Smart Soccer: How to Use Your Mind to Play Your Best

by Nina Savin Scott

Book Overview

Presents strategies for playing soccer under pressure, dealing with various situations during a game, setting goals, playing with teammates, coping with coaches, and dealing with doubts and fears. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761312943
• ISBN13: 9780761312949
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Millbrook Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.1" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Absolutely Wonderful

Smart Soccer is an insightful pleasure, a well-balanced mix of factual research and a mother's touch. Scott has clearly done her homework, and her question-format presentation is fantastic. A must read for anyone who plays soccer or whose kids play soccer.

smart soccer review

this book was fantastic. it was great for me as a coach so i could be reminded that soccer is a game of decisions and MISTAKES. too often youth coaches focus on the mistakes and the kids don't want to play anymore. I loved it and my 11 year old son did too (it was his book). We bought this book for every kid on both our U11 Boys and U10 girls team. A must!

Highly recommended for all young soccer players.

This set of instructions on playing a good soccer game provides the basics on smart soccer performance, using advice from professional and amateur soccer athletes and coaches to provide examples of how attitude affects sports. A highly recommended pick for aspiring young athletes.

Good reading for serious young sportspeople

"Smart Soccer" is fun and inspiring reading for young sports people. Aspiring soccer players who want to grow into confident atheletes should read it for sound advice from a variety of soccer stars and other professionals of the game. In a nutshell, Scott shows how to put the play back in sport!