Product Description

Master each key skill on the soccer field with Soccer: Steps to Success. This comprehensive guide contains progressive instruction for optimal learning of individual techniques and team tactics.

Improve your skills in dribbling, passing, receiving, shooting, defending, tackling, heading, and goalkeeping with the help of clear, detailed descriptions and accompanying illustrations of all fundamental techniques and variations. Then learn how and when to apply those skills in game situations, such as winning one-on-one matchups or attacking and defending individually or as part of a team. More than 155 drills hone your skills and gauge your readiness to move on to the next step through a clear, easy-to-follow scoring system.

Become a complete player able to perform a variety of skills and execute basic tactics consistently and successfully. Soccer: Steps to Success has helped more than 80,000 players like you take their game to a much higher level.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #362512 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780736054355
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review

“Many soccer coaching and tactics books do not give the level of depth needed for developing good tactical awareness for players aged 12 to 18. I have found that your series of books is excellent; specifically, I have used Soccer: Steps to Success to develop training session plans with great success from the under-sixes through the under-fourteens.”

Darren K. Rogers
AYSO Region 335 Assistant Commissioner & Referee Administrator
Morristown, TN

From the Publisher
"I enjoyed this book immensely. It was simple to read and very clear in the description of each soccer activity. Coach Luxbacher has created a book that coaches (and players) at all levels can easily use." Tom Goodman National director of coaching education, United States Youth Soccer

About the Author
Joe Luxbacher, PhD, has more than 30 years of experience playing and coaching soccer at all levels. A former professional soccer player for the North American Soccer League, American Soccer League, and Major Indoor Soccer League, he is the head men’s soccer coach at the University of Pittsburgh, a position he has held since 1984.

Widely respected by soccer coaches and players alike, Luxbacher has earned an "A" coaching license from the United States Soccer Federation. He was named Big East Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1992 and 1995 and was selected for the Beading Soccer Club Hall of Fame in 1995. Along with authoring nine books, including Attacking Soccer, The Soccer Goalkeeper, and Soccer Practice Games, he has written more than 70 magazine articles on sport- and fitness-related topics.

Luxbacher earned his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1985 with a specialization in physical education and management and administration of athletics. Since 1978 he has served as the director and president of Keystone Soccer Kamps and more recently the Shoot to Score Soccer Academy, helping hundreds of young people each year master the fundamentals of the game.

Joe, his wife, Gail, and their children, Eliza and Travis, live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where they enjoy hiking, bicycling, and other outdoor activities.

Customer Reviews

An valuable resource for any level player or coach
Joseph Luxbacher's **Soccer: Steps to Success** provides soccer players of all levels the tools needed to become a better player. Well written and concise, Dr. Luxbacher not only offers the reader the steps to achieve success, but also (and perhaps more importantly), unlike most instructional books, diagnoses frequent errors and provides the steps to overcome them. The book covers all aspects of play and details dozens of practice games designed to improve any soccer players ability.

A great read for any player or coach who wishes to improve their understanding of the game and their skills or the skills of their team.