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Developing the Complete Tactical Player: Coaching Soccer with Game Intelligence in Mind


 
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Developing the Complete Tactical Player: Coaching Soccer with Game Intelligence is a unique book that shows you how to train players to develop tactical knowledge, faster decision making, and smarter use of the ball. This is an aspect sorely missed in most training programs, but can make all the difference in taking your players to an elite level.

There is a big problem in US soccer. Despite having more people actively playing soccer than any other country we still lag behind many other nations in the quality of the players we produce. The reason? There is too much focus on skills development, excessive tournament play, and a tendency to over-coach. While in theory this approach sounds sensible, it has led to the creation of highly drilled but robotic players that lack the tactical knowledge and decision making of other nations. In other words, too many players lack the game intelligence they need to reach an elite level.

Developing the Complete Tactical Player: Coaching Soccer with Game Intelligence provides the perfect balance between theory and practice. Its two authors explain in exhaustive detail everything you need to know about the importance of game intelligence and how to develop it in your players.

From this book, you will gain a deeper understanding of the importance of tactical knowledge and decision making, and how it impacts the performance of your team. This book also provides over 50 excellent activities for training different positions and areas of your team in game intelligence.

Whether you coach youth teams, recreational sides, or players at the highest level, this book is an essential addition to your coaching library for developing intelligence in your players and filling the gap in what is missing from traditional training.

It's estimated that there are 24.5 million soccer players in the US, with 14 million under the age of 18. According to FIFA, there are more soccer players in the US than any other country, yet the US lags behind South America and Europe in the production of elite players. Many experts believe this is due to a gap in the training of tactical awareness and decision making in US soccer.

Developing the Complete Tactical Player: Coaching Soccer with Game Intelligence first looks at how the US coaching system is hindering the development of game intelligence and why a profound change is needed in youth coaching.

Utilizing detailed diagrams, informative tables, and charts, this unique book then provides an in-depth guide on how to develop game intelligence in players. From the first defender through to the attacking unit, this book looks at the key positions and how they can be trained to improve their decision making, response times, and better tactical play of your team.

Developing the Complete Tactical Player: Coaching Soccer with Game Intelligence is the creation of two experts on analysis-based coaching with an in-depth understanding of how players need to be trained to reach an elite level.

This comprehensive book covers all aspects of how to coach soccer intelligence, from the theory and reasons why current training methods are failing through to an analysis of how it can be coached to key positions in the team utilizing 50 practical coaching exercises.

Section A – Foundations for Developing Game Intelligence

The book starts by explaining what game intelligence is and why it's an important part of a player's development. The opening section also explains why tactical knowledge is the foundation for all game intelligence and provides a model for how it can be developed.

Section B – How and What to Coach for Game Intelligence

The authors now analyze how and what to coach for developing game intelligence and how the coach's training style affects how well players learn and apply its principles. How players can develop deep tactical knowledge is another key area this chapter focuses on.

Section C – Developing deep and flexible knowledge and anticipation in the defensive phase

The book now looks at the key players in the defensive unit, first individually and then as a unit. Along with the theory and principles of coaching game intelligence to these players, the book provides practical training exercises for developing tactical knowledge and quick decision making.

Section D – Developing deep and flexible knowledge and anticipation in the attacking phase

Quick and correct decision making are skills that can turn a talented player into an elite striker, able to make better use of the time and space they have available to create more scoring opportunities and goals on the scoresheet. This final section now looks at the key attacking positions individually before analyzing how to coach soccer intelligence to the attacking unit as a whole.

It's a fact, despite the vastly superior numbers playing soccer from a young age, the US still lags behind South America and Europe in the development of elite world class players. In this comprehensive book on game intelligence, the authors explain why, making this book an essential purchase for any coach struggling for ideas on how to take his players to the next level.

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