10 complete practice plans on single pages and 80 drills in each book. Just print and go to practice.
If you want to know more about this product, please CLICK HERE.
About Our Soccer Practice Plans And Soccer Drills Books
The Concept
The idea for Print & Go Practices came from the recognition that something was missing for soccer coaches amongst all the training materials and resources available.
Most soccer coaching books or sources on the internet might have 100 soccer drills but leave it to you to figure out how to put them into a smooth running,
entertaining and effective soccer practice. We've done that work for you and ensured these soccer practices work by
testing the drills and sessions with real teams.
What about the next soccer practice? What about a season plan? What about the team’s needs and focus? Fitness training: yes or no? During soccer practice or separate sessions? Scrimmages? Speed and mental training? Where are the soccer specific drills for that? How about flexibility? Any difference between age groups?
You will find these questions answered comprehensively only in our soccer practice and soccer drills books.
A coach must have a practice plan when going to run a soccer practice.
There is also a tool to develop hundreds of additional soccer practice sessions using combinations of the soccer drills provided. All you need to do is to decide on a focus for the season and a theme for each practice.
The printed material is supplemented by pictures of soccer specific stretches and soccer moves and by the soccer tips published on our web site
www.soccerpracticebooks.com
The Product
What you get are soccer e-books that have 70 pages.
We have a book for kids soccer (4-9) and youth soccer (10-13), both ideally suited for rookie coaches.
Our competitive book is suited for experienced coaches and coaching in a competitive environment.
Our indoor soccer book is for those who need to practice inside during inclement weather and incorporates soccer skills as well as fun and fitness into the drills and practice sessions.
Each soccer practice book has 10 completely worked out practice plans with 80 drills, each following the sequence of warm-up, technical (skill) drill, fitness drill, tactical drill and scrimmage. There are instructions as to how you might want to sequence the practices based on your season and team need. Then each of the soccer drills for each of the practices is on its own page that fits on a clipboard and has room for notes. The point for having each drill on a separate page is a tool for you to be able to create your own practice sessions from the 50 drill pages (80 soccer drills) available. So if you wanted to run a practice involving more passing, use drills with passing themes. If you wanted to sequence warm-up-technical-technical-tactical-scrimmage, put those together, etc. To help you, there is a summary page outlining the main focus of each of the soccer.
Examples of soccer drills found in the books:
passing, receiving, ball control drills, header drills, 1v1 attacking drills, odd-man attacking, odd-man defending, fast break, flank attack, shooting drills, change of direction drills, dribbling, anticipation drills, soccer speed, reaction drills, overlap passing, cut-backs, passing-shooting combination drills, dribbling-shooting combination drills
soccer agility drills, defending more than one soccer goal, running drills, pass-turn-pass, pass-turn-shoot, faking defenders, transition play drills, 1 v 1 to 8 v 8 scrimmages
To view content of our soccer books, follow the following links:
Kids Soccer Coaching Book
Youth Foundation Soccer Coaching Book
Competitive Soccer Coaching Book
Indoor Soccer Coaching
For your soccer coaching library, we offer a selection of 300 of the best soccer drills worldwide:
click here for 300 soccer drills
We also offer free soccer drills and soccer tips to sample at:
Soccer practices need to be fun for players and coaches. Soccer drills must be interesting and vary across soccer skills, tactics, strategies, mental and physical fitness and team building.
Soccer players need to be busy with a ball at all times to maximize the number of touches they get with the ball.
Check a soccer drill
technical drill
Soccer practices must flow and time must not be wasted by the coach setting up or thinking about drills.
Check a soccer practice
practice plan
Soccer practices and soccer drills must have a purpose.
All our soccer drills are designed to be conducted on ½ field, but most can be expanded to full field if space is available. This would be particularly true for full field scrimmages.
About Our Soccer Systems of Play Book
The idea for this book quite frankly came from feedback we received from our website, www.soccerpracticebooks.com. Coaches sent us e-mails asking questions as basic as:
" I have never coached full field; how do I line up my team?" or "I am playing a 3-5-2 and am concerned about my defense; any advice?"
So we did some research in the libraries and on the web to see why coaches were coming to us with these questions. What we found was astonishing. There were either very in-depth resources such as entire books or videos on one system, such as a 4-4-2, or videos and books on zonal play. At the other end, we found very superficial information on systems of play.
What was missing was a single source of information that covered current systems of play and gave some basic information about them. Nor was there much information for coaches on what the team requirements are, what the coaching requirements are and how to adapt strategies based on game situations and the opponents.
So we set out to define the most common systems of play for full field soccer (11v11), and small-sided soccer (indoor 6v6 and outdoor 8v8). Each system and its variations are explained on a single page and a second page shows the basic line-up, typical defensive, transitional and attacking situations, including positions and development of plays.
This book is not meant to treat each system in great depth. Rather it is designed to give the coach a tool firstly to decide which system to pick for the team and then provide enough information to get started and adapt.
The practices and drills in our Print & Go Practice Books available at www.soccerpracticebooks.com are adaptable to practice for any system.
Our Philosophy
Choosing a system of play and game strategy is the most important and often the first decision a coach must make for the team. There are two main philosophies:
The coach insists on a particular system and recruits players who fit that system, or trains available players to conform.
The coach evaluates the players and their talent, the opposition, and then picks a system that is best suited for the team available.
Both philosophies are valid. What is important is to recognize the particular situation and choose the appropriate philosophy. For example, in situations with a short pre-season and little or no recruiting, philosophy # 2 is more appropriate. On the other hand, with a long pre-season and the ability to recruit prior to training camp, philosophy # 1 is appropriate.
Book Design
Each system has an introduction page that provides an overview of the system, which could be historical, philosophical, psychological or strategic in its nature.
It then describes the team requirements to play the particular system, discussing players' skill, physical fitness and mental preparation demands.
We provide coaching requirements to give an understanding of what to expect and how to go about developing the team.
Finally, we briefly discuss game strategy, strengths and vulnerabilities and how to respond to opponents in some key situations.
The second page of each system has four diagrams with accompanying instructions.
The first diagram shows a picture of the basic line up and describes responsibilities of each player.
The second, third and fourth diagrams show positional plays for defending, transitioning and attacking. Player movement and tactics are indicated.
What's Next?
Our next soccer coaching book we are developing is winning strategies for the underdog.
We will give soccer coaches the best ways of winning soccer games when playing against superior teams. These soccer coaching strategies are proven in real leagues with real soccer teams.
