Provides step-by-step instructions on how to perform soccer techniques, improve basic skills, and enhance fitness.

If a young athlete is serious about soccer, then he or she needs to practice the necessary skills. Top coaches base their training programs on a number of crucial techniques that help make good players into great players. This book shares and delves into these cutting-edge professional techniques and gives readers all the information they need to develop their talent and get all the essential soccer skills under their belts. From running with the ball to passing, from shooting to goalkeeping, all the skills young players need to be effective and successful are included here. It's like having one-on-one access to your own coach at all times. With tips on choosing the right equipment, an introduction to the game, and hundreds of detailed step-by-step images, readers will find everything they need to start training more effectively right away. The author, Ian Howe, is a fully qualified coach in England's Football Association. He specializes in the coaching of children aged 5-16. He co-founded the successful Palace Soccer School in the early 1990s, a school that has forged close links with many top soccer league clubs throughout the southeast of England.

A guide to the basic skills, tactics, and rules of soccer as well as information about diet, training, equipment and more.

Essential Soccer Skills progresses from beginner basics to advanced techniques, featuring illustrated sequences on how to learn and master key skills, and tips on how to improve your overall form. Essential Soccer Skills covers everything from the basics and rules of the game to the types of players--goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, attackers--to skills and team tactics like stepovers, heading, and volleying. Essential Soccer Skills is the go-to guide for anyone interested in learning more about soccer and becoming a better player.

Soccer coaching.

101 Great Youth Soccer Drills is an exhaustive collection of the very best drills available, providing a solid foundation for you to build your players' skills. Filled with simple step-by-step instructions and diagrams, plus a sample practice program, this encyclopedia of drills provides you with solid skill-building fundamentals as well as the advanced techniques you need to get your players in top form.

Have you dreamed about scoring from the halfway line, bending a free kick past a wall of defenders, assisting in the perfect goal, or leading your team to the biggest soccer tournament in the world? David Beckham has fulfilled his ambition to give something back to soccer and to his fans across the globe. Thanks to The David Beckham Academy, aspiring young soccer players now have the opportunity to realize their dreams. This unique book features Beckham sharing his knowledge of the game, his skills developed from playing for the best clubs in the world, his experiences as England's captain, and his life in Madrid-all captured as never before. Book jacket.