Best soccer coaching books according to redditors
We found 38 Reddit comments discussing the best soccer coaching books. We ranked the 21 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 38 Reddit comments discussing the best soccer coaching books. We ranked the 21 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Inverting the Pyramid - Jonathan Wilson
A pioneering book that chronicles the evolution of soccer tactics and the lives of the itinerant coaching geniuses who have spread their distinctive styles across the globe.
Teambuilding: the road to success - Rinus Michels
The late Rinus Michels, FIFA's Coach of the Century, offers his unique insight into the process of "teambuilding".
The Coaching Philosophies of Louis Van Gaal and the Ajax Coaches - Henny Kormelink and Tjeu Seeverens
Louis van Gaal, Frans Hoek, Co Adriaanse and fitness coach Bobby Haarms discuss their training methods and philosophies in this book full of creative ideas for soccer coaches at any level.
Dutch Soccer Secrets - Peter Hyballa & Hans-Dieter te Poel
This book is a first attempt to present expert knowledge of internationally proven useful and effective Dutch soccer coaching in theory and practice, based on qualitative data collection.
Attacking Soccer: a tactical analysis - Massimo Lucchesi
This book examines match strategies for creating goal scoring opportunities out of various systems of play.
Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?
The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong - Chris Anderson, David Sally
Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the centre of it all are the numbers—a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favour of how things actually are.
Football Against the Enemy - Simon Kuper
Kuper travelled to 22 countries from South Africa to Italy, from Russia to the USA, to examine the way football has shaped them.
This is the biography written about Klinsmann's USMNT time by the same author.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014CS5LGI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Soccer Modern Tactics: Italy's Top Coaches Analyze Game Formations Through 180 Situations
simply put, movement to create space in between defenders.
As far as complicated goes, anything you can think of to be honest. From individual movements and positioning to specific areas on the field, time of the game, personnel, score, condition of the pitch, feel of the game, confidence etc.
Soccer can be simplified or it can be quite complex. When you read bout professional teams and attacking principles, they all break down to simple drills in 1v1 and 2v2 scenarios. They just get more specific with personnel and area of the field.
Great book to read on it: Modern Soccer Coach by Gary Curneen
Sure!
Football-related:
Non-football-related:
I'm a kinesthetic learner so nothing opened by eyes to that stuff until I went on a coaching course and had to do practical sessions.
'How to coach a soccer team' by Tony Carr (former West Ham academy manager) was decent. It's mostly diagrams accompanied by instructions to explain whats going on.
Zauli had a book where he interviewed top Italian managers on tactics and formations, I haven't read it but it seems interesting -
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1591640253/ref=cm_sw_r_other_taa_ZrxQzbZWFBWZ9
The Pep Guardiola books (Confidential, and Evolution) by Marti Perarneu have some theoretical and philosophical musings in that may help.
I recently read The Economist's review of Golazo!: A History of Latin American Football. Looks interesting.
As an intro to tactics/ coaching... The Soccer Handbook.
In my opinion, those 2 books are among the best.
http://www.amazon.com/Soccer-iQ-2-Book-Series/dp/B00XJ08GW2?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&ref_=series_rw_dp_sw
Not OP, but I'd just like to say that you're certainly not screwed. Like someone said above, psychologist Dan Abrahams wrote a book on psychology called Soccer Tough; I'd definitely recommend it. Some of the key points include visualization, focus, and specific things like match scripts and perfectionism. Anyway, my point is that you're definitely not without a way to work on the mental side of your game!
I didn't struggle to find them online, they're right there on Amazon.
If you want to become a coach the best route imho is to take certification courses and volunteer coaching (or assistant coach) kids in one of your local clubs.
There's also /r/bootroom for your questions, I think it's more active.
If you like reading, the best intro overall coaching books that I know are:
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Coaching-Soccer-Systems-Tactics-ebook/dp/B0054RJSAC/
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Soccer-Coach-2014-Dimensional-ebook/dp/B00GCEBBOM/
Have a read of Black People Don't Play Soccer? By Robert Woodard.
A good read.
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This book by Matthew Whitehouse is great. Great examples of how modern coaches revolutionise bits of the game but also how player roles have developed. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00NY4XGV4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Zonal markings premier league one is good too
I agree with the others, joining a club team or getting a coach is going to be very beneficial. If you never compete against others in a real game situation, it will be near impossible to make it to the next level.
As far as technical skills go, I would start off with getting a good first touch. This will give you more control over the ball, and will help you keep it when you do receive it. You can work on your touch by playing wall ball with yourself, working on one and two touches/ground and air balls, or just passing with a friend. For getting more comfortable with the ball on your foot, play keep-ups while alternating feet, trying to reach at least 200 in a row before you start using other surfaces of the foot and doing other tricks. Once you can keep the ball up, your control and comfort in the ball will increase. The final evolution I would do would be dribbling with both feet through a field of random cones, trying to cut around them and turn.
As far as flashy moves go, they are okay to spend time on but shouldn’t be your main focus. All you need to beat a defender 99% of the time is a change of direction and speed. Teaching yourself to do fancy moves might make you more confident but more than likely you will never do those moves in a game. To work on turning, I would recommend learning a pullback, Cruyff, inside and outside chop. You can practice these with a Coerver Square. Finally, don’t worry if you can’t do the flashy moves that your friends can do or all the juggling tricks. what is more important is your touch, speed, and agility.
A great book for learning more about the mental aspect/decision making part of the game is a book called Soccer IQ by Dan Blank. Finally, watch soccer in person or on tv. The World Cup this summer will be a great chance to do this. Try to pick out a player in your position and watch how they move in the formation, what responsibilities they have, and who they typically play the ball to. Good luck!
Ideally, the left back would be about 6-8 yards behind and to the left of the center back. This might leave space on the wing, so when the cross comes in make sure it is man to man marking in the box. If you have trouble dealing with crosses, you could try calling the midfield/winger back, or stretching out a little bit so that the left and right backs are closer to the opponent's wingers.
The best book that I have read that explains this is - Soccer: Modern Tactics
It has been translated from Italian, so the English isn't perfect, but it goes into a lot more depth than I have. Also, there is a kindle version so you can read it online.
Nope, sorry. hes given so much into US soccer. He even wrote a book
The Official Coaching Book of KNVB is excellent
http://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Soccer-Official-Dutch-Association/dp/1890946044/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395697636&sr=8-1&keywords=KNVB+book
As is both of these books from Horst Wein:
Developing Youth Footballers
http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Youth-Football-Players-Horst/dp/0736069488/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395697714&sr=8-1&keywords=developing+youth+football+players
Developing Game Intelligence in Soccer
http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Game-Intelligence-Soccer-Horst/dp/1591640717/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395697768&sr=8-1&keywords=developing+game+intelligence+in+soccer
All three offer a great set of coaching guidelines, a solid philosophy and plenty of drills and simplified games for all age levels. The "Developing Youth Footballers" is used by the Spanish football federation.
Might also find The Philosophies of Louis van Gaal and the Ajax Coaches worth a read, as someone else mentioned, Teambuilding by Michels is like reading the Bible.
Also check out zonalmarking.net he has a list of many, many great books on there, most of which I've read.
Guillem Balaque has a few good books that aren't coaching guideline type books but I found both to be worth reading, "A Season on the Brink" about Rafa's Champions League season with Liverpool and his more recent "Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning" is very inspiring, I could not put it down, really, fantastic book makes you want to quit your real job and coach 24/7.
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This is a good one too:
"Dutch Soccer Secrets"
https://www.amazon.com/Dutch-Soccer-Secrets-Peter-Hyballa/dp/1841263273
This had some good reading besides the instruction.
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You will need at some point to really break it down to a base level, eg: how do you kick a ball?
This is not a brilliant book, but it outlines the absolutee basics and so it has value.
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Football_Skills.html?id=3RZKAAAACAAJ
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Soccer IQ
This is well worth the read :
https://www.amazon.com/Soccer-IQ-Things-Smart-Players/dp/1469982471
I feel like someone should just send 30 copies of this to Mike Petke.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ITD6L3A/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1