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Soccer Practice Games-2nd Edition by Joseph A. Luxbacher / Paperback / 157 Pages / Human Kinetics / May 2003 / 0736047891 / List Price $15.95 Make each practice more challenging, productive, and fun with 125 games! Divided into six sections, Soccer Practice Games presents 125 games on the following aspects: Warm-up and conditioning · Passing and receiving · Dribbling, shielding, and tackling · Heading and shooting· Tactical training Goalkeeper training

Youth Soccer Drills-2nd Edition by Jim Garland / Paperback / 216 Pages / Human Kinetics / August 2003 / 0736050639 / List Price $15.95 As a youth soccer coach you have a limited amount of time to teach an enthusiastic group of kids how to play the game—and have fun doing it. That’s why you need Youth Soccer Drills. It helps you develop fundamentally sound players by providing 84 of the game’s best drills for teaching basic spacing and movement concepts, dribbling, passing, and shooting skills to beginning- and intermediate-level players ages 5 to 12.

The Cheers and the Tears: A Healthy Alternative to the Dark Side of Youth Sports Today by Shane Murphy, PhD. / Paperback / 230 Pages / Jossey-Bass Inc Pub / February 1999 / 0787940372 /List Price $18.00 The Cheers and the Tears offers parents and coaches sensible advice and healthy alternative approaches to the competitive and stressful world of youth sports

Through the Eyes of Parents, Children and a Coach: A Fourteen-Year Participant-Observer Investigation of Youth Soccer : A Fourteen-Year Participant-Observer Investigation of Youth Soccer by Steven Aicinena / Paperback / 246 Pages / University Press of America / December 2002 / 0761824367 / List Price $42.50 The interactions taking place between parents, children and coaches are recounted in this participant-observer investigation of American youth soccer.

Games Girls Play : Understanding and Guiding Young Female Athletes by Caroline Silby, Shelley Smith / Paperback / 292 Pages / St Martins / October 2001 / 0312271263 / List Price $14.95 "For the 2 million parents of girls who play intramural sports, the comment, 'you play like a girl,' is considered a compliment. Games Girls Play, written by sports psychologist and former figure skater Caroline Silby with ESPN reporter Shelley Smith, moves beyond the widely reported benefits of sports for young women--offering both parents and coaches a fresh, smart guide for responding to the needs of the young female athlete."