Before You Raise Your Voice: Lessons from the Youth Soccer Field on Attention, Behavior, and Discipline - Softcover

Aliakbari, Amir Parsa

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798178140390

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Youth soccer can change in seconds. One player stops listening. Two start arguing. Someone is in tears. A group begins to drift.

Before You Raise Your Voice is about what to do in those moments.

Drawing on years of coaching young players, Amir Parsa Aliakbari shares practical lessons from the situations coaches see again and again on the field—when attention disappears, emotions rise, one player pulls the group off task, or the coach has only a few seconds to decide what to say next.

Inside, you’ll find practical ways to:

• get a whole group’s attention quickly
• respond to the joker, the arguer, and the player who ignores instructions
• handle tears, anger, frustration, and conflict
• reset a drifting practice without punishing everyone
• use short, natural language that works on the field
• correct behavior without labeling the child

Written especially for volunteer, recreational, and developing youth coaches, this is not a book about formations or complicated tactics. It is a field guide for the moments that can make coaching young players difficult—and the small changes that can make practice calmer, clearer, and more productive.

You don’t have to be louder to be more effective.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798178140390
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80