Dutch Soccer Secrets

2011-09-29
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Dutch Soccer Secrets

Author: Peter Hyballa

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag

ISBN: 9781841263274

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 244

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Learn how a nation of about 16 million inhabitants can regularly produce world-class players or coaches like Johan Cruyff, Arjen Robben or Dick Advocaat and Louis van Gaal.

Soccer Secrets to Success

2001-12-01
 |  Sports & Recreation
Soccer Secrets to Success

Author: Laureano Ruiz

Publisher: Reedswain Inc.

ISBN: 9781890946708

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 288

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Laureano Ruiz is the guru of Spanish soccer. He has mentored several top professionals, including Ivan de la Pena, Tente Sanchez and Hristo Stoichkov. In this excellent book, he gives his insights into the game and offers his thoughts on what makes a great player. Includes sections on fitness, nutrition, how young players learn and motivation as well as several educational and entertaining anecdotes from this soccer `maestro`, with over 40 years of experience at every level.

Soccer in Mind

2021-11-12
 |  Sports & Recreation
Soccer in Mind

Author: Andrew M. Guest

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

ISBN: 9781978817333

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 158

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From the FIFA World Cup to pick-up games at your local park, soccer is the closest thing in our world to a universal entertainment. Many writers use this global popularity to describe the game’s winners and losers, but what happens when we use social science to explore how soccer intersects with culture, society, and the self? This book provides a thinking fan’s guide to the world’s most popular game, proposing a way of engaging soccer that sparks intellectual curiosity and employs critical consciousness. Using stories and data, along with ideas from sociology, psychology, and across the social sciences, it provides readers with new ways of understanding fanaticism, peak performance, talent development, and more. Drawing on concepts ranging from cognitive bias to globalization, it illuminates meanings of the game for players and fans while investigating impacts on our lives and communities. While it considers soccer cultures across the globe, the book also analyzes what makes U.S. soccer culture special, including its embrace of the women’s game. As a scholar, former minor league player and coach, and fan, Andrew Guest offers a distinctive perspective on soccer in society. Whatever name you call it, and whatever your interest in it, Soccer in Mind will enrich your own view of the one truly global game.

Food Guide for Women's Soccer

2015-06-15
 |  Sports & Recreation
Food Guide for Women's Soccer

Author: Gloria Averbuch

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport

ISBN: 9781782553939

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 256

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This handy "how-to" food guide addresses the nutrition questions and concerns of soccer athletes of all ages and abilities to help them achieve success with energy to spare. Soccer athletes are hungry for good nutrition information. They have lots of food questions: • What should I eat before a game? • What about sports drinks? • How much protein should I be eating? Food Guide for Soccer: Tips & Recipes from the Pros will answer those questions—plus others. This easy-to-read book offers practical tips, debunks nutrition myths, and is a simple "how-to" resource for soccer players, their coaches and parents. The text is sprinkled with quotes from professional soccer players as well as recipes, sample menus, and nutrition sidebars.

Unforgettable Soccer

2019-03-01
 |  Sports & Recreation
Unforgettable Soccer

Author: Luciano Wernicke

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport

ISBN: 9781782554943

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 296

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Unforgettable Soccer is a fun book about soccer. Rather than putting the magnifying glass on great champions and memorable matches, it instead examines the more obscure soccer tales, rescuing incredible feats and masterful mistakes from oblivion—incredible feats such as the soccer player who scored all four goals in a game that ended 2-2. Or crazy stories about a Danish referee who stopped a match to look for the dentures he had lost. The reader will even find a story about a defender who was reprimanded even though he was already dead! Within these pages are entertaining stories that will seem almost too unbelievable to be true. Written in a fun and lighthearted manner, Unforgettable Soccer tells the soccer stories that should be told, making it a must-have for every soccer fan.

Soccer Transition Training

2019-03-01
 |  Sports & Recreation
Soccer Transition Training

Author: Tony Englund

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport

ISBN: 9781782554790

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 312

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The 2018 soccer World Cup highlighted the increasing emphasis on transitional awareness and tactics. From elite domestic leagues worldwide to local youth coaching clinics, there is a pronounced effort to help coaches and players recognize and seize the advantages gleaned through controlling transitional moments during a match. Soccer Transition Training is the first complete study of critical transition moments. This book offers everything coaches at any level need to help their teams dominate in transition, including transition analysis, comprehensive examination of tactical opportunities, 100 exercises to prepare coaches and players for every transitional situation, and coaching instruction. Written by two leading soccer educators, this book is the training tool all soccer coaches need to help their teams dominate on both sides of the ball!

Soccer Goalkeeper Training

2017-07-01
 |  Sports & Recreation
Soccer Goalkeeper Training

Author: Tony Englund

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport

ISBN: 9781782554370

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 296

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In Soccer Goalkeeper Training the authors explain and show through detailed photos and coaching points the physical and technical skills required for novice goalkeepers to improve their current level with easy to follow progressions. Another topic is how to make decisions in tactical situations on the soccer field, for example using communication as a tool for organizing the field player of one's team. The authors also delve into the more advanced and scientific areas of periodization and mental preparation used by the most accomplished goalkeepers in Major League Soccer and the US National Team to achieve ultimate success at the highest levels of the game. Hereby, some psychological aspects covered by the book are the relationship between goalkeepers and their coaches and giving feedback. Also, readers will find a training guide which is divided into exercises by various themes. Whether you are an aspiring young goalkeeper or a more advanced collegiate player, regardless of the level of goalkeeper you currently coach, Soccer Goalkeeper Training will have something to help bring out the best in you and your most important player.

Soccer Dark Arts

2020-05-01
 |  Sports & Recreation
Soccer Dark Arts

Author: William Lai

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport

ISBN: 9781782554912

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 167

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Soccer Dark Arts provides detailed knowledge about crafty, deceitful and outrageous gamesmanship that is unnecessary but sometimes helps teams win matches. From the perspective of an experienced referee, this book outlines 80 soccer tricks, traps and tips used by less sporting players. These 'dark arts' help give ultracompetitive managers and street-smart players an unfair competitive edge that prevents their opponents from performing at their optimal level. Masters of the dark arts know how to bend the rules, to deceive, to con and ultimately to negatively affect their opponents. This book highlights the ugly, unpleasant and unsporting aspects of the Beautiful Game so that you won't be deceived by them. Whether you are a player, coach, match official, fan, commentator, journalist or club director, this book is your defence against the dark arts!

Why Is Soccer Played Eleven Against Eleven?

2018-05-01
 |  Sports & Recreation
Why Is Soccer Played Eleven Against Eleven?

Author: Luciano Wernicke

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport

ISBN: 9781782554721

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 240

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Why Is Soccer Played Eleven Against Eleven? reveals one hundred facts of soccer history and rules that are either unknown or little known, such as why soccer is played eleven against eleven, why soccer matches last 90 minutes, who the first coach was, how the referee appeared, and who invented goal nets, red and yellow cards, the penalty, and the penalty shoot-out. Included in this book are funny and weird anecdotes, such as the case of a player who scored a goal...without ever having stepped on the pitch...making this book the complete resource on the beautiful game of soccer. Millions of soccer fans will find all the answers to any question they could possibly have—including those they may not have thought of—in this amusing, yet informative, book by journalist Luciano Wernicke.

The Real Giants of Soccer Coaching

2018-04-01
 |  Sports & Recreation
The Real Giants of Soccer Coaching

Author: Josh Faga

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport

ISBN: 9781782554493

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 381

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The Real Giants of Soccer Coaching is a collection of the curated thoughts of nearly 30 top soccer coaches from around the globe. In this book, you will gain access to the depth and breadth of experience from some of the best coaches across all areas of the beautiful game: from grassroots to premier leagues and everything in between. You will learn theoretical details about tactical periodization, positional play, and the science of motor learning. You will also learn from Youth National Team coaches, NCAA National Championship winning coaches, and First Division coaches from top European clubs. This book is a resource that can direct your coaching education over and around the perilous pitfalls that often consume most coaches. After reading this book, you will have gained the experience, knowledge, and wisdom of some of the best coaches across all areas of the game. You don't have to go your coaching path alone. Take this book and bring the wisdom of these top coaches with you to help navigate every corner, turn, and hazard along your way to becoming a great coach.

Why American Soccer Isn't There Yet

2014-12-15
 |  Sports & Recreation
Why American Soccer Isn't There Yet

Author: Shane Stay

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport

ISBN: 9781782553595

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 168

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Why American Soccer Isn't There Yet analyzes the methods of Brazil, Spain, Holland?where the author has lived and played?and other similar nations, establishing a ground for a new vision in the approach to American soccer. The purpose is to establish a new insight into contemporary American soccer and restore faith in ground level observation of what works in a competitive team sport. The majority of American soccer players have athletic talent, the raw physical ability, and often the technical ability, however they have been fed the wrong mental information from their elders, including parents, extended family, and coaches. In turn, the coaches have been fed the wrong information from their respective elders. This book lays out what the core problem is, how to break it down, and fix it for the future of American soccer, which has the potential to become a prominent world power.

A League Of Their Own

2017-04-01
 |  Sports & Recreation
A League Of Their Own

Author: Steffen Siebert

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport

ISBN: 9781782554349

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 160

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How champions win and how they can be beaten. A League of Their Own provides readers with a closer look at the FIFA Club World Champions, such as FC Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Manchester City. Readers will catch a glimpse into the history of these clubs while also learning about the individual philosophies of some of the top coaches. This book discusses different tactical philosophies as well as how these tactical approaches have been adjusted by some of soccer's greatest coaches, such as Pep Guardiola, José Mourinho, Luis Enrique, and Louis van Gaal. Finally, readers will be taken through case studies of each individual team with a step-by-step analysis of how these tactical setups are successful and how they can be exploited. Each case study will provide a discussion of how each team sets up when in attack, defending, and in transition. Not only addressing how and why these tactical setups are powerful, this book also breaks down and specifies just how lesser teams can exploit the subtle weaknesses by adjusting their attacking, defending, and transition strategies. Winning the tactical battle on the pitch creates endless possibilities, and perhaps evens the playing field to continue intrigue of the game.