Solo Soccer: A Self-Teaching Soccer Guide for Players, Parents, and Coaches

By Greg Bowman

SOLO SOCCER

A Self-Teaching Soccer Guide for Players,
Parents, and Coaches

This guide is designed to help young players practice soccer on their own.
Footwork/Dribbling, Ball Control/Receiving, Passing, Shooting, and Soccer Fitness
are all discussed and broken down into simple activities that players and parents
can easily understand! Don't forget to HAVE FUN!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 20, 2013
• ISBN: 9781479770748

Greg Bowman

During the past three decades, Greg has served globally in building group ministries as a strategist, trainer, and consultant (most recently with the Willow Creek Association) and has served locally as Group Life Pastor for four churches. Greg and his wife Connie live in Elgin, Illinois, where he is on staff with West Ridge Community Church as the Pastor of Spiritual Formation. He is co-author of Coaching Life-Changing Small Group Leaders and Equipping Life-Changing Leaders.

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SOLO SOCCER

A Self-Teaching Soccer Guide for Players,

Parents, and Coaches

This guide is designed to help young players practice soccer on their own.

Footwork/Dribbling, Ball Control/Receiving, Passing, Shooting, and Soccer Fitness

are all discussed and broken down into simple activities that players and parents

can easily understand! Don’t forget to have fun!

About the Author

Recognized as a successful youth player in Louisville, Kentucky, Greg continued playing at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. He became a leader of the soccer program as a captain and earned the school’s highest honor in sports, Male Athlete of the Year, in 1994. Greg graduated with a degree in biology and a minor in chemistry and art.

Greg continued playing after college at a semiprofessional level while teaching marine biology. Beginning in 1998, he became the assistant coach of Wheaton College and coached club soccer in Boston. After two years, Greg earned his B-license with the USSF and his advanced national diploma with the NSCAA and became the assistant coach of the University of Cincinnati, where he was able to help develop professional soccer players as well as future college and professional coaches. While in the Cincinnati area, Greg directed camps and became deeply involved in the soccer community as a youth trainer and director at the club level.

In 2009, Greg became the assistant coach at Thomas More College. For the next three years, Thomas More had their most successful seasons, winning three conference titles and making three NCAA tournament appearances. Greg has personally experienced the dedication and sacrifice it takes to become a successful player and shares his insight through his coaching. He has written and illustrated Solo Soccer to provide a helpful tool that can be used by players while practicing on their own. He lives with his supportive wife, Sarah, and daughter, Caroline.

Contents

Getting Started

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5 

Jack Hermans—Former Head Coach of Xavier University

Dutch Full Badge and USSF A-license

Youth coach, trainer, and camp director for over thirty years.

Fabulous! This book is original and can be used to help players of all youth levels.

Bob Ramsey—Former MISL professional player

Director of the Louisville Soccer Club

Current Head Coach of Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky.

If you want to get better at soccer, you have to get outside, on your own, and put in the time it takes to become better. The activities in this book are great examples how to improve technically on your own.

Paulete Rumpke—Former woman professional player

Soccer Hall of Fame-University of Cincinnati

Elite Soccer trainer for over fifteen years, and a mother of two.

Solo Soccer is a simple yet highly energetic guide that can be used by all youth coaches, parents, and players.

Getting Started

Young players need simple soccer activities to improve technically. Solo Soccer puts over one hundred of these activities together to improve individuals in all aspects of the game. Players must have fun playing on their own outside of practice and games. This book addresses footwork, ball control, passing, shooting, and even fitness to teach players how to practice at home.

Parents can now be involved with daily soccer challenges for their children. Solo Soccer can easily become family time! Moms and Dads can help shag balls to speed up repetition time or act as a wall or bumper while their child is practicing passing, turning, or shooting. Parents could use a stopwatch to time their child during a speed challenge with any