But take the message: start ball mastery young and at home, encourage control and not booting the ball, develop confidence and ability to run or protect the ball.
With this foundation, passsing and receiving and other technicl aspects can easily be developed later, I now have a challenge, how can my Us 'catch up' and be masters of the ball! I've known Tom Byer foryears and over those years we've talked a lot of soccer.
In that time, he's focused his coaching skills on children and reached the point where he is, without any doubt, one of the world's leading thinkers on teaching children the technical skills of soccer.
This book should be bought by every parent in Britain, Canada and the United States countries where I've had involvement with soccer and beyond to understand what a child who likes soccer can learn and how they can learn.
It's not
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a textbook it's a guide, It's a philosophy that is so basic and so true it's just amazing that it's taking so long to be recognized, Many people in soccer still don't get it,
I've been involved in soccer as a player and coach for overyears, so trust me when I tell you that this book is gold dust for your kids.
Paul Mariner
Ex England internationalcaps
UEFA Cup winner
F, A. Cup winnerI liked this method for introducing soccer to the very young, Having confidence on the ball and being able to use both feet equally is definitely lacking in American soccer today, Ive played and coached for overyears and Im going to try to implement this method with young children, The main drawback will be to get the patents to commit to continuing every day at home what we do at a weekly session.
How it has taken me so long to finally sit down and read this book is beyond me, This is absolutely probably the best coaching book I have read in all my years of playing and coaching, unheard of Tom before but never really looked into him deeply, But man was I fool, this makes so much sense and can be so easily applied it can defined as tennis but should be common sense.
I will now totally look at my coaching differently and look at kids differently also, Cannot recommend this book highly enoughdoes not do it justice Absolute gold standard stuff by Tom, As a young, full time youth coach, I get a lot of young teams, Currently U, UBoys, UGirls and UBoys, This is really about creating a culture of soccer in the kids life, which is the most important things, Not your training sessions, or coaching points, or tournaments/league play, That doesn't matter, but creating a culture where the kids plays outside training session and inside and outside their home, because he's in love with the game, is so important.
Educating parents and making sure they create that environment is the most important thing you can do as a coach of young age kids.
Fred Varcoe was born in London and grew up in the west of England, After working in London for part of the government, he lived in, or spent extended time in, Saudi Arabia, Spain and Thailand before settling in Japan and becoming the Sports Editor of The Japan Times.
Afteryears at The Japan Times, Fred moved on to other things, including becoming Sports Editor and auto writer at Metropolis magazine, establishing an internet project with Nissan, writing and editing for J.
League team the Yokohama F, Marinos and the Japan Football Association, writing for Billboard magazine and working with the International Volleyball Federation, His first solo book is 'The Dark Side of Life in Japan' and he is co author of 'Soccer Starts at Home' with Tom Byer.
He also edited and helped publish 'Passion,' the autobiography of former Japan national team coach Philippe Troussier, He lives near Tokyo with his wife and daughter, neither of whom share his passion for golf and heavy metal music, .