Soccer Skills: Improve Your Team's Possession and Passing Skills through Top Class Drills - Softcover

Dugger, Chest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0648399540 ISBN 13: 9780648399544

Publisher: Abiprod, 2018

Synopsis

Are you looking to improve your soccer skills and get a stronger team?
This book is the answer to your questions.

Soccer is the world’s most popular sport. In the Summer of 2018 the latest World Cup Finals take place in Russia, with some of the best (and, perhaps, luckiest) teams in the world participating. The competition will see teams divided into mini leagues, based on their world rankings and a draw. The top two teams from each group go forward to the knock out stages.

The best two will compete the final. There is a more than reasonable bet that existing champions 
Germany will once again lift the trophy, although Brazil, Argentina, Spain and France will all fancy their chances. The Belgians have the team of a life time, and could triumph, while the likes of Saudi Arabia and Panama should make the most of their time in Eastern Europe – it will probably be short lived. As for Russia itself, the lowest ranked side in the competition, well, who knows? Home advantage can count for a lot.

This short focus on the World Cup is of great relevance to the book that follows. Consider the team below:

Goalkeepers: Jan Oblak, stalwart of the Spanish giants Athletico Madrid – a team whose recent success in challenging the established giants of La Liga, Real Madrid and Barcelona, has been built on gritty, defiant defending; Gianluigi Buffon, legendary player between the posts. 
Defenders: David Alaba, kingpin of Bayern Munich; Antonio Valencia, rampaging wing back of Manchester United and Virgil van Dijk, the most highly rated defender in England’s Premier League, just transferred for a record (for a defender) fee approaching $100 million, Giorgio Chiellini, tough, no nonsense centre back with more than a touch of skill.
Midfielders: Christian Pulisic, Borussio Dortmand’s well regarded midfielder; Arjen Robben, the Bayern Munich and former Chelsea wizard of the wing; Daniele De Rossi, a central defensive midfielder who would walk into any team in the world.
Attackers: Alexi Sanchez, at the time of writing, European powerhouse Arsenal’s outstanding player; Gareth Bale, the Real Madrid attacking maestro; Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, one of the most promising strikers on the planet.

Those of you with good football knowledge will spot that these great players, along with many more, are some of the giants of the game who will not feature in the World Cup Finals, other than perhaps in the commentary box, pundit’s chair or newspaper columns of June 2018.
How can this be? How can such individuals not represent their countries on the biggest stage of all?
The answer, as we know, is that soccer is team game, where the collective talents of the players outweigh the individual skills of the maestro. The great sides do, naturally, incorporate such talents within their squad, but it is so often the case that a team that works together and combines well outperforms a side made up of more talented individuals who are less effective team players.

And the secret to success is possession of the football. Passing and the possession this helps to retain really are two of the most important parts of team play for a soccer team. This book will look at a number of ways both coaches and players can improve such aspects of their own side’s performance.

 

Here's What's Included In This Book:

• Teamwork - The Importance of Possession
• The Mentality of the Team
• The Importance of Possession
• Team Possession Drills
• Individual Possession Drills
• Team Passing Drills

About this title

Review

"My son plays soccer and has since he was about 5, now 13 going on 14 and I am always looking ways, as is he, to improve his game and some drills/exercises to work on plays and foot work! This soccer skills book by Chest Dugger, who also is a fan of soccer, played professionally himself and also coached, offers a variety of game situations and plays and lays them out how to practice and execute them. He talks about the importance of teamwork in possessing and passing the ball. There are also sections for individual and team passing drills. Each section and drill is provided with illustrations and directions on how to successfully complete the drills/exercises. My son benefited the most from the team passing drills as he is currently playing travel soccer and as a keeper, needs extra drills to work on foot work and being part of plays as a keeper. Most of the drills call for 4 players/persons to complete the drill, but just improvise and make it work, as we did only being 3 in the family. We were able to ask his friend to come down and help us out with those that we couldn't improvise on and needed that 4th body! This book is definitely recommended for anyone looking to improve their team or individual skills. This would be a really good coaching book as well for a coach who has a team! " - Michelle Holland

 

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Abiprod
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0648399540
• ISBN 13: 9780648399544
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76