5 Soccer/Football related eBooks

Top 25 Soccer Skills, Tips, and Tricks by Jeff Savage
Soccer around the World: A Cultural Guide to the World's Favorite Sport by Charles Parrish, John Nauright
The Soccer Games and Drills Compendium: 350 Smart and Practical Games to Form Intelligent Players - for All Levels by Fabian Seeger
Soccer Goalkeeper Training: The Comprehensive Guide by Tony Englund, John Pascarella
A League of Their Own: The Secrets of Club Soccer Champions by Steffen Siebert

Top 25 Soccer Skills, Tips, and Tricks by Jeff Savage
English | July 1, 2011 | ISBN: 1598453599, 0766038602 | EPUB | 48 pages | 8.7 MB
Would you like to become an all-star goal scorer or a world-class defender? Or maybe you just want to learn a few new skills? TOP 25 SOCCER SKILLS, TIPS, AND TRICKS has a little bit of everything for all young soccer players. From step-by-step instructions for basic passing and shooting to more advanced tricks to try against your friends, author Jeff Savage provides many ways to improve your game and have fun at the same time!

Soccer around the World: A Cultural Guide to the World's Favorite Sport by Charles Parrish, John Nauright
English | April 21st, 2014 | ISBN: 1610693027 | 433 pages | PDF | 22.65 MB
Two leading sports authorities explore the culture of soccer around the world, considering the sport as a means to better understand a society's past, present, and future.
• Includes both men's and women's soccer
• Features lists of winners of World Cups, regional confederations cups, and Olympic Games
• Provides sidebars of interesting facts and photos to supplement the text
• Offers a multi-disciplinary perspective from across geography, social studies, world cultures, and anthropology

The Soccer Games and Drills Compendium: 350 Smart and Practical Games to Form Intelligent Players - for All Levels by Fabian Seeger
2017 | ISBN: 1782551042 | English | 364 pages | PDF | 62 MB
Meyer & Meyer Premium the next level of instructional sports literature with high-quality, full-color books. The Soccer Games and Drills Compendium is a comprehensive compilation of 350 realistic drills and games that facilitate high-quality design and quick implementation of modern soccer training. The many drills are divided into technical, tactical, and fitness-based focus areas. Individual focus areas cover basic training content, such as passing, dribbling, shots on goal, feints, juggling, and 1-on-1 situations, followed by focus areas with differentiated and advanced content, such as transitioning and reacting, chaos and action, game start variations, active defense, tournaments, and topics on tactical training. In addition, this book includes exercises for soccer-specific speed training, athletic and endurance training, indoor training, goalkeeper training, and team building. In this compendium you will find a wide variety of soccer specific training exercises, and the graphics and practice oriented design make it an optimal resource for taking effective training content and implementing it on the field. The many variations included with the drills and games make this compilation ideal for training players at all performance levels and age groups.

Soccer Goalkeeper Training: The Comprehensive Guide by Tony Englund, John Pascarella
2017 | ISBN: 1782551077 | English | 296 pages | PDF | 32 MB
In Soccer Goalkeeper Training the authors explain and show through detailed photos and coaching points the physical and technical skills required for novice goalkeepers to improve their current level with easy to follow progressions. Another topic is how to make decisions in tactical situations on the soccer field, for example using communication as a tool for organizing the field player of one s team. The authors also delve into the more advanced and scientific areas of periodization and mental preparation used by the most accomplished goalkeepers in Major League Soccer and the US National Team to achieve ultimate success at the highest levels of the game. Hereby, some psychological aspects covered by the book are the relationship between goalkeepers and their coaches and giving feedback. Also, readers will find a training guide which is divided into exercises by various themes. Whether you are an aspiring young goalkeeper or a more advanced collegiate player, regardless of the level of goalkeeper you currently coach, Soccer Goalkeeper Training will have something to help bring out the best in you and your most important player.
The book includes a foreword by Daryl Shore, Director of Goalkeeping, Real Salt Lake (MLS).

A League of Their Own: The Secrets of Club Soccer Champions by Steffen Siebert
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1782551050, 9781782551058, B01N9B2TRF | 250 Pages | PDF | 21.14 MB
A League of Their Own provides readers with a closer look at the FIFA Club World Champions, such as FC Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Manchester City. Readers will catch a glimpse into the history of these clubs while also learning about the individual philosophies of some of the top coaches. This book discusses different tactical philosophies as well as how these tactical approaches have been adjusted by some of soccer's greatest coaches, such as Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho, Luis Enrique, and Louis van Gaal. Finally, readers will be taken through case studies of each individual team with a step-by-step analysis of how these tactical setups are successful and how they can be exploited. Each case study will provide a discussion of how each team sets up when in attack, defending, and in transition.Not only addressing how and why these tactical setups are powerful, this book also breaks down and specifies just how lesser teams can exploit the subtle weaknesses by adjusting their attacking, defending, and transition strategies. Winning the tactical battle on the pitch creates endless possibilities, and perhaps evens the playing field to continue intrigue of the game.