Making the Ball Roll

<p><strong>Making the Ball Roll is the ultimate complete guide to coaching youth soccer.</strong></p><p>This focused and easy-to-understand book details training practices and tactics and goes on to show you how to help young players achieve peak performance through tactical preparation communication psychology and age-specific considerations.</p><p>Each chapter covers in detail a separate aspect of coaching to give you the football coach a broad understanding of youth soccer development. </p><p>Each topic is brought to life by the stories of real coaches working with real players.</p><p>Never before has such a comprehensive guide to coaching soccer been found in the one place. If you are a new coach or just trying to improve your work with players - and looking to invest in your future - this is a must-read book!</p><p>- Analyse how football coaching has dramatically grown and changed over the last decade and help prepare your players for the modern game</p><p>- Understand the age-related development of players: technically tactically and physically</p><p>- Gain an insight into new research around psychology in soccer and the growing effects of social considerations like communication teamwork leadership and rapport</p><p>- Consider age-appropriate methods sessions and curriculum planning used by top coaching programmes</p><p>- Learn the methods of top coaches like Mourinho Guardiola Sir Alex Ferguson and Wenger and apply them to your work with youth players</p><p>- Study the methods of top development academies like Barcelona Liverpool and Atlético Mineiro; and national associations like Germany's DFB Holland's KNVB the English FA and US Soccer</p>