- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall (June 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0131392883
- ISBN-13: 978-0131392885
- Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 21 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 726 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #927,282 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Former professional soccer coach Mike Ditchfield and one-time college Coach-of-the-Year Walter Bahr now team up to bring you all the ready-to-use help you need to build a winning soccer program from the ground up. You can use this sequentially arranged coaching system to teach the most advanced and powerful plays and patterns even to inexperienced players... increase each player's ball-control skills, accuracy, reaction time, and confidence... and keep practice sessions both enjoyable and productive while laying the groundwork for a successful, winning program!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent for a beginning or intermediate coach,
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This review is from: Coaching Soccer the Progressive Way (Paperback)
This book is a great stepping stone for a beginning coach to advance to next level. It explains soccer tactics in a succinct logical fashion and demonstrates how the coach can teach these tactics to his/her players through drills that graduate in difficulty. There are also excellent sections on soccer technique which are taught in the same fashion as tactics. This book will enhance the coach and his players' enyoyment of the sport by focusing in on what's important. Other books that I highly recommend include Coaching Soccer Successfully (this book is more advanced) and Soccer Skills and Strategies (more basic). These three books tend to complement each other very well and should make worthy additions to any soccer coach's library.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent for a beginning or intermediate coach,
By Peter C. Byrne - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Coaching Soccer the Progressive Way (Paperback)
This book is a great stepping stone for a beginning coach to advance to next level. It explains soccer tactics in a succinct logical fashion and demonstrates how the coach can teach these tactics to his/her players through drills that graduate in difficulty. There are also excellent sections on soccer technique which are taught in the same fashion as tactics. This book will enhance the coach and his players' enyoyment of the sport by focusing in on what's important. Other books that I highly recommend include Coaching Soccer Successfully (this book is more advanced) and Soccer Skills and Strategies (more basic). These three books tend to complement each other very well and should make worthy additions to any soccer coach's library.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not for Beginners,
By W. COX "Bill" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Coaching Soccer the Progressive Way (Paperback)
This was a good book, especially in that it organizes all of soccer around the concept of where the ball is, with 1st attacker, 1st defender, 2nd attacker, and so on radiating out. Gives the coach an overall unifying concept for his coaching, instead of bouncing between dribbling, passing, receiving, and shooting as separate skills with nothing connecting them.The weakness in this book is not the theory but the execution. Many of the drills in this book are way too advanced, at least for U12s (which I coach). Trying to explain to them the intricate rules they have to follow to work through each drill quickly became a waste of time. I still use the concepts and the terminology from this book, but I try to apply it during SSGs and scrimmages when I introduce some coaching points. Overall, good for intermediate coaches as an interesting system of coaching soccer, not good for beginners or coaches of young kids. And if you're looking for good drills/exercises, you'll need to go elsewhere. |
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