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Italian Academy Training Sessions for U15-19
A Complete Soccer Coaching Program from the Italian Serie ‘A’
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Soccer Italian Style coaches Mirko Mazzantini (AFC Fiorentina) and Simone Bombardieri (Empoli FC) are both soccer professional coaches and in this book provide a full football training program from their top Italian Serie 'A' academies. This book contains 12 complete soccer training sessions detailing...
by Noel Dempsey
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
In recent times, it has become clear that many aspects of traditional youth football coaching and development need to change. In an ever-changing world, driven by progress in education, societal shifts, the internet and social media, and reduced contact time with actual footballs - coaches need to...
Long Distance Love
A Passion for Football
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Grant Farred is a lifelong soccer fan. He has been rooting for one team -- Liverpool (England) Football Club -- since he was a child. Long Distance Love explains how "football" opened up the world to a young boy growing up disenfranchised in apartheid South Africa. For Farred, being...
by Gary B. France
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
It is said that you don't choose your team—your team chooses you. On April 5, 1975 Manchester United Football Club chooses a young football fanatic growing up on England's North West coast. On this day Gary B. France becomes "United."
Twenty years later, Gary relocates to the United...
Soccer Drills
A 100 Soccer Drills to Improve Your Skills, Strategies and Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Are you ready to take your soccer game to the next level? Or just looking for ways to improve your team?
This book can help solve your problems.
Whether known as football or, as in the US, soccer; the 'beautiful game' is the most popular sport in the world. The best players earn millions...
Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain
An Ethnography of Basque Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Spanish soccer is on top of the world, at international and club level, with the best teams and a seemingly endless supply of exciting and stylish players. While the Spanish economy struggles, its soccer flourishes, deeply embedded throughout Spanish social and cultural life. But the relationship...
Soccer Skills
Improve Your Team’s Possession and Passing Skills through Top Class Drills
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Are you ready to take your soccer game to the next level? Or just looking for ways to improve your team?
This book can help solve your problems.
Whether known as football or, as in the US, soccer; the 'beautiful game' is the most popular sport in the world. The best players earn millions...
The New Coach's Guide to Coaching Youth Soccer
A Complete Reference for Coaching Young Players Ages 4 through 8
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Expert advice to make youth soccer more fun for players, parents and coaches.
Robert Koger coached youth soccer for over twenty-five years. For the thousands of new coaches taking over teams every year, the advice he offers will make their lives easier and their teams better. Koger covers everything...
Mapping The Pitch
Football Formations Through The Ages
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mapping the Pitch is an entertaining exploration of the history and evolution of soccer formations from the Victorian age to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The author analyzes the thinking behind the popular formations and shows how the thinking behind the game influenced the evolution of soccer tactics....
Soccer vs. the State
Tackling Football and Radical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Citing the professionalism and commercialization that dominate the multibillion-dollar soccer industry, this fascinating study also describes the game's rebellious side-from its working-class roots and political protests from fans and players to the current resurgence within radical communities. Documenting...
The Science of Training - Soccer
A Scientific Approach to Developing Strength, Speed and Endurance
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
Physical training is a key part of preparing to play soccer (football) at any level, but organising a genuinely effective training programme requires both an understanding the physiological principles involved and a practical knowledge of the demands of the game.
This book provides clear guidelines,...
Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation
Kicking off a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
This is the first in-depth global study of women's football across the world. This collection considers women's football, in fifteen countries worldwide, in a global context, and analyzes its progress, challenges and problems it has faced.
It shows how women's football has made a significant...
Why Soccer Matters
A Look at More Than Sixty Years of International Soccer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“I know in my heart that soccer was good to me, and great to the world....I saw, time and again, how the sport improved countless millions of lives, both on and off the field. For me, at least, that’s why soccer matters.”
The world’s most popular sport goes by many names—soccer, football,...
by Daniel Silva
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Soccer was an essential part of the Brees family society. Drew's grandpa, Ray Akins, was a fabulous high school coach in the Lone Star State. His mother's brother, Marty Akins, was the start quarterback for the University of Texas throughout the Earl Campbell age. Both of those tasks appeared respectable...