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The Bearded Coach’s Football Session Planner

The Bearded Coach’s Football Session Planner

“I have always struggled with session planners. They never include the sections I need, or the space to write and draw what I want.” Football…

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3v3 Soccer Coaching: The Complete Collection

The 3v3 Football Training books, by world-renowned coach and coach educator Peter Prickett, are some of the best-selling and acclaimed coaching books of recent years.…

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Maximise Your Training Sessions: Football Practices for Ever-Changing Numbers and Spaces

Maximise Your Training Sessions

Have you ever planned the perfect football training session only to find half your players have failed to turn up?

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A-Z of Goalkeeping: Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping in Football

A-Z Goalkeeping

In this concise and focussed book on goalkeeping, 61 key topic areas are presented in an A-Z format.

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3v3: Inspired By Legends

Turn and Burn

3v3: Inspired By Legends is the latest in the 3v3 series, and uses footballing greats to help develop footballing skills in small-sided environments.

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Coaching Abroad: How 8 Coaches Got Jobs and Succeeded Worldwide

Turn and Burn

In this book, by coach and author Blaine McKenna, the careers and lives of eight football coaches in the shadows are explored.

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Youth Soccer Coaching Book

Making The Ball Roll: A Complete Guide to Youth Football for the Aspiring Soccer Coach

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Making the Ball Roll is the ultimate complete guide to coaching youth soccer. This focused and easy-to-understand book details training practices and tactics, and goes on to-

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Just a Bus Stop in Hounslow: Brentford FC’s 2021/22 Season in The Premier League

Just a Bus Stop

Just a Bus Stop in Hounslow follows Brentford FC’s epic season in the 2021/22 Premier League.

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Games-Based Goalkeeper Training Andy Elleray

Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping in Football: Games-Based Goalkeeper Training

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Goalkeeping training in football has long utilised a drill-based approach, often with a major technical focus. But there is an alternative approach; one that centres…

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Deliberate Soccer Practice: 50 Rondo and Positional Play Football Practices

Rondo Exercises

This book contains 50 well-planned, thought-out, and presented rondo-based football training practices for soccer coaches.

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Goalkeeping Basics

Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping in Football: Goalkeeping Basics

ACT in sport

In this full-colour book, containing 45 illustrated training exercises, goalkeepers will work on areas of their game relevant to their position – without them even knowing it – as they are made to think quickly and do what comes naturally to them.

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Its Just a Ball - Jon Townsend

It’s Just a Ball: Exploring the Complexity of a Simple Game

It's Just a Ball - Jon Townsend

From the streets and training centers of Europe and the United States to the beaches of Brazil, the book explores not only what makes soccer great, but what makes a great soccer player.

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Football’s Principles of Play

Football’s Principles of Play

ACT in sport

Join best-selling author and coach – Peter Prickett – as he puts football under the microscope and breaks it down into its constituent parts.

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Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping Age-Specific Book Andy Elleray

Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping in Football: Age-Specific Goalkeeper Development

Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping in Football

In this latest publication from goalkeeping specialist Andy Elleray, the goalkeeper’s position is looked at through an age-specific lens.

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Through The Thirds by Tony Mee

Through the Thirds: A Systematic Approach to Planning Your Football Season

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Do you coach footballers and want to build a practical, possession-based soccer curriculum? You’ve come to the right place! Through The Thirds – from leading-

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Coaching Youth Football Ray power

Coaching Youth Football: What Soccer Coaches Can Learn From The Professional Game

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Coaching Youth Football is the highly-anticipated follow-up to the international, best-selling soccer coaching book, Making The Ball Roll, by Ray Power. With the help of-

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3v3 Soccer Coaching Book 2

Developing Skill 2: A Guide to 3v3 Soccer Coaching

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3v3 football training is gaining serious momentum in the world of coaching. Indeed, at the end of 2019, the German FA stands on the brink-

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Blowing The Whistle Football Referee Book

Blowing The Whistle: The Psychology of Football Refereeing

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The football referee. Charged with controlling the players and enforcing the laws of the most popular and passionate game on the planet, they are often-

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Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping in Soccer

Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping in Football: A Practical Perspective on the Most Unique Position in Sport [Second Edition]

Scientific Second Edition

Goalkeeping in football is changing, and scrutiny – in terms of training, support, and on-field actions – has never been higher. This fully updated, resized-

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Togetherness: How to Build a Winning Team

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Togetherness is a powerful state of connection between individuals that can lead to amazing triumphs. In sport, teams win matches, but teams with togetherness-

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Pre-Season Soccer Training

Pre-Season Soccer Training: A Seven Week, 50 Session Guide to Building For The New Season

Pre-Season Elias

The pre-season is often the time that readies a soccer team for success. Get pre-season right and a team hits the ground running; they mesh-

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One Football, No Nets

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In September 2017, amateur British football coach Justin Walley became the “National Team” Manager of Matabeleland, an obscure international team in western Zimbabwe.

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Developing Skill: A Guide to 3v3 Soccer Coaching

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As soccer players develop, they need to become truly confident with the ball, and the best way to achieve mastery is by maximising their touches

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Forward Specific Practices in Soccer

Developing Soccer Players: Forward-Specific Practices

The development path for soccer players contains many elements: from technical execution, to tactical awareness, to mental strength, and more. But as players progress, they-

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Goalkeeper Training Exercises

101 Goalkeeper Training Practices

In 101 Goalkeeper Training Practices, goalkeeping coach Andy Elleray follows up his previous trilogy of goalkeeping books to provide fellow football coaches and goalkeepers with-

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Soccer Tough Books 1 and 2

Soccer Tough: Books I & II

Soccer Tough 1 and 2

Dan Abrahams is the world-renowned sport psychologist who has helped to transform player development and the coaching of soccer. His Soccer Tough titles have become-

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50 More Goalkeeping Exercises

50 More Goalkeeper Training Exercises

In 50 More Goalkeeper Training Exercises, goalkeeping coach Andy Elleray follows up his previous book – 65 Goalkeeper Training Exercises – to provide fellow football-

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The Modern Soccer Coach 3-in-1 Gary Curneen

The Modern Soccer Coach: 3-In-1

Modern Soccer Coach 3-in-1

The Modern Soccer Coach books, by renowned coach and coach educator Gary Curneen, are some of the best-selling and most acclaimed soccer coaching books of-

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The Future Coach | Soccer Coach Book

The Future Coach: Creating Tomorrow’s Soccer Players Today

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Successful soccer coaches are constantly seeking new ways to learn, evolve, and improve. Very often, footballing success is defined by mindset, and the real winners-

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Building a Successful High School Sports Program

Building a Successful High School Sports Program

Whatever sport you coach, building a successful sports program can be an enormous, sometimes daunting, task filled with many responsibilities and demands. Questions and decisions-

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Small-Sided Games in Soccer Football

Deliberate Soccer Practice: 50 Small-Sided Football Games to Improve Decision-Making

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Small-sided games are the epicentre of soccer improvement. Done right, they can play a huge role-

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Goalkeeper Training Exercises for Soccer

65 Goalkeeper Training Exercises: Modern Games-Based Soccer Drills for Shot Stopping, Footwork, Distribution, and More

65 goalkeeper exercises

In 65 Goalkeeper Training Exercises, goalkeeping coach and educator, Andy Elleray, offers fellow football coaches a way of training that takes keepers from the confines of-

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Play Like Pep Guardiola's Barcelona

Play Like Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona: A Soccer Coach’s Guide

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The four seasons that Josep ‘Pep’ Guardiola spent in charge of the first team at FC Barcelona saw a period of extraordinary football supremacy delivered

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Deliberate Soccer Practice Attacking

Deliberate Soccer Practice: 50 Attacking Exercises to Improve Decision-Making

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In soccer, attacking sessions are loved by players. The chance to be creative, attack, and score goals is hugely prized by players at all levels of the game.

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Winning Your Players through Trust, Loyalty, and Respect: A Soccer Coach's Guide

Winning Your Players through Trust, Loyalty, and Respect: A Soccer Coach’s Guide

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In order to develop the best soccer players, who can achieve their very best in the game, a coach needs to instill three central qualities-

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Deliberate Soccer Practice Defending

Deliberate Soccer Practice: 50 Defending Football Exercises to Improve Decision-Making

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We are told that the art of defending is dying. We are told that even large academies neglect it, as it is not ‘technical’ enough.

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Paul Webb Strength training for footballers

Paul Webb Academy | Strength Training Books for Footballers and Goalkeepers

In this Strength Training Book Series, ex-professional footballer and renowned strength coach Paul Webb distils over 20 years of knowledge

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Soccer Tough 2 - Soccer Psychology Book

Soccer Tough 2: Advanced Psychology Techniques for Footballers

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Global soccer psychologist Dan Abrahams is back with a follow up to his groundbreaking, international bestseller Soccer Tough. In Soccer Tough 2: Advanced Psychology Techniques for Footballers Dan introduces soccer players to more cutting edge tools and techniques-

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Youth Soccer Development Book

Youth Soccer Development: Progressing the Person to Improve the Player

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In recent times, it has become clear that many aspects of traditional youth football coaching and development need to change. In an ever-changing world, driven by progress in education-

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Let's Talk Soccer: Using Game-Calls to Develop Communication and Decision-Making in Football

Let’s Talk Soccer: Using Game-Calls to Develop Communication and Decision-Making in Football

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Soccer coaches across all levels of the game share a common and simple dilemma: how best to improve their players. One of the best ways to do this is through improved communication-

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Deliberate Soccer Practice: 50 Passing & Possession Football Exercises to Improve Decision-Making

Deliberate Soccer Practice: 50 Passing & Possession Football Exercises to Improve Decision-Making

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Soccer is in transition. There is now a growing trend away from ‘drills’, towards sessions that are more variable and which involve more decision making. But coaches have-

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The Modern Soccer Coach: Position-Specific Training

The Modern Soccer Coach: Position-Specific Training

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In recent years, player development has been a hot topic in the soccer world. With more pressure on coaches to win than ever before, the modern game seems to be less about actual players and more about-

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Modern Soccer Coach Gary Curneen

The Modern Soccer Coach 2014: A Four Dimensional Approach

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Over the last 20 years, no sport has changed more than soccer. The modern player is technically more capable, physically faster and stronger, and has access to more coaching-

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The Footballers Journey

The Footballer’s Journey: real-world advice on becoming and remaining a professional footballer

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Many youngsters dream of becoming a professional footballer. But football is a highly competitive world where only a handful will succeed. Many aspiring soccer players don’t know exactly-

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Gary Curneen Modern Soccer Coach Preseason Training

The Modern Soccer Coach: Pre-Season Training

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When it comes to building successful soccer teams, pre-season is a critical time. It’s the perfect time for the coach to create a team identity, set standards, develop effective-

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Universality | The Blueprint for Soccer’s New Era: How Germany and Pep Guardiola are showing us the Future Football Game

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The game of soccer is constantly in flux; new ideas, philosophies and tactics mould the present and shape the future. Since the turn of the century we have witnessed-

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Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping in Football: A practical perspective on the most unique position in sport

Do you coach goalkeepers and want to help them realise their fullest potential? Are you a goalkeeper looking to reach the top of your game?

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Soccer Brain: The 4C Coaching Model for Developing World Class Player Mindsets and a Winning Football Team

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Coaching soccer is demanding. Impossible to perfect, it requires a broad knowledge of many performance areas including technique, tactics, psychology and the social aspects of human development.

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Soccer Tactics 2014: What The World Cup Taught Us

Soccer Tactics 2014: What The World Cup Taught Us

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World Cups throw up unique tactical variations. Countries and football cultures from around the globe converge, in one place, to battle it out for world soccer supremacy. The 2014 World Cup in Brazil-

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The Bundesliga Blueprint: How Germany became the Home of Football

The Bundesliga Blueprint: How Germany became the Home of Football

German Football is on a roll: winners of the 2014 World Cup, Bundesliga club sides leading the way in Europe, a production line of superb talent coming through the system. Yet, fifteen years ago-

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The Way Forward: Solutions to England's Football Failings

The Way Forward: Solutions to England’s Football Failings

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In The Way Forward, football coach Matthew Whitehouse examines the causes of English football’s decline and offers a number of areas where change and improvement need to be implemented immediately. With a keen focus and passion for youth development-

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Developing the Modern Footballer through Futsal

Developing the Modern Footballer through Futsal

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In this book, England futsal coach Michael Skubala, and Seth Burkett, detail the ways in which the sport can be used to develop the technical and tactical skills of players of all abilities.

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Coaching Psychological Skills in Youth Football: Developing The 5Cs

Coaching Psychological Skills in Youth Football: Developing The 5Cs

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Successful footballers are typically those who are best able to: regulate their emotions, fix their attention, utilise effective interpersonal skills, and remain highly motivated and self-assured in the face of consistent challenges.

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Soccer Training Blueprints: 15 Ready-to-Run Sessions for Outstanding Attacking Play

Soccer Training Blueprints: 15 Ready-to-Run Sessions for Outstanding Attacking Play

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Are you a busy coach and time is tight? Would you like to get hands on with ready-to-use session templates quickly? Then this book is for you!

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What is Tactical Periodization?

What is Tactical Periodization?

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Originally developed by Vitór Frade, at the University of Porto, Tactical Periodization is a methodology – popularized by coaches such as José Mourinho and Andre Villas Boas-

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Soccer Tough - Soccer Psychology Book

Soccer Tough: Simple Football Psychology Techniques to Improve Your Game

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Technique, speed and tactical execution are crucial components of winning soccer, but it is mental toughness (soccer psychology) that marks out the very best players – the ability to play when pressure is highest, the opposition is strongest, and fear is greatest.

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