Soccer category: 2494 books

In 'Strength Training for Footballers' ex-professional footballer and renowned strength coach Paul Webb distils over 20 years of knowledge into a book designed to train soccer players to become stronger, faster, more explosive, and more resistant to injury.The method Paul uses is...

Sports Science and Soccer offers a series of contemporary insights into the multidisciplinary approach to delivering sports science support (physiology, psychology, performance analysis, sociology) from leading academics and practitioners in elite level professional football. Each chapter includes...

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! What goal caused the most legendary celebration in soccer history? Who invented the bicycle kick? Who was the first player to score 1,000 goals? Get the full story on scoring goals in...

Once nobody noticed Santa Rosa's Thunder. They were a ragtag team of girls who wanted to play soccer, and no one took them seriously. Their male coach expected little from his "ladies, " and their mediocre performance convinced them he was right. Then a kind of miracle happened. Emiria...

Round 17 of My thoughts concerning the beautiful game or anything else I am thinking about from one week to the next, in audio or text.  I end in a chant for a player or players from the national womens soccer league match I saw in a given week or round. The issues are: portland thorns vs houston...

WARNING: This is not a goalkeeping book. From the best-selling author of Soccer iQ comes a book dedicated to teaching and organizing a back four. Coach Dan Blank led the Southeastern Conference's best defense at two different universities in consecutive years. It began with a handbook he created...

Did you enjoy the World Cup? Have you tuned in to the game played by more people than any other game on earth? Do you have some children or grandchildren who would love to have you coach them? Then you will want to get started with my book, "How To Coach Youth Soccer"! Based on my fifteen years of...

More than three million children between the ages of six and eighteen played for organized youth soccer teams in the United States last year. By far, most of them played in the novice and beginning divisions. Teams need coaches to guide them, particularly in those levels. With an average of two coaches...

On Level Terms gives readers an inside look at 10 legal battles in the United States and Europe that have had a lasting influence on the game as we know it today. From the demise of the North American Soccer League and the rise of Major League Soccer in the United States to the prosecution of England...

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. Food Guide for Women's Soccer offers practical tips, debunks nutrition myths and is a simple how-to resource for soccer players, their coaches and parents.

Jasmine and her friends start a soccer team called The Caterpillars. When they begin to feel as though they will never win a game, they become inspired by some of the greatest soccer players in the world! Readers will be motivated as they follow the journey of The Caterpillars and see if they can...

A ball can start a revolution. Born in Kabul, Awista Ayub escaped with her family to Connecticut in 1981, when she was two years old, but her connection to her heritage remained strong. An athlete her whole life, she was inspired to start the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange after September 11,...

Right out of college, Abby Wambach shot to fame in the United States soccer scene. In 2002, she was picked second in the Women's United Soccer Association draft by the Washington Freedom. She also became a leading scorer on the US Women's National Team. After winning the 2012 FIFA Women's World Player...

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...