Sports Soccer

Soccer has been America's Sport of the Future since 1972. The Men in Blazers are two English-born, soccer-obsessed broadcasters who have savored the dizzying growth of the game along with millions of Americans, as if it was a rollicking, sporting telenovela playing out in real life. Written in such a way that fully immerses Americans in the history and culture of the world's game, their Encyclopedia Blazertannica relives the careers of such greats such as George Best, Maradona, Beckham...and Alexi Lalas.

Offering insight to coaches, players, and supporters, young and old, and providing drills and analysis that can both help us to better understand the game and produce higher quality attack moves, this book examines offensive plays in the exciting sport of soccer.

How to become a better soccer player with these 10 steps.

Ten tips for soccer.

How defenses think and react during a game is not easily understood...or is it? Through countless hours of practice, training, and experience, soccer's elite have shown patterns of skills that lead to predictable outcomes - more goals, more assists, and more wins! The current soccer books on the market teach about general knowledge of infrequent game situations without the steps to score. This audiobook is for players who need the tips, tricks, tweaks, and techniques to reach 10 times the goals they score in a season.

In Soccer Passing & Receiving, there are well over 100 tips on how to pass and receive a pass with correct form, knowing what to do before receiving a pass, how to effectively shield the ball, and insights on effective crossing.

Is your soccer team getting a lot of chances but unable to score? Or you are personally unable to score goals as a striker? Take your soccer shooting skills to the next level with our audiobook. If you do not shoot, you cannot score. That lesson must be instilled into players right from the first time they kick a ball. Of course, we want every player to develop game awareness, to know when a pass is the best option, but if players become concerned about criticism if they shoot and miss, then they will be in a team that never scores. And therefore, on a team that never wins.

Have you ever wanted to know the secret to getting a great night’s sleep every night? Ever wonder what top soccer players do to get a restful night’s sleep before a big match? Want to learn the number one thing that is holding you back from waking well-rested and full of energy each day? Improving your sleeping takes time to find the key things that work best for you. However, this audiobook will reduce your time to discover those things that will ensure you become the most energetic player. This audiobook’s main aim is to provide help with important areas of sleeping.

In the middle-grade story, Soccer Is Everything, Pedro and Esperanza’s love of soccer brings frustration as their poor ocean-side town in Mexico has little opportunity for their talents. Alejandro Vargas, fresh from an unfair prison sentence, gives them opportunity and hope as he forms the first team in the town’s new league. Losing is not in his playbook, and he will accept only those players willing to give the team their all. But a girl on an all-boys team is not in coach’s playbook either. Pedro’s earlier experience has shown him not to bypass a girl’s talent.

Are you a skilled soccer player who can't make it big? Is it because of your lack of physical and mental fitness? Soccer Fitness provides an excellent way to help with soccer fitness for players and coaches. It offers examples of ways in which players can enhance their endurance for playing soccer and looks at the kind of fitness specifically needed for playing soccer at the highest level.

Whether known as football or, as in the US, soccer; the ‘beautiful game’ is the most popular sport in the world. The best players earn millions of dollars per year, and the greatest clubs are icons in their regions. Children love putting down a couple of jerseys and having a kick around. Globally, it is the team sport that has the greatest public participation and, at the highest level - such as the World Cup, top leagues and cup finals - matches are watched live by tens of thousands of cheering fans.

This audiobook will explain what soccer analytics are and how they work in a game. It will analyze different parts of play during a game and provide ideas and details around how analytics can improve a team during various passages of play.

Are you looking to improve your soccer skills and get a stronger team? This audiobook is the answer to your questions. This audiobook will look at a number of ways both coaches and players can improve such aspects of their own side’s performance.

Meulensteen's story begins in a provincial region of Holland; a student of the game, René explains how he fought through red tape and bureaucracy to establish himself as a coach with principles he firmly believed in, and how those visionary methods saw him land a remarkable position at the world's biggest club, overseeing the technical development of their most precious department—the youth system.

Alimenta la pasión de tu hijo por el fútbol con este dinámico dúo de biografías, ¡un imprescindible para niños de 9 a 12 años que sueñan con marcar goles como sus ídolos! Presentamos "Cristiano Ronaldo y Lionel Messi: Los Chicos que Soñaron con Ser Campeones", un libro único 2 en 1 que despliega las increíbles trayectorias de los dos mejores jugadores de fútbol de todos los tiempos.

¿Estás buscando un libro infantil inspirador y atractivo que celebra la vida de uno de los mejores jugadores de fútbol de todos los tiempos? ¡No busques más allá de "Lionel Messi: el niño que soñó con ser campeón"! Este libro del autor bestseller Michael Langdon cuenta la increíble historia de Lionel Messi, desde sus humildes comienzos en Argentina hasta su ascenso como superestrella del fútbol mundial.

Es gibt einen Kodex unter Hooligans? Absolut! Auch wenn man dies als Außenstehender gar nicht vermuten sollte, so lässt uns der "Biniak" an seinen Erlebnissen mit den Cologne Streetfighters teilhaben und beweist: Hooligans - zumindest die meisten - sind eigentlich ganz nette Kerle. So lernen wir aber nicht nur die Hooligan-Szene selbst kennen, sondern auch die wiederkehrend anwesenden Polizisten, die Fußballvereine, die Fans und vor allem: die Menschlichkeit zwischen all diesen Gruppen, die man hier wohl am wenigsten erwartet hätte. Zwischen amüsanten Anekdoten der WM '98 und EM '08.

Teamgeist, Freundschaft und ein Hauch Magie – die Zauberkicker verwandeln gemeinsam jeden Schuss zum Tor. Ben ist völlig überrumpelt, als er plötzlich zur Probewoche ins Fußballinternat Tannwald eingeladen wird. Leistungstraining mit den besten Nachwuchstalenten des Landes! Dabei wärmt er bei seiner Dorfmannschaft in letzter Zeit dauernd die Bank. Wie soll er sich bloß gegen die starke Konkurrenz beweisen? Da kann nur noch ein Wunder helfen.

vTeamgeist, Freundschaft und ein Hauch Magie – die Zauberkicker verwandeln gemeinsam jeden Schuss zum Tor. Sportlichkeit und Fairness scheinen nicht allen so wichtig zu sein wie Ben, Robin und ihrer neuen Freundin Mika, einer blitzschnellen Stürmerin. Zumindest hält das magische Maskottchen Pelé zu Ben und unterstützt ihn in seiner Probezeit im Fußballinternat. Doch gegen fiese Gegenspieler und miese Wirtschaftsbosse hilft selbst Maskottchenmagie nicht. Ist vielleicht sogar das Internat in Gefahr?

It's the proudest moment of Jack's life – his debut as a professional footballer. Now he has a chance to achieve his dream of playing for his country. But it's 1914 and the world is at war. Talk of sportsmen's cowardice leads to the formation of a Footballers' Battalion and Jack has little choice but to join up. The promise of a Cup in Flanders offers a glimmer of hope, but Jack and his teammates will have to survive a waking nightmare if they are ever to play again.