This book is a collection of games, drills, and individual exercises for soccer.
I found it to be good, but not great.
Pros:- Well organized by skill developed (ball control, shooting, etc)- Description of each exercise includes not only the workings of the exercise, but also the materials (balls, cones, etc) needed, and their estimated difficulty- [...]
The concept sounds great. Kids, especially boys, like to compete. If you give them a drill or game that has no way to keep score, it is hard for them to keep their intensity. When there is a way to keep score and compete, you will get the intensity needed to sharpen their skills. Unfortunately, [...]
Yes, it’s got a handful of useful drills. The diagrams are good, but the explanations are so confusingly worded that even they are not very effective.
Most importantly, only a short part of the book is actually about soccer FITNESS (ie conditioning). Those parts deal mainly with circuit training, and they assume you have access to [...]