Select Soccer Drills

America's best soccer coaches share their favorite drills with you in Select Soccer Drills. Widely known soccer coaches John Reeves and Malcolm Simon have compiled 125 drills from successful male and female coaches--national champions, coaches of the year, national and international leaders. The result is a convenient, easy-to-use guide for every coach, whether you're a novice or a seasoned pro.

Select Soccer Drills gives you a wealth of new ideas to help keep practices productive and players motivated, whether you're supplementing your current drills or building a complete program. The 125 drills cover every aspect of the game, and many include variations that you can use to prepare for different situations or to adapt the difficulty to your players' abilities.

The drills develop not only your players' basic skills, but also their ability to handle real game situations. These drills will help them start to think like soccer players.

Select Soccer Drills is easy for coaches from youth to college leagues to use. Each drill is fully diagrammed and presented in an easy-to-read manner that shows you at a glance

* what skills or movements are emphasized,

* the recommended playing area,

* how many players are needed, and

* what equipment is necessary.

Plus, the book's unique Drill Finder chart makes it fast and easy to find exactly the drills you need to emphasize important skills.

Every coach, teacher, and camp director will want a copy of Select Soccer Drills. It's an invaluable reference that makes it easy for you to plan practices and helps you develop strong, well-rounded players.

John Reeves and Malcolm Simon combine more than 50 years of soccer coaching expertise in their newest coach's guide, Select Soccer Drills. Two of America's top coaches, Reeves and Simon are the editors of two previous Leisure Press soccer books, Coaches Collection of Soccer Drills and The Soccer Games Book.

John Reeves has been coaching soccer since 1961 at both the youth and collegiate levels. Currently the director of the Division of Physical Education and Athletics for the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Reeves is a member of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and is also past-president of the Intercollegiate Soccer Association of America. He earned his doctoral degree in 1983 from Columbia University.

Malcolm Simon is the director of physical education and athletics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has coached soccer, basketball, tennis, and volleyball in college, camp, and YMCA settings since 1954. He coached the 1960 NAIA national champions and the 1961 runners-up. Sixteen of his players have been named All-Americans, and five have gone on to play professional soccer nationally and internationally, including Hernan "Chico" Borja. Simon is a member of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.