Recommendations

Books and Videos

U.S. Soccer’s Coaching Education Department has released a new publication designed to give youth and junior level soccer coaches in the United States a set of fundamental tools to help open up the game of soccer to young players in ways that celebrate the sport’s spontaneous qualities. The 70-page “Best Practices for Coaching Soccer in the United States” coaching book serves as the sport’s definitive new player development guidelines and is available now as a free download at ussoccer.com.

To download a pdf copy, click on:

http://www.ussoccer.com/articles/viewArticle.jsp_280734.html

The Baffled Parents Guide to Great Soccer Drills

by Tom Fleck and Ron Quinn

available at:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/007138488X/qid=1092054804/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_9/002-5371943-5060038?v=glance&s=books

"Playing to Extremes"

DVD by A&E Network

available at: http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=73860

Whose Game Is It, Anyway?: A Guide to Helping Your Child Get the Most from Sports, Organized by Age and Stage

http://www.amazon.com/Whose-Game-Anyway-Helping-Organized/dp/0618474609/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9213405-4024061?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177077955&sr=8-1

Georgia Youth Soccer has produced a 35 minute video on "Player Development"

It is well worth the time of coaches and parents to view.

Click on: http://www.streamingsportsnet.com/gasoccer.html

and then click on "Watch the video"

US Youth Soccer has produced a DVD on Positive Parenting. For more information, click on:

http://www.usyouthsoccer.org/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=4&url_article_id=2114&url_subchannel_id=&change_well_id=2