Coaching Youth Soccer: The Guide for Coaches, Parents and Athletes

by John P. McCarthy Jr.

Book Overview

Anyone interested in coaching youth soccer will find all they need in this text. It offers advice on how to promote positive athletic competition while effectively teaching kids sports fundamentals. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558707948
• ISBN13: 9781558707948
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Betterway Books
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Coaching Youth Soccer: The Guide for Coaches, Parents and Athletes

You can really tell McCarthy has experience in coaching the sport as well as a keen understanding of the needs of young athletes and their parents. I found this book to be instrumental in guiding my son as a parent not only through a better grasp of the sport's strategies and rules but also simple drills to increase his ability to handle the ball and play well. The plethora of player-model pictures to further help us "see" what good athletic positioning looks like, is just good direction on his part. Some of us learn by seeing! As a parent or coach, of course knowing more about the sport can only help build a child's skills which increases their motivation to be better at the sport and want to play more. However, McCarthy also brings in some aspects of the psychological desires of player and parents from his experiences and covers what works and what doesn't relative to the emotional aspects in order to even further guide us to love and respect the sport. A very well rounded book and worth the economical price!