Product Description

A coaching resource intended for all youth soccer coaches. It reveals the best ways to introduce coaching drills for the safe and proper technical development of young boy and girl players between the ages of 12 and 16. In addition, it provides a reservoir of tried and tested practice routines that will give the coach a well-structured systematic programme. The drills are all age-related and designed to develop specific coaching and training areas such as: warm up/preparation; controlling the ball and turning; passing the ball; shooting and crossing; heading the ball; dribbling the ball; goalkeeping; speed, reaction and rhythm; warm-down."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55735 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
The main aim of this book is to provide a detailed programme of specific and realistic progressive drills for young players. It follows a similar book by the same author for the younger age group, 101 Youth Soccer Drills Vol 1: Age 7-11, and should be regarded as its natural progressor.

The emphasis is on drills that are geared to the specific needs of youngsters aged between 12 and 16 years old, and if used regularly it can't help but systematically improve their playing skills.

Malcolm Cook has been a soccer coach for 30 years and he has spent much of his coaching career with schoolboys and young professional players (though, of course, the recent upsurge of interest in Women's Football means this is equally useful for young girls and women wishing to develop their skills.) For three years, Cook was the Technical Director (Youth) at Liverpool FC and was responsible for revolutionising the club's youth scheme at a time when many top-class players, including Robbie Fowler, Steve McManaman and Dominic Matteo, were on the youth books.

This manual contains a wide range of progressive practice drills designed to help young players further develop and enhance the basic skills touched on in the first volume--passing, shooting, dribbling and running with the ball, timing, goalkeeping--but this time they are in more realistic, game-like situations and, as such, are more suited to the adolescent than the primary-school player.

Coaches looking for the best drills that can easily be applied on pitch, fresh moves to improve their game plan or even just ways to stimulate the old "tried-and-tested" drills--and particularly coaches who have been working with the same group of players for a while--need look no further than Cook's book.

An essential reference for anyone involved in coaching 12 to 16-year-old players. --Ben Naylor

About the Author
Malcolm Cook was a professional player with Motherwell and Bradford Park Avenue. He holds an FA/UEFA full international coaching license, and has coached Doncaster Rovers, Bradford City and Huddersfield Town. He worked as the Director of Youth for Liverpool FC, and was responsible for assisting the early careers of established international players such as Robbie Fowler, Steve McManaman and Dominic Matteo.

Customer Reviews

excellent
This book gives you great drills to use. I coach 8 year olds and I find the drills in this book very good and not to complicated for this age group. Excellent reading and now I will buy the other book by Malcolm Cook for the older age group.

Recomended
A very well written book which provides some very good drills. 7/8 year olds understand the practices & carry them out well.
It is laid out logically with most skills covered apart from control.

The book only really falls down on the information to coaches. I feel that use of coaching points would give volunteers with little or no coaching training some indication as to what is or is not good technique.

Would I buy any more of Malcolms books or recommend them to others Yes.