| Description |
xii, 175 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1 v 1 Defending: Don't Get Beat Behind -- Dribbling Moves: Finish Your Defender -- Keep the Ball: Use Your Body -- Dynamic Step Overs -- Receive the Ball to Play It -- Juggling: Be Creative and Test Yourself -- Group Juggling -- Power Shooting: Hammer It -- Volleys: Don't Be Satisfied Just Hitting It -- Long Balls: Get Elevation -- Heading 6cThrow-Ins: Put Your Back Into It -- One-Touch Passing: Keep the Ball -- Goalkeeper Shot Blocking -- Goalkeeping: Facing High Balls -- Hitch Kick/Bicycle: Expand Your Shooting Range -- Side Volleys: Strike Them Down -- Receiving the Ball: Give Yourself Options -- Play the Way You Face -- Get Open: Make Runs -- Runs for Crosses: Get Open and Finish -- Crosses: Set the Table -- 2 v 1 Overlapping: Spread the Defense -- What to Do When You Have the Ball -- Pressuring the Ball Defensively: Be Solid -- Give-and-Go: One-Two to Break Down the Defense -- Look for 1 v 1 Opportunities -- 3 v 2 to Goal: Break Down the D -- Receive with a Purpose -- Triangle Support -- Support Your Teammate with the Ball -- Pass and Move -- Attacking from the Flank: Be Dangerous -- 5 v 2: Make It Worthwhile -- Keep Possession with Bent Ball Passes -- Get in Defensive 1 v 11/2 Situations -- Space-Opening Runs -- Attacking the Wall -- Pressure the Ball -- Support on Defense -- Defensive Cover -- Stretch the Defense -- Penalty Kicks: Hit Them Hard and Low -- Defending Close-in Indirect Kicks -- Long Free Kicks -- Offensive Indirect Free Kicks -- Learn Your Opponent -- Goalkeeping Positioning: Know Your Angles -- Start the Offense as a Goalkeeper: Dead Balls -- Start the Offense as a Goalkeeper: Balls in Play -- Goalkeeper Playing Crosses: Remember Cinderella -- First-Time Finishing -- Add Some Spice to Your Game: Nutmeg -- Dummy the Ball -- Heading to Finish: Hit the Goal Line -- Heading to Clear: Get It to Safety -- Heading to Pass: Keep It -- Increasing Your Chances of Scoring -- Scoring on Close Indirect Kicks -- 1 v 2: Test Yourself -- Tackle or Delay? -- Mental Exercises -- Numbering of Positions -- Outside Backs: Own the Flank -- The Buck Four: Defensive Positioning Is Key -- Width and Depth: Offense -- Width and Depth: Defense -- Setting the Wall on a Direct Free Kick: Part 1 -- Setting the Wall on a Direct Free Kick: Part 2 -- It's Your Ball Until Proven Otherwise -- Move on Corners -- Make Your Weak Foot Acceptable -- Get Soccer Strong -- Get Game Fit -- Win the Bali: Start the Offense -- Working the Ball Out of the Back -- Beating the Offside Trap. |
| Summary |
To reach your full potential as a soccer player, not only do you need to know the right tactics, but you need to know when to use them and how to carry them out. This takes practice, determination, and, above all, the right coaching. You'll find your coaching here in Soccer Smarts. For intermediate-level soccer players and above, Soccer Smarts presents skills, tactics, and mental exercises to help you become a complete soccer player, inside and out. |
| Audience |
1040L Lexile |
| Subject(S) |
Soccer.
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Soccer -- Training.
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| Added Name(S) |
Buckley, Conor (Illustrator), illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9781641522151 (paperback) |
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1641522151 (paperback) |
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