Dutch Soccer Drills | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Kentwell
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 800489
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 232
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 1570281068
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.334
EAN: 9781570281068
ASIN: 1570281068
Publication Date: May 11, 1998
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Product Description
Europe's top coaches have contributed to this collection of 180 outstanding drills designed to pinpoint specific skills and develop them to their fullest potential. These drills will help coaches advance their players' skills, confidence, and tactical awareness as they strive for creative, attacking soccer. The easy-to-use layout of Dutch Soccer Drills makes it an essential practice tool for all coaches. Divided into chapters on dribbling, passing, shooting, heading, restart plays, goalkeeping and conditioning, coaches have drills designed for the skills they want to work on right at their fingertips. Each drill features the objective, a clear diagram, and easy-to-follow organizational factors, instructions, coaching points and variations. Coaches will gain exciting new ideas from these excellent drills which will keep their players motivated and interested. Whether you want to break out of a practice rut or keep from falling into one, Dutch Soccer Drills will energize your players and make the most of practice time. Richard Kentwell is a licensed English F. A. Coach with over 25 years of coaching experience. The author of four books and numerous articles, Kentwell earned his masters degree in education from Boston University, with a specialization in human movement. He is a director of the British American School of Soccer and president of Reedswain, the coaching and book specialists.
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 Lots of drills... not much variety February 18, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book, and the other Dutch Soccer Drills book is full of drills, that if you are interested in running them from a coaching perspective, involve a lot of "pattern" play and running. As a competitive level youth coach I personally only use only a handful of drills from these books, and mostly the small-sided games, which do not constitute a large part of this book. Drills where players pass from one position to the next, move, then do some function are good conditioning exercises for the beginning of practices, but they are robotic and repetition oriented and really have limited use training players to make good decisions during games. Stick to the Weil Coerver series for skill development and then keep practices to 2 vs 2, 3 v. 3, 3 v 4 small games for the best development of youths.
Complicated Drills November 25, 1999
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I found most of the drills to be quite complicated and difficult to implement on the field. I did find some useful drills and others may become more useful in the future as I coach upper age groups, up to U-12 right now. But the time lost explaining the drills and setting them up is better spent on less complex drills with more ball touches per player. I also prefer small sided games to allow the game to teach the players.
 It it a lot of fun. May 11, 1999
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book gives you a lot of ideas for you and your team to do. It really helped my soccer skills.
So many good drills I can't begin to use them all! November 23, 1998
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
For a coach desiring to teach skills to individuals, small groups, or team drills, this book has it all. As a newcomer to the game three years ago, but a former coach of other High School level sports, I found this book jam-packed with useful drills. It can be beneficial to everyone from a U-6 coach to the High School level. The wide variety of drills addressing so many different skills, allows me to keep my practices fun and fresh for my team. I can't comment from the viewpoint of an experienced soccer coach, but from my perspective of coaching youth teams for 3 years, it was easily the best spent money of the year for my team. Any coach wanting to teach his/her team new skills in a fun and organized way should really take a look at this one. It even prompted me to invent two or three new drills of my own that the team (U-10) loves to practice.
Excellent for 15 to 17 years old advanced players. November 23, 1998
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have had this book for a year and I have found it to be extremely useful. To get most out of this book, players should have good talent level and they should have got used to long-term practicing. This book is good handbook when creating an own playing system or way to play. It is excellent handbook, when planning own practices - it gives new ideas and it may be used as the base of all coaching work.
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