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Teaching Soccer
Fundamentals Book (Copyright 1998, 184 pages)
As a soccer coach,
you need to know how to teach basic skills and run
solid practices. Teaching Soccer Fundamentals explains
how to maximize young athletes' learning of essential
techniques and tactics through fun and efficient
practice sessions. Including helpful photographs
and illustrations as well as instructions that are
easy to understand and apply, this book shares more
than 30 years of soccer coaching experience. Author
Nelson McAvoy offers tips for maintaining kids'
short attention span and methods for boosting participation,
including short-sided games. Teaching Soccer Fundamentals
will make next season a more rewarding experience
for you and your players. About the Author Nelson
McAvoy retired as a head scientist at NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center and is now involved in what
truly brings him joy-helping kids enjoy the game
of soccer. The director of the Potomac Highlands
Soccer Club, McAvoy has coached youth soccer in
widely different locations, including Eastern Europe,
Puerto Rico, and in Washington D.C. He is certified
as an AYSO coaching instructor and a Scottish Football
Association youth and club coach. He has also held
a USSF B license for 25 years and holds an advanced
national diploma from the National Soccer Coaches'
Association of America. McAvoy lives in Keyser,
West Virginia. When not coaching soccer or administering
soccer events, he enjoys equestrian jumping and
driving sports cars. Table of Contents Chapter 1:
Learning Concepts Chapter 2: Lesson Plans Chapter
3: Kicking Chapter 4: Receiving Chapter 5: Dribbling
Chapter 6: Heading Chapter 7: Goal keeping Chapter
8: Tactics Chapter 9: Sportsmanship and Laws of
the Game Words of Praise This book will help coaches
develop a good foundation and basic coaching methodology.
I recommend it for coaches of adolescent players.
Jeff Tipping Director of Coaching, National Soccer
Coaches' Association of America McAvoy expresses
ideas which are of value to both the novice coach
and experienced coach at the highest level. Richard
Broad President, American Soccer Program Director,
Middle States Soccer Camps Head Soccer Coach, Woodson
High School, Fairfax, VA
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