The Baffled Parent's Guide to Fix-It Drills for Youth Soccer by Koger, Robert;

Short description:

Youth soccer drills organized by skill-set, with a prescriptive focus throughout for improved individual and team play.

Long description:

FUN AND EFFECTIVE SOCCER DRILLS-FROM AN EXPERIENCED COACH IN THE SPORT
Soccer is an exciting sport, but it is even better when your team is playing at its best. The Baffled Parent's Guide to Fix-It Drills for Youth Soccer addresses specific team concerns with energetic drills that will improve your players' skills and help them to properly execute the correct tactics and techniques on the field.

Written by an expert, this extensive collection focuses on problem areas and provides practice activities to ensure you get the best from your young players. Robert Koger looks at each of the problems most commonly faced by youth team coaches and prescribes proper drills to get players and teams to be their best and have fun doing it.

With more than 100 drills, you're guaranteed to find practice solutions for situations such as:

• My players can't get the ball past the other team's defense.
• I can't get my players to shoot when they are open.
• My players move all over the field.
• My team can't stop opposing goals from corner kicks.
• My team needs help with general skills areas including dribbling, passing, offense, defense, and goal-keeping.

Written in an easy-to-follow, clearly outlined format, The Baffled Parent's Guide to Fix-It Drills for Youth Soccer is an invaluable teaching tool to have on the field. Don't start coaching without it.

FUN AND EFFECTIVE SOCCER DRILLS-FROM AN EXPERIENCED COACH IN THE SPORT
Soccer is an exciting sport, but it is even better when your team is playing at its best. The Baffled Parent's Guide to Fix-It Drills for Youth Soccer addresses specific team concerns with energetic drills that will improve your players' skills and help them to properly execute the correct tactics and techniques on the field.

Written by an expert, this extensive collection focuses on problem areas and provides practice activities to ensure you get the best from your young players. Robert Koger looks at each of the problems most commonly faced by youth team coaches and prescribes proper drills to get players and teams to be their best and have fun doing it.

With more than 100 drills, you're guaranteed to find practice solutions for situations such as:

• My players can't get the ball past the other team's defense.
• I can't get my players to shoot when they are open.
• My players move all over the field.
• My team can't stop opposing goals from corner kicks.
• My team needs help with general skills areas including dribbling, passing, offense, defense, and goal-keeping.

Written in an easy-to-follow, clearly outlined format, The Baffled Parent's Guide to Fix-It Drills for Youth Soccer is an invaluable teaching tool to have on the field. Don't start coaching without it.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
1. General Information: Laws, Field
2. Getting Started: Parents, Players,Equipment
3. Assessing Your Players: Initial Assessment, Dribbling, Passing, Shooting,Throw-In, Chip
Drills 3.1 through 3.7
4. Warm Up, Stretch, And Ball Control Drills: Warm Up, Stretches
Drills 4.1 through 4.14
5. Cool Down Drills
Drills 5.1 through 5.6
6. Problems & Solutions
7. Questions & Answers
8. Dribbling Drills
Drills 8.1 through 8.7
9. Passing Drills
Drills 9.1 through 9.10
10. Shooting Drills
Drills 10.1 through 10.7
11. Combination Shooting Drills
Drills 11.1 though 11.17
12. Offense And Defense Drills
Drills 12.1 through 12.23
13. Goal Keeper Drills
Drills 13.1 through 13.10
14. Conditioning Drills
Drills 14.1 through 14.10
15. Position Play, Formations, and Fun
Drills: Diamond, Triangle Position, Position
Play, Formations, Fun Drills
Glossary