs) full of fun graphics, tips, terms and soccer fun facts, and World Cup and American soccer star bios. The Everything Kids' Soccer Book even includes soccer jokes, like:

"Why won't CINDERELLA ever be a great goalkeeper?

BECAUSE she runs away from the BALL