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The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Youth Soccer |  | Author: Bobby Clark
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 9325
Media: Paperback
Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0071346082
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.334077
UPC: 639785800651
EAN: 9780071346085
ASIN: 0071346082
Publication Date: July 19, 1999
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Written by soccer great and championship Stanford coach Bobby Clark, COACHING YOUTH SOCCER: THE BAFFLED PARENT'S GUIDE tells you how, starting at point zero, an uninitiated coach can meld kids into a team and help them enjoy one of the most rewarding experiences of their youth. (In the end, you may be the one who reaps the biggest reward, as you watch kids learn and grow in an experience they'll treasure for a lifetime.)
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Excellent teaching guide August 9, 2010
kkirkham
This book is great for the first time coach. I played soccer in high school, but am just now coaching my first team and it has been a great tool!
 Took Me from Clueless to Competent April 22, 2010
A Customer
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book took me from being a total non-athlete, knowing nearly nothing about soccer and never having coached anything before, to being a coach with a plan. I am coaching my son's U8 soccer team, and even with this book it has been a challenge, but without the book, I would have been completely lost. Here's what the book did for me:
(1) it taught me the rules of soccer. I did have a bit of trouble understanding the offside rule as stated in the book, so I had to ask a friend to clarify for me.
(2) it taught me the most fundamental soccer skills: dribbling, passing, shooting.
(3) it gave me sample practices and a general structure to use as templates for my own practices, and it gave me plenty of games and drills to choose from to fill them.
(4) it told me what to do on game day.
(5) it prepared me for the psychology of my wild and crazy boys. This is key. I am a female "intellectual type" who has never really played or enjoyed watching sports (and has never worked with this age group), so the whole mindset was completely foreign to me. It prepared me for the facts that they would listen to only the briefest of instructions, that they needed to be moving at almost all times, that for them no drill or game would be as exciting as JUST SOCCER, in its pure form.
So why four stars? There's one thing that could really improve this book, and that is some kind of guide, for all the games and drills in the book, that would rate the maturity level and skill level needed for each one. Maybe also a minimum child-to-adult ratio required to run it successfully. (Unfortunately ours is 10 to 1.) As a U8 coach in a relatively casual city recreation league, I am at the very bottom end of the intended audience for this book. And because of my inexperience, it is very difficult for me to tell which of the drills are appropriate for my team, until I get onto the field with them to try it. By then it's too late, and the failed drill can make it hard to re-engage the kids for the next activity. For this reason I plan to order the guide for 6-and-under soccer even though my kids are over six. I need some tried-and-true tricks for engaging the youngest players when things aren't going the way I planned.
Overall I am very grateful for this book and what it has done for our team.
Excellent - don't be put off by the title October 20, 2009
Jeff Buxton (North Andover, MA, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book for ANY youth soccer coach - don't be put off by the title.
It has tons of drills and games you can instantly put into play at your next practice to keep things fun and fresh for the kids.
I've coached both girls and boys teams even though I never played the game, and I used many of the games, drills, and skills from this book to make my teams the best they could be.
The Baffled Parents Guide to Coaching Youth Soccer October 7, 2009
Derick D. Cummins
Very helpful. First time coach. Had a winning season largely thanks to this book.
Great overview and plenty of drills/activities August 30, 2009
R. Kardell (Omaha, NE United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book contains a great overview of youth soccer and how to coach it.
The book contains a lot of information about the administration of coaching - planning, calling, communication, control of practices, etc., - as well as the techniques. The books contains a nice summary of the rules, different coaching styles, dealing with gender issues, and more. The table of contents is a accurate over-view as to the contents of the book.
I had heard about this book while taking my "E" certificate course. The instructor and one of the other students recommended it because - and this is the real benefit of the book - the drills, games, and activities, listed at the back of the book. The book gives some nice practices plans and skills and drills to work on with the kids and because of the drills at the back of the book, the book continues to be a valuable reference tool.
One thing that I thought was missing is what to expect from soccer players at each age. I know that everyone is different, but I thought a nice overall guide as to what to expect from U11 Girls, for example, would be nice.
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