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.

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

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

From passing the ball to scoring a goal, soccer is fun! Learn the basics of the sport while building reading skills with these supportive texts.

GOOOOOOOOAL!! This Step 1 introduction to practically every child's first team sport is a win for emergent readers. No hands--just feet. The game starts. Tweet! Young soccer enthusiasts will build their reading confidence as they learn about basic skills and the thrill of scoring a goal in Terry Pierce's rhythmic, rhyming Step 1 Reader. As she did in Jack and Jill and T-Ball Bill and Tae Kwon Do!, Pierce captures the excitement of sports while scaffolding reading with alliteration and word families. Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story.

Sam's cousin from Mexico comes for an extended visit and teaches Sam and all the second-graders to play soccer. A Level 4 Step Into Reading title

The challenge of developing young players is the most significant task facing coaches around the world and particularly in the United States. Concept Soccer presents a logical sequence of tactical steps that opens defenses and creates excellent scoring chances.Training for Concept Soccer develops technical ball skills as well as the mental ability to quickly see situations and make effective decisions. Youth players exposed and trained in Concept Soccer become vastly improved players who understand how to keep possession and beat defenses. Coach Alan Goldstein (nicknamed The Soccer Yoda many years ago) has laid out an offensive soccer system, usable with any formation, that can replicate the type of soccer played by the best teams in the world,even if those playing the system are juniors. By describing the methods and reasons for Concept Soccer's ideas, he also helps casual fans to raise their level of understanding of the moves they see on the professional fields around the world. Concept Soccer is for anyone wishing to grow their knowledge of the game.