About this item
"It's as if Dan was sitting right next to you with a dry erase board saying, 'See what I mean?' This is another must have book for the soccer lover."Ray Leone, Head Coach, Harvard #2 on Football.com's list of the Best Soccer Books for Players and Coaches.A follow-up to the Amazon #1 best-seller, Soccer iQ, Volume 2 is written in the same conversational and humorous tone as its predecessor. Volume 2 is an easy read that identifies more of the most common soccer mistakes and provides players with simple, connect-the-dots solutions that they can immediately implement into their games. It is another must-have book for any serious soccer player. "Soccer iQ Vol. 2 gives you way more than your money's worth."Tony Amato - Head Coach, Arizona.
About the Author
When Football.com named it's Top 14 Books for Soccer Players and Coaches, seven of those titles came from a single author - Coach Dan Blank. Dan Blank has emerged as the most popular how-to author for soccer players and coaches. His first book, Soccer iQ, was named a Top 5 Book of the Year by the NSCAA Soccer Journal and has been the #1 bestseller in Amazon's Soccer and Coaching Soccer genres since 2013. It's also been an Amazon #1 best-seller in Canada and Australia. It has been featured in various soccer publications and websites and has been translated into six other languages: Russian, German, Danish, Dutch Chinese and Korean.
Dan has been coaching college soccer for over twenty years and most recently served as associate head coach at the University of Georgia. He is the first coach in Southeastern Conference history to lead the conference's best defense in consecutive years at different universities (Ole Miss 2009, Georgia 2010) , a feat that is detailed in his book Shutout Pizza. He has an 'A' License from the USSF and an Advanced National Diploma from the NSCAA.
Coach Blank has also authored:
Soccer iQ - Volume 2
Every Thing Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl
HAPPY FEET - How to Be a Gold Star Soccer Parent (Everything the Coach, the Ref and Your Kid Want You to Know)
ROOKIE - Surviving Your Freshman Year of College Soccer
Possession - Teaching Your Team to Keep the Darn Ball
Shutout Pizza - Smarter Soccer Defending for Players and Coaches
You can buy his books and read his blog at www.soccerpoet.com.
From the Author: Soccer iQ is the first book I published and I'm very proud of it. As I wrote Soccer iQ, I could never quite get over the fact that the book I was writing hadn't already been written. There are roughly seventeen million... that's right, seventeen MILLION soccer players in the United States, and no one thought it might be a good idea to write a book to help them become better soccer players? ? ? If they wanted to become better players of Pac Man, Donkey Kong or Call of Duty, yeah, there were books available. But remarkably, no one had the idea to write a book that spelled out how 17 million people could become better soccer players. I felt like they guy who was about to invent the fork... in 2012. And then it happened all over again in 2014 with the publication of HAPPY FEET. Somehow, yet again, no one had written a book specifically for the parents of the 17 million players. So now as Soccer iQ educates soccer players, HAPPY FEET educates their parents. And ROOKIE, well, that's the ultimate survival guide for players about to enter the ranks of college soccer.
Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl is my personal favorite because I think it has the chance to impact a lot of lives. It also gave me the opportunity to write about some of th
