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Soccer Coaching Tips From Professional Soccer Coaches

Are you looking for effective and time-tested soccer coaching tips to take your team to the next level? Does it bother you that your team is not taking the drills seriously, or that your plans are not working?

Here are 5 unbeatable tips that can never go wrong and are guaranteed to enhance your team’s performance.

1. Design your procedures meticulously: Ensure that your plans are in tandem with your objectives or they will fail miserably. Make your kids aware of your plans for the team, take what they have to offer in terms of advice and move on from there. Getting everyone involved is a good thing. Results not achieved within the designated timelines can derail your progress. There should always be scope for improvements, big or small. You never know what will happen on the field on account of unexpected events. So to ensure continuous success, ensure spontaneity and consistency in your plans.

2. Ensure that the drills are enjoyable: Monotony can quickly set in if there is lack of variety in different activities in the training schedule and as a coach, this is your biggest nightmare. There are several interesting methods to sustain the interest of the kids. After the training, you can take them out on an excursion, initiate a group discussion (not necessarily on soccer), and encourage them to intermingle with each other and so on. This will help them unwind and feel good about these sessions.

3. Be a friend as well as a guide: The game of soccer demands total dedication and sincerity and achieving this can be a little tricky with kids. So ensure discipline at all levels and that it is never compromised. Don’t underestimate the power of these soccer coaching tips.
It is a great idea to leave a few minutes/hours out of regular sessions where the players can hang out and discover things on their own. It is also a good idea to take them out for camping or any other excursion for a day.

4. Be encouraging and caring: A good coach not only motivates the kids to be adventurous but is also caring to the extent that when things do not work out, he is there to sympathize. Keep the group under your watchful eye and lend a helping hand when things do not work out the way as expected. However, note that it may prove counter-productive to scold the players for errors. Your success as a coach is measured by how well the kids are able to execute new ideas or recover from failures. That is the yardstick of your performance.

5. The balancing act: Training fields and sessions are the best places to recognize and acknowledge talent. It is natural that in a team, there are some great players, some average, while others simply poor. As a coach, it is your duty to use your best players to motivate and inspire the others. The primary objective of any coach must be to keep the flock together so that there is perfect harmony and unison between all the players irrespective of their abilities. Never make irrational judgments that seem partial and one-sided.

Kids learn quickly but their mind is tender and can therefore drift easily. That is what makes youth coaching a little complicated. After all, it is not easy to motivate people to deliver under extreme pressure. These soccer coaching tips do exactly that, help you develop a great chemistry between you and your players while at the same time helping them deliver results. Your coaching potential will reach its pinnacle with these tips. But you must ensure that this learning continues and the best way to do that is by joining our youth soccer community where you will meet people who are passionate about the game and live by its principles.

About The Author

Andre Botelho is a recognized expert in youth soccer coaching. He’s the creator of the “Ultimate Soccer Drills System” and influences well over 35,000 youth coaches each year with his unique coaching style. To download your free soccer coaching guide visit: http://www.soccerdrillstips.com – Youth Soccer Coaching Drills.

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If You’re Second You Are Nothing: Ferguson and Shankly $15.95 Bill Shankly was one of ten children from an Ayrshire mining village. Alex Ferguson was a shipyard worker’s son who went on to become a toolmaker’s shop steward. Both of them enjoyed distinguished but not outstanding playing careers. Both of them raged against the might of the rich in their early managerial days, and both of course will be remembered as two of the mightiest figures in the history of the English game. There is a rich seam that links the epic lives of Shankly and Ferguson, running between their enemy soccer strongholds in Liverpool and Manchester. It goes deeper than the myriad achievements of both men—three league titles for Shankly, eight championships and a European Cup for Ferguson. What binds them is their long love affairs with soccer, which were so consuming that a tragic form of rejection was almost inevitable. Shankly felt betrayed by the club he had built from the ground up in the 1960s, and when he died from a heart attack in 1981 the deep rift between him and Liverpool had not been healed. Equally, with Malcolm Glazer’s takeover, Ferguson looks more and more like a man out of his time, a man whose once absolute authority over his players may be slipping. In this riveting dual biography Oliver Holt takes two of soccer’s undisputed greats and shows what made both men tick. In part a celebration of two driven, charismatic and hard-nosed characters, If You’re Second You Are Nothing is also a poignant evocation of men not knowing how to let go of the game to which they have given so much.

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My Ex Best Friend: A Novel of Suburbia $11.99 Journalist, wife, and mother of three, Claire Newman juggles work, soccer games, birthday parties, and errands. A successful writer at Nationweek, America’s second largest newsweekly, she makes her living by being, as she says, “a relentless snoop,” but she never was able to figure out why her best friend of twenty-three years, Lydia Finelli, dropped out of her life with no explanation. Claire hasn’t seen Lydia in five years, and her unresolved hurt and anger still linger, brought to the surface by a chance encounter at the local bakery. When Lydia calls Claire and asks for her help, urging her to come discuss the situation in person, Claire figures it is one of “life’s rare opportunities to tie up a loose end.”But when Claire arrives at Lydia’s house, she finds her ex-best friend dead. While all the obvious signs point to suicide, Claire can’t shake the feeling there’s something very wrong. The irrepressible, feisty Claire starts investigating, and soon the list of suspects includes Lydia’s neurologist husband, her psychiatrist neighbor, and even her son’s handsome soccer coach. As Claire uncovers the secrets of her friend’s past, and their relationship, the puzzle becomes even more complicated, and she finds that she really didn’t know Lydia very well at all.But knowledge comes with a price, and as Claire unravels the mystery of Lydia’s death, she puts herself — and the people she loves — in harm’s way. Smart and funny, with razor-sharp storytelling, My Ex-Best Friend is the debut of a fresh new voice in contemporary fiction.

Neil Lennon: Man and Bhoy $9.99 Captain and midfield enforcer for Northern Ireland, Neil Lennon is one of the most controversial figures in British soccer. His story, fully updated for the Celtic 2006–2007 season is an extraordinary tale of religious bigotry, life-threatening career injury, and tumultuous football success at club level. The first Northern Irish Roman Catholic to play for Celtic and to be chosen to captain his country, Lennon was sensationally forced to quit the captaincy even before he took the field following death threats by Loyalist paramilitaries. As he approaches the twilight of his playing career, Lennon has decided the time is right to reveal all about his life on the field—including his horrific spinal injury and his less than happy apprenticeships at Motherwell and Manchester City—as well as his hitherto closely guarded private life, including his battle with depression.

Neil Lennon: Man and Bhoy $12.27 Captain and midfield enforcer for Northern Ireland, Neil Lennon is one of the most controversial figures in British soccer. His story, fully updated for the Celtic 2006–2007 season is an extraordinary tale of religious bigotry, life-threatening career injury, and tumultuous football success at club level. The first Northern Irish Roman Catholic to play for Celtic and to be chosen to captain his country, Lennon was sensationally forced to quit the captaincy even before he took the field following death threats by Loyalist paramilitaries. As he approaches the twilight of his playing career, Lennon has decided the time is right to reveal all about his life on the field—including his horrific spinal injury and his less than happy apprenticeships at Motherwell and Manchester City—as well as his hitherto closely guarded private life, including his battle with depression.

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Red Men: Liverpool Football Club The Biography $8.86 In researching the first book to cover the complete history of Liverpool FC using a linear narrative, the author was given access to the club’s original minute books John Williams explores the origins and divisive politics of soccer in the city of Liverpool and profiles the key men behind the emergence of the club and its early successes in this unique and exhaustively researched history of Liverpool Football Club. The figures of the club featured here include the first great Liverpool manager, Tom Watson, who piloted the club to its first league championships in 1901 and 1906 before taking the club to the FA Cup final in 1914; Elisha Scott, the darling of the Kop in the 1920s; and, of course, Bill Shankly, who won that elusive first FA Cup in 1965. The recent tragedies that have shaped the club’s contemporary identity are covered, as are the new Continental influences at Liverpool, and, of course, the glory of Istanbul in 2005. This is the definitive history of a remarkable club from its formation in 1892 to the present day, told in the wider context of the social and cultural development of the city of Liverpool and its people. Containing a wealth of rarely published photographs from every era of the club’s history, this book is sure to appeal to the club’s global fanbase.

Seeing Red $9.99 A Premier League and international referee with 26 years of combined experience, Graham Poll handled some of the toughest games in soccer history—in total more than 1,500 matches—before his retirement in 2007. In this brilliant, no-holds-barred autobiography, Poll reveals what really goes on between the players in the tunnel before a match and in the dressing room after, and unveils the true nature behind the nicest and the nastiest figures in the game. Poll also shares private conversations with the likes of Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, Sepp Blatter, and Steve McClaren, and the inside story behind controversial incidents involving Roy Keane, David Beckham, Patrick Vieira, and current England captain John Terry, among others. The infamous 2006 World Cup match—during which he failed to send off a Croatian player after he earned three yellow cards—that brought Poll home early in disgrace and nearly ruined his career is covered as well. Honest and eye-opening, this is a gripping behind the scenes look from one of the beautiful game’s most noted figures.

Seeing Red $1.99 A Premier League and international referee with 26 years of combined experience, Graham Poll handled some of the toughest games in soccer history—in total more than 1,500 matches—before his retirement in 2007. In this brilliant, no-holds-barred autobiography, Poll reveals what really goes on between the players in the tunnel before a match and in the dressing room after, and unveils the true nature behind the nicest and the nastiest figures in the game. Poll also shares private conversations with the likes of Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, Sepp Blatter, and Steve McClaren, and the inside story behind controversial incidents involving Roy Keane, David Beckham, Patrick Vieira, and current England captain John Terry, among others. The infamous 2006 World Cup match—during which he failed to send off a Croatian player after he earned three yellow cards—that brought Poll home early in disgrace and nearly ruined his career is covered as well. Honest and eye-opening, this is a gripping behind the scenes look from one of the beautiful game’s most noted figures.

Seeing Red $1.99 A Premier League and international referee with 26 years of combined experience, Graham Poll handled some of the toughest games in soccer history—in total more than 1,500 matches—before his retirement in 2007. In this brilliant, no-holds-barred autobiography, Poll reveals what really goes on between the players in the tunnel before a match and in the dressing room after, and unveils the true nature behind the nicest and the nastiest figures in the game. Poll also shares private conversations with the likes of Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, Sepp Blatter, and Steve McClaren, and the inside story behind controversial incidents involving Roy Keane, David Beckham, Patrick Vieira, and current England captain John Terry, among others. The infamous 2006 World Cup match—during which he failed to send off a Croatian player after he earned three yellow cards—that brought Poll home early in disgrace and nearly ruined his career is covered as well. Honest and eye-opening, this is a gripping behind the scenes look from one of the beautiful game’s most noted figures.

Swing!: A Scanimation Picture Book $12.95 Published last fall, Gallop! introduced the amazing technology called Scanimation and took the children’s book world by storm. It became an instant bestseller—#1 on The New York Times children’s list. Now Swing! does for kids what Gallop! does for animals—a boy rides a bike, a girl kicks her soccer ball, a swimmer cuts through the water, and a skater pirouettes on ice. The effect is joyous, magical, mesmerizing, and taps into the the endless fascination that children find in watching other children. The second book created by Rufus Butler Seder, the inventor, artist, and filmmaker who developed Scanimation out of his obsession with antique optical toys and other pre-motion-picture illusions, Swing! uses "persistence of vision" and a patented state-of-the-art multiphase animation process to create astonishment. There is nothing else like this unique, patented technology that literally inspires wonder. The images burst with activity, and adding greatly is a happy, rhyming text that captures in words the pure energy of the figures in motion. You can’t put it down.

The Complete Encyclopedia of Soccer $11.99 The Complete Encyclopedia of Soccer is the ideal guide and reference work for the most popular sport in the world. There are sections on the origins and history of soccer, the most famous names around the world, the great games and leading figures, facts and statistics, plus comprehensive AZs of the legendary players, teams and managers as well as the Legends of the Game. This is the book that tells you everything you need to know about the worlds most popular and dynamic sport.

The Kickin’ Hoosiers: Jerry Yeagley and Championship Soccer at Indiana $19.95 Chronicles 41 years of successful men’s soccer seasons at Indiana University under Coach Jerry Yeagley, Packed with photos, memories, facts, and figures, The Kickin’ Hoosiers celebrates a winning tradition at Indiana University. “. . . great and needed. Indiana soccer is such a class program and can be a model for any college sport.” –Brian Maisonneuve

Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup $0.99 The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup features original pieces by thirty-two leading writers and journalists about the thirty-two nations that have qualified for the world’s greatest sporting event. In addition to all the essential information any fan needs—the complete 2006 match schedule, results from past tournaments, facts and figures about the nations, players, teams, and referees—here are essays that shine a whole new light on soccer and the world. Former Foreign Minister of Mexico Jorge G. Castañeda invites George W. Bush to watch a game. Novelist Robert Coover remembers soccer in Spain after the death of General Francisco Franco. Dave Eggers on America, and the gym teachers who kept it free from communism. Time magazine’s Tokyo bureau chief Jim Frederick shows how soccer is displacing baseball in Japan. Novelist Aleksandar Hemon proves, once and for all, that sex and soccer do not mix. Novelist John Lanchester describes the indescribable: the beauty of Brazilian soccer. The New Yorker’s Cressida Leyshon on Trinidad and Tobago, 750-1 underdogs. Fever Pitch author Nick Hornby on the conflicting call of club and country. Plus an afterword by Franklin Foer on the form of government most likely to win the World Cup.

Turkish Football Chairmen and Investors: Ahmet Ertegun, Nesuhi Ertegun, Ilhan Cavcav, ?enes Erzik, Adnan Polat $8.69 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ahmet Ertegun (Turkish: ; July 31 1923 December 14, 2006), aka Nugetre, was the Turkish American founder and president of Atlantic Records and chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum, described as “one of the most significant figures in the modern recording industry.” He also co-founded the New York Cosmos soccer team of the North American Soccer League. Born in Istanbul, Ahmet and his family, including elder brother Nesuhi, moved to Washington, D.C. in 1935, with their father, Münir Ertegün, who served as the first Ambassador of the then-young Republic of Turkey to the United States of America. His last name, Ertegün, means “living in a hopeful future” in Turkish. Ahmet’s older brother Nesuhi introduced him to jazz music, taking him to see the Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway orchestras in London at the age of nine. At the age of fourteen his mother bought him a record-cutting machine which he used to compose and add lyrics to instrumental records. The brothers also frequented Milt Gablers Commodore Record Store, assembled a large collection of over 15,000 jazz and blues 78s, and became acquainted with musicians such as Ellington, Lena Horne and Jelly Roll Morton. Ahmet and Nesuhi staged concerts by Lester Young, Sidney Bechet and other jazz giants, often at the Jewish Community Center, which was the only place that would allow a mixed audience and mixed band. They also traveled to New Orleans and to Harlem to listen to music and develop a keen awareness of developing musical tastes. In 1944 Munir Ertegün died, and in 1946 President Truman ordered the battleship USS Missouri to return the deceased to Turkey as a demonstration of friendship between US and Turkey. This act also served as a show of support to counter the Soviet U…

Turkish Immigrants To The United States $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sibel Edmonds, Ahmet Ertegun, Edip Yuksel, Arif Mardin, Nesuhi Ertegun, K. Aslihan Yener, Tolga Katas, Tunch Ilkin, Erol Onaran, Cenk Uygur, Gregory Vlastos, Merve Kavakçi, Filiz Odabas-Geldiay, Oz Bengur. Excerpt: Ahmet Ertegun Ahmet Ertegun (Turkish : Ahmet Ertegün ; July 31 1923 December 14, 2006), aka Nugetre , was the Turkish American founder and president of Atlantic Records and chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum, described as “one of the most significant figures in the modern recording industry”. He also co-founded the New York Cosmos soccer team of the North American Soccer League . Background Born in Istanbul , Ahmet and his family, including elder brother Nesuhi , moved to Washington, D.C. in 1935, with their father, Münir Ertegün , who served as the first Ambassador of the then-young Republic of Turkey to the United States of America. His last name, Ertegün, means “living in a hopeful future” in Turkish . Ahmet’s older brother Nesuhi introduced him to jazz music, taking him to see the Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway orchestras in London at the age of nine. At the age of fourteen his mother bought him a record-cutting machine which he used to compose and add lyrics to instrumental records. The brothers also frequented Milt Gabler s Commodore Record Store, assembled a large collection of over 15,000 jazz and blues 78s, and became acquainted with musicians such as Ellington, Lena Horne and Jelly Roll Morton . Ahmet and Nesuhi staged concerts by Lester Young , Sidney Bechet and other jazz giants, often at the Jewish Community Center, which was the only place that would allow a mixed audience and mixed band. They also traveled to New Orleans and to Harlem to listen to music and develop a keen awareness of developing