Soccer Fitness

In an ideal world, you have an infinite amount of time and energy to work on your strength, power, speed, endurance, and flexibility. However, we both know that it is hard to always find the time needed to train. Therefore, this book reveals the few key ways to dramatically increase your speed in a short time. This book details the most important 20 percent of fitness to help you get 80 percent+ of the results. Also, this book discusses the one type of stretching that you are probably doing that is increasing your chances of becoming injured.

Are you a skilled soccer player who can't make it big? Is it because of your lack of physical and mental fitness? Soccer Fitness provides an excellent way to help with soccer fitness for players and coaches. It offers examples of ways in which players can enhance their endurance for playing soccer and looks at the kind of fitness specifically needed for playing soccer at the highest level.

"The Art of War for Soccer" is a groundbreaking book that seamlessly adapts the ancient wisdom of Sun Tzu to the modern soccer pitch, offering readers a unique lens through which to understand the strategy, tactics, and psychology of one of the world’s most beloved sports. This compelling read draws direct parallels between the battlefields of yesteryears and today's soccer arenas, illustrating how principles of warfare can inform and enhance approaches to soccer coaching, team management, and individual player development. At the heart of the book is the notion that success in soccer, ...

Pep Guardiola's Blueprint of Positional Soccer is an immersive exploration of the football strategies that have shaped Pep Guardiola's legendary career. From his formative years under Johan Cruyff to his celebrated tenures at Barcelona, Bayern Munich, and Manchester City, this comprehensive study uncovers the principles, tactics, and adaptability that mark Guardiola's distinctive football philosophy. Drawing on extensive match analysis, player anecdotes, and Guardiola's own reflections, the book delves into the core of his unique approach to the game. It examines key concepts such as ...

Become a Dynamo on The Soccer Field With our Comprehensive Step-by-Step Soccer Fitness Guide... ...Featuring Tips on all Aspects of Soccer Fitness Training, Including: Improve Your Stamina Do you suffer from fatigue late on in games? By following my personal regimes you will never again miss that late-shooting opportunity or fail to perform that last-minute sliding challenge because of a lack of energy. I will help you to improve your stamina so that you can maintain your performance right through to the final whistle. Become an Indestructible Soccer Force Using my personal regimes you will...

30-Minute Guide to Coaching Youth Soccer is exactly what the title promises: the essential, unvarnished, deeply practical primer for anyone thrust—willingly or otherwise—into the chaotic, beautiful world of coaching kids’ soccer. Whether you're a parent wrangled into the role, a teacher doing double-duty, or a sports veteran adjusting to the unpredictable logic of under-10s, this book gives you what you actually need. No fluff. No empty platitudes. Just direct, field-tested advice. In thirty densely packed minutes (give or take), you'll get a crash course in how to run a practice that...

Want to learn the number one thing holding you back from scoring more goals? Have you ever wanted to know the secrets to easily make a team in tryouts? Ever wonder why you get nervous before a tryout? Want to become the fastest player on your team? This audiobook lays out step-by-step what you should work on and the most important keys to being able to perform. This audiobook provides the structure to ensure that you are not just getting a little information in one spot and some knowledge in another without being able to understand the entire picture of how it all works together.

Balancing soccer, school, family, eating healthy foods, and the many other things requiring your time can be difficult. Consuming food that is working against you can make it even more difficult to stay balanced and succeed. There is no such thing as a perfect diet, but there are definitely eating habits that will lift you to great heights and junk foods that will hold you back from taking your game to the next level.

As the coach, you are the leader of the team and should lead by example. The harder you work, the harder your team will work. There is not a perfect way to coach and it normally takes time to find the style that works best for you and motivates your players. This book will help you in that process. This book is not intended to be a complete guide on coaching because if you have ever coached, you realize that everything to know could not be contained in one book. It will help you become the coach that changes every game, the coach whose team every player wants to be on.

From their humble beginnings to iconic victories on the global stage, Goal by Goal: The Rise of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (USWNT) charts the transformative journey of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (USWNT). Dive deep into the highs, lows, challenges, and successes of a team that not only revolutionized women's soccer but also pioneered change off the pitch. Discover the battles for equality, the evolution of their playing style, and the emergence of new stars carrying the legacy forward. This comprehensive account offers readers an inside look at the team's indomitable ...

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, and it is fun. There is only one problem. It is not entertaining enough for the world audience, and it could be so much more. In this book, Alan Philowitz has altered the rules of soccer to make it more competitive, athletic, and entertaining for audiences worldwide. This version of soccer permits 14 men on the field per team for 50% of the match, two goalies at times, alternative scoring, and options to field up to 12 men with no designated goalie. Once played, this version of soccer will be adopted and loved by football fans worldwide because...

Forget charisma. Forget grit. Forget every locker-room cliché wrapped in nationalism, testosterone, and nostalgia. Football Relationism is not a book about heroes or heart—it is a brutal, forensic, system-level dissection of the sport we still dare to call “the beautiful game.” If traditional football thought in terms of players, moments, and formations, this book argues that the future belongs to relations: the interdependencies between zones, the mutual reading of intention, the invisible threads that connect one movement to the next. Told through the clipped, tactical voice of a ...

The U15 Soccer Coaching Guide serves as an essential tool for coaches aiming to positively influence the development of U15 soccer players across all genders. This all-encompassing manual spans the gamut of coaching necessities, from grasping the distinctive traits and developmental stages of U15 athletes to the application of impactful coaching ideologies and methods of communication. Initiating with an examination of the cognitive, physical, and emotional evolution typical of U15 players, the guide underscores the necessity of crafting an engaging and welcoming atmosphere conducive to ...

"The U17 Soccer Coaching Bible" is a vital tool for coaches dedicated to impacting the development of U17 soccer players. This comprehensive guide spans all facets of coaching, tailored specifically for the U17 age group, encompassing both male and female players. It is crafted to assist coaches in understanding the distinct characteristics and developmental stages of U17 athletes, integrating effective coaching philosophies and communication methods to maximize their impact. The book opens with an examination of the cognitive, physical, and emotional growth typical of U17 players. It ...

In a sport obsessed with goals, assists, and last touches, The Third Man Is God peels back the veil on football’s most invisible and indispensable figure: the player who doesn’t receive the ball, yet shapes every sequence. Written with clinical detail and a philosopher’s edge, this book confronts the sacred mythologies of the modern game—the cult of the playmaker, the tyranny of the highlight, the false security of patterns—and reveals how the real architecture of success is built not through possession, but through timing, trust, and ghost movement. This isn’t another tactics ...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Secret Footballer: What Goes on Tour by The Secret Footballer. Since his first book was published in 2012, The Secret Footballer has been able to take the listener behind the scenes of footballers' lives like no other player has been or will ever be able to do. Anonymity has been a potent weapon in revealing the real world of football stars, and five years on, he has now penned the work that all his fellow professionals have been urging him to do from the start: The Secret Footballer: What Goes on Tour.

The Relationist Blueprint is a coaching manifesto for building teams that move with intelligence, connect in layers, and dominate through rhythm. Forget rigid positional systems. This book teaches you how to develop players who read each other, not just the playbook. From rondos that teach anticipation to constraint-led drills that sharpen timing, this is a blueprint for constructing footballers who don’t just run plays—they feel patterns. Designed for serious coaches at all levels, this book walks you through the core principles of relationist football: shared scanning, third-man ...

So many coaching books require complex equipment, copious resources, and fantastic facilities. In writing Practice Soccer at Home, we are seeking to offer a guide for those times when we train alone, in our backyard, with little more than a ball and our immediate environment.