Making the Ball Roll is the ultimate complete guide to coaching youth soccer. 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. Each chapter covers, in detail, a separate aspect of coaching to give you, the football coach, a broad understanding of youth soccer development. Each topic is brought to life by the stories of real coaches working with real players. 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! – Analyse how football coaching has dramatically grown and changed over the last decade, and help prepare your players for the modern game – Understand the age-related development of technically, tactically and physically – Gain an insight into new research around psychology in soccer and the growing effects of social considerations like communication, teamwork, leadership, and rapport – Consider age-appropriate methods, sessions, and curriculum planning, used by top coaching programmes – Learn the methods of top coaches like Mourinho, Guardiola, Sir Alex Ferguson and Wenger and apply them to your work with youth players About the Author. Ray Power is one of the bestselling soccer authors in the world. With over a decade of experience working in soccer and education, coaching players from non-league to Premier League levels, and internationally, he is the author of the and “Deliberate Soccer Practice and ” series, and “Making The Ball A Complete Guide to Youth Football for the Aspiring Soccer Coach and “, and its 2020 and “Coaching Youth What Soccer Coaches Can Learn From The Professional Game and “. As a coach developer and educator, Ray has worked for, and consulted with, numerous national FAs, as well as governing bodies from other sports, including the NBA. He also works as a consultant – mentor – educator on a freelance basis, working with grassroots coaches all the way to professional teams.

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