Joseph Luxbacher

Teaching and Coaching Youth Soccer (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book, written by a former professional player and major college coach, gives a complete picture of the fundamentals of soccer - - and how they can best be taught to youth. The skills of soccer are not only described and illustrated with photographs, they are also shown in videos. If you are reading an e-book version of the book, merely click the video to see it. If you are reading the print version, you merely copy the address given in the text into your Internet-connected device.

The book not only describes and illustrates the skills needed for every level of soccer, but it gives you simple and intermediate drills to learn the skills. It then takes the reader to the team level of play, for both offense and defense.

Whether you are a youth coach, a parent who is helping his son or daughter to play and to understand the game, or a physical education teacher who is looking for the most effective progression of skills and their use in the game-- this book will be invaluable to you.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Total Health Publications
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386227809
• Artikelnr.: 53904857

Autorenporträt

Joseph Luxbacher, PhD, has been involved in the sport of soccer as a player and a coach for more than 30 years. A former professional player in the North American Soccer League (NASL) and Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL), he still holds the men' s soccer scoring records at the University of Pittsburgh for most career goals, most career points, and most goals scored in one game. He was the head men's soccer coach at the University of Pittsburgh from 1985 through 2015, when he retired from college coaching.

Luxbacher's college teams have won over 200 times at the Division I level, and he has twice been selected as "Big East Conference Soccer Coach of the Year." He has authored more than a dozen books and numerous articles on the topics of soccer and peak athletic performance. His various soccer books have sold more than 250,000 copies, and have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian, Greek, Malaysian, and Serbian.

Coach Luxbacher is an inductee into the Beadling Sports/Soccer Club Hall of Fame (1995), the Upper St. Clair High School Athletic Hall of Fame (2002), and the Western Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame (2005). He was selected as a "Letterman of Distinction" at the University of Pittsburgh in 2003. Luxbacher holds a doctorate in Health, Physical and Recreation Education, and has served as the Fitness Editor of Total Health Magazine. He also wrote a biweekly fitness Q & A for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the major newspaper in western Pennsylvania, for a number of years. Luxbacher has written and produced a DVD Coaching Series titled WINNING SOCCER for sportvideos.com. He lives in southwestern Pennsylvania with his wife Gail, daughter Eliza, son Travis, and dog Winston