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What's
the Book?
Thoughtful Soccer: the Think First Approach to Playing
and Coaching, by Russ Carrington
(Spring
City, Pa.: Reedswain Publishing, 2002)
What's
With the Book Cover?
Stan
Waling illustrated the fables that introduce each chapter. For
the book's front cover, he assembled fable characters into a soccer
team. Check out Stan's cartoons at his Dithered
Twits web site.
What's
the Book About? It
provides a detailed, step-by-step plan for developing youth soccer
players. It explains the different parts of soccer and what they
should look like. And it provides competitive, entertaining practice
games that bring those parts to life.
What's
Different About It? Thoughtful
Soccer offers these exciting features:
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Learn-by-doing
skill games
mean more fun for the players, less stress for the coach.
- Clever
scrimmages mean
goodbye Bunch Ball, hello thought.
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What
Are Readers Saying?
"Thoughtful
Soccer is a how-to manual that has a flow to it missing in most
books on coaching youth soccer
. . . Even experienced coaches of select or high school programs
should give this book a read, simply because it presents information
in a strikingly different way."
-Tim
Brown (read complete review).
"This
book will be of great value to the U8 coach and above (a lot of
the ideas will also pertain to the younger age groups) . . . One
of the best parts of the book is his ideas for how to run scrimmages
involving certain specialized rules that immediately correct thoughtless
soccer (e.g. aimless booting)."
-Alexandria Soccer Association
Who
Should Read It? Since it's advanced stuff made simple, Thoughtful
Soccer has something for everyone:
- New
coaches get up and running quickly
- Experienced
coaches find useful practice activities and theories
- New
players are drawn in by the fractured fables
- Experienced
players find new ways to think about their sport
- Soccer
parents gain insight into what they're watching
Where
Can I Find It?
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