Simple Soccer: 30 Vital Tips to Help Coaches (and Players) Excel
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Simple Soccer offers you 30 vital and easily implemented tips for improving your coaching delivery (if you are a coach) and your own game (if you are a player). You don’t need to spend hours reading through chapters (each chapter is an average of 500 words so you can read one chapter in 5 minutes or so), you can just get straight into the material and start improving your delivery as a coach and start improving your game as a player.
"Football (soccer) is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple." – Bill Shankly (Legendary Liverpool FC Coach)
Bill Shankly could not have put it in terms any simpler. Coaches, players, the media and many other people involved in the game are over complicating analysis, delivery of coaching and actual play on the field more and more nowadays. Why? Playing ‘simple’ actually turns out to be the most effective way of playing the game.
This book is intended to be used as a mini-manual; something you can quickly pick up and get ideas ahead of your next practice or game. You can even use it during practice or games to remind yourself of the simple concepts you should be applying.
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Simple Soccer - Paul J. Spacey
Simple Soccer: 30 Vital Tips to Help Coaches and Players Excel
Paul Spacey
Copyright 2014 by Paul Spacey
No reproduction without permission.
All rights reserved.
Smashwords Edition.
CONTENTS
Introduction
1 - Practice as often as possible.
2 - Practice in small spaces.
3 - Practice anywhere, regardless of the facilities.
4 - Practice in fun, sometimes unstructured environments.
5 - Learn by feel and repetition.
6 - Practice at high intensity.
7 - Record when things go well (and when they don’t).
8 - Don’t hold back. Give everything (even if you look foolish).
9 - Spend long periods practicing just one skill.
10 - Frustration is necessary for improvement; enjoy the struggle.
11 - Watch, listen and learn from top players & coaches.
12 - Correct mistakes immediately before they form into habits.
13 - Focus on improvement over winning.
14 - Work on the small number of most important skills the majority of the time.
15 - Promote positive, attacking soccer.
16 - Have a clear goal in every practice session.
17 - Encourage the use of both feet. It is hugely important.
18 - First touch/control is probably the most important skill you can learn.
19 - Practice with older/better players to speed development.
20 - Stop screaming from the sidelines. It is pointless.
21 - Player communication; why it is so important.
22 - If you keep possession, you can’t lose.
23 - Where can you move to help your teammate?
24 - Keep the ball ‘live’.
25 - Throw the ball to feet. Every single time (almost).
26 - Perfect the basics, the fundamentals.
27 - Don’t hesitate; restart play as quickly as possible.
28 - It is a team game. Contribute and sacrifice for the team.
29 - Formations - they are not that important.
30 - Make every minute of practice count.
About the Author
INTRODUCTION
Football (soccer) is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
– Bill Shankly (Legendary Liverpool FC Coach).
Bill Shankly could not have put it in terms any simpler and I agree with him. I believe that coaches, players, the media and many other people involved in the game are over complicating analysis, delivery of coaching and actual play on the field more and more nowadays. Why? Playing ‘simple’ actually turns out to be the most effective way of playing the game in my opinion.
The ideas and advice contained in the following chapters are straight forward, to the point and will enable you to develop and improve your coaching style to ultimately deliver more beneficial sessions for your players. If you are a player reading this book, the ideas and tips will enable you to deliver better performances on the field.
You might be just starting out as a new soccer coach or player or you may already have been involved in the game for some time; either way, you will be able to take a lot away from this book.
You have 30 vital and easily implemented tips at your disposal. You don’t need to spend hours reading through chapters (each chapter is an average of 500 words so you can read one chapter in five minutes or so), you can just get straight into the material and start improving your delivery as a coach and start improving your game if you are a player.
The great thing about soccer is that you don’t become a great coach or a great player simply as a result of inherited genes. You become great by dedicating yourself to practice and improvement. Make today the first step on your road to being the best coach or player you can possibly be.
This book is intended to be used as a mini-manual; something you can quickly pick up and get ideas ahead of your next practice or game. You can even use it during practice or games to remind yourself of the simple concepts you should be applying.
I am always interested in hearing from coaches and players and getting feedback on the tips provided in this book. Please let me know how you get on by emailing paul@paulspacey.com. You won’t get a standard response from a customer service staff member; you will get a personal response from me.
Enjoy the book!
Paul
This book is dedicated to my girlfriend, Claire, who patiently endured endless late nights while I researched and wrote the material. Thank you for putting up with me!
1 - PRACTICE AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE.
Whether you are a soccer coach or player, the importance of regular practice cannot be underestimated.
The longer the time between practice sessions, the more likely we are to forget what we have learned. Practicing regularly allows the brain to process the skills and information we learn during training and retain that information more effectively. This is exactly the same for coaches; the more often you take team practices, the better you will become at delivering effective sessions.
If you are a coach and only able to practice with your players once or twice a week, that doesn’t mean they can’t practice more often. Encourage your players to practice on their own on days between your practice sessions. Juggling, ball control, dribbling, passing against a wall; there are so many things they can do on their own without the need for anyone else to help them. It is your job as a coach to encourage and convince them that individual practice is worth the effort and they will get their reward as they improve more rapidly than those players who are not prepared