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Summary: Simply the best and greatest soccer coaching manual!
Review: I have played soccer for many years and this book would enable many coaches and players to better understand each others roles so much better. This level of understanding takes many years to develope. This book could really help to simplify that process. This book takes sun tzu's principles and applies them to soccer.In the business and martial arts communities,it has always been said that these principles are applicable to all times and places where people compete against each other.Thus this interpretation can be made applicable to basketball, hockey ,etc - ALL SPORTS.
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Summary: Excellent Book on soccer theory
Review: If you are coaching soccer and know the basics and you are ready to take your team to the next level this is the book to take you there. It is very informative and gives coach's a real understanding of the changes a team must make to get to the highest level of competitiveness.
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Summary: For higher level soccer
Review: If you are coaching soccer and know the basics and you are ready to take your team to the next level this is the book to take you there. It is very informative and gives coach's a real understanding of the changes a team must make to get to the highest level of competitiveness.
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Summary: Buy this book before it goes out of print
Review: If you are involved with a team which has the basics of feinting, dribbling, and passing, then this book will take you to the next level of understanding of how and why positioning should work. As the author points out early, 10 minutes after a game starts you can't tell whether the team is using a 5-3-2 or a 3-4-3 because the game is really about space and how to set up spaces, manipulate it, and work into it. Really a great understanding of the game as it is played and not as a bunch of X's and O's. You MUST read this book if you coach or play U-12 or above.
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Summary: Buy this book before it goes out of print
Review: If you are involved with a team which has the basics of feinting, dribbling, and passing, then this book will take you to the next level of understanding of how and why positioning should work. As the author points out early, 10 minutes after a game starts you can't tell whether the team is using a 5-3-2 or a 3-4-3 because the game is really about space and how to set up spaces, manipulate it, and work into it. Really a great understanding of the game as it is played and not as a bunch of X's and O's. You MUST read this book if you coach or play U-12 or above.
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Summary: Outstanding Book covering why specific tactics are used.
Review: Most soccer books describe soccer skills and tactics in either a "how-to" or "what it is" presentation. This book covers the reasoning behind specific tactics. This book explains why specific strategies and tactics work. This book is a must have for any coach or player.
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Summary: Insightful, but unfocused and overlong
Review: There are some good insights in this book (and some really nice pictures). However, I was put off by the author's tone, which is pedantic and mildly condescending, and I was unimpressed by his grocery-list application of the insights to the game. The Sun Tzu quotes were appropriate but gratuitous, and the author does not apply the simplicity which has made "Art of War" such a classic. Where "The Art of War" is about fifty pages (including third-party commentary), "The Art of Soccer" is about four times that length.Brevity would have greatly improved this book. The real insights (primarily regarding the importance of using space in effective soccer) were covered fully in the first chapter or two; the details in the later part are covered more eloquently and carefully in other works (see "Coaching Soccer Successfully," by Roy Rees et al ... For an intermediate coach or player this book could be quite helpful, but I suggest skimming rather than reading it.
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Summary: Outstanding Book covering why specific tactics are used.
Review: This book is one of the few books I've seen on just tactics of soccer. It provides some good insight as to how to teach the individual to analyse a 1v1 situation, and a coach how to prepare a team. It is extremely well organized like a text book.
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Summary: Excellent book on just tactics for teams and individuals
Review: This book is one of the few books I've seen on just tactics of soccer. It provides some good insight as to how to teach the individual to analyse a 1v1 situation, and a coach how to prepare a team. It is extremely well organized like a text book.
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Summary: Excellent Book on soccer theory
Review: This is an excellent book that helps develop a greater appreciation and understanding of the tactics and strategies that underly the "beautiful" game. The main thrust of the book is the idea of space and how to create use and deny it. There are excellent illustrations and diagrams showing exactly how this is accomplished. This is superb book packed with insight and great value. The best soccer coaching book I've read 5+ stars.
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