The Baffled Parent's Guide to Great Soccer Drills

Front Cover
McGraw Hill Professional, 2002 - Sports & Recreation - 144 pages

A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

A games-based alternative to tedious rote exercises, guaranteed to keep practices fun, engaging, and productive

Great Soccer Drills provides soccer coaches with a great way to make every soccer practice active, fun, and productive. Coaches get 125 games guaranteed to keep kids moving and excited while teaching them basic skills, sharpening their reflexes, and building their confidence and decision-making ability. Written by two of North America's foremost names in youth soccer coaching, it also includes guidelines on how to create just the right blend of drills to hold the attention of six- to twelve-year-old players.

Great Soccer Drills can be used in conjunction with the bestselling Coaching Youth Soccer: A Baffled Parent's Guide or as an excellent stand-alone resource for spicing up any practice.

From inside the book

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Organizing Practices
12
Ballnastic WarmUp Activities
35
Copyright

5 other sections not shown

Other editions - View all

The Baffled Parent's Guide to Great Soccer Drills
Ronald W. Quinn,Thomas Fleck
Snippet view - 2002
The Baffled Parent's Guide to Great Soccer Drills
Ronald W. Quinn,Thomas Fleck
Snippet view - 2002

Common terms and phrases

20 minutes Ages 30 seconds ACTIVITIES Chapter 5/Maze ACTIVITIES Chapter 6/Target ACTIVITIES MAZE GAMES Activities TARGET GAMES air balls Baffled Parent's Guide ball per pair ball per player BALLNASTIC WARM-UP ACTIVITIES BODY AWARENESS GAMES bounce challenge Chapter 2/Organizing Practices Chapter 4/Body Awareness Chapter 5/Maze Games Chapter 6/Target Games cones or flags cones to mark Cooldown Ball Stretching create defending team develop the ability encourage players end line feet flags or cones flags to mark frozen player Games and Activities goalkeepers grid half field hands interval Ages jump kick legs Main Activities moving Number of Players offensive player Pac-Man pairs Equipment parents partner pass the ball penalty box Philadelphia Fury play the ball player development players dribble players each Equipment pool noodle receive the ball score shooting skills small-sided game Tag game Tag Purpose team A players team unity teammate triangle Try activities USYSA Variation Water break 2-3 XAVIER

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Baffled Parent's Guide to Great Soccer Drills
Baffled Parent's Guides
AuthorsTom Fleck, Thomas Fleck, Ronald W. Quinn
Editionillustrated
PublisherMcGraw Hill Professional, 2002
ISBN007138488X, 9780071384889
Length144 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Sports & Recreation / Children's & Youth Sports
Sports & Recreation / Coaching / Soccer
Sports & Recreation / General
Sports & Recreation / Outdoor Skills
Sports & Recreation / Soccer
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan