Soccer Smart

In a world saturated with books about how to coach soccer, Dan Blank finally gives players a book on how to think it. Standing on two decades of collegiate coaching experience, Blank has cataloged soccer's most common mistakes and provides simple, connect-the-dots solutions to help players solve their soccer problems.

⚽ Play smarter. Train harder. Think like a champion. Whether you’re new to soccer or ready to level up your game, STRIKE is the ultimate soccer coaching book for young athletes, parents, and coaches. Perfect for ages 8–16, this comprehensive soccer training book helps players build real skills, confidence, and game intelligence. Designed to bridge the gap between soccer training for kids and soccer training for teens, this guide combines easy-to-follow drills, clear step-by-step techniques, and smart strategies used by pros. Whether you play for fun or in competition, STRIKE helps you...

The World Cup looks like a tournament of talent. But the biggest matches are often shaped long before kickoff. In The Invisible Tournament, Jonathan R. Whitestone takes readers beyond the goals, stars, stadiums, and scorelines to reveal the hidden systems behind football’s biggest global stage. Set against the historic scale of World Cup 2026, this book explores how nations, cities, geography, preparation, pressure, fan culture, and invisible advantages shape what the world eventually sees on the field. This is not an official guidebook, a trivia collection, or a simple team-by-team ...

Want to learn the number one thing holding you back from scoring more goals? Have you ever wanted to know the secrets to easily make a team in tryouts? Ever wonder why you get nervous before a tryout? Want to become the fastest player on your team? This audiobook lays out step-by-step what you should work on and the most important keys to being able to perform. This audiobook provides the structure to ensure that you are not just getting a little information in one spot and some knowledge in another without being able to understand the entire picture of how it all works together.

Are you ready to take your soccer game to the next level? Or just looking for ways to improve your understanding of the game? Consider the greatest players the beautiful game has ever seen. Pele and Puskas, Maradona - from the present time, Messi and Ronaldo.The likes of Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry, and Dennis Bergkamp, the great readers of the game such as Beckebauer and Bobby Moore and that devastating finisher, Gerd Muller. When we try to analyze what it is that made these players so successful and held in such regard, a number of similarities come to mind.

Ever wonder how players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, and Alex Morgan have been able to remain dominant for so long? Have you ever wanted to know the secret to getting a great night’s sleep every night? Do you sometimes feel like if you lost a bit of weight and gained some muscle that you would make more of a difference on the field? If any of these situations describe you, you are not alone. In this three-in-one bundled book, you get the following three books for the price of two.

Soccer for Newbies was created to help people who are new to the exciting world of soccer better understand the basic fundamentals of the sport. In this book, you will learn basic rules, regulations, team dynamics, and even some fun facts about soccer that will surely impress your friends and family. This book is great for new players, first-time coaches, weekend warriors, and people just looking to refresh their mind.