Soccer Awareness by Wayne Harrison
Play the Barcelona Way This follow up to Harrison's hugely popular Recognizing the Moment to Play is 400+ pages of unique insight into training players to think and make decisions quickly both on and off the ball. Chock full of exercises with clear illustrations, coaching points and progressions, this is a very usable coaching book. Also includes Wayne's revolutionary Continuums of Development Model of player assessment, which will help you identify your players' strengths and weaknesses and target problem areas in your training sessions.
Wayne has spent many years perfecting his Football Coaching and Training Methodology and is now Co-Owner of a developmental training company Soccer Awareness Elite Academy based in San Diego, California. Wayne has a wealth of knowledge at the highest levels of the game both as a professional player; having played for Blackpool and Sheffield Wednesday Football Clubs in England and Oulu Palloseura in the Finnish Premier league; and a professional coach having been the Director of Coaching of Youth Development for Blackpool amongst other coaching positions. He has also represented Great Britain as a player in the World Student Games in Mexico. A former Academy Director at Blackpool Football Club in the English Championship League, he is a bestselling author who currently has 12 Coaching books to his name as well as authoring many articles for World Class Coaching and Soccer Journal Magazines in the United States and Insight Magazine in England and he has many videos on soccer development. He was also more recently the Director of Coaching for the Youth Academy of Al Ain Football Club in the United Arab Emirates, one of the most famous and prestigious professional football club in the Middle East and Asian Regions of the World and former Asian Cup Winners. During his 2 year spell, as their DOC in charge of Youth Al Ain won 7 National Youth Championships and were both the most successful professional academy in the country; and were also officially acclaimed as the most professionally developed academy by the renowned Marco Monte of Inter Milan, the Consultant for the Abu Dhabi Sports Council. Mr. Monte compared the academy Wayne developed as the closest to the best European academies he has experienced in his work. High praise indeed. He holds the prestigious UEFA A License, and the NSCAA Premier Diploma, as well as an English Bachelors Degree in Applied Physiology and Sports Psychology. Having achieved the Premier Diploma he is now able to educate as a Staff Coach with the NSCAA. He is also a successful football clinician for the education of coaches, presenting at coaching symposiums worldwide, including the NSCAA Convention, the World Class Coaching International Seminar, the Reedswain Soccer Coaches' Super Clinic and many State Symposiums throughout the United States.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781591641094 |
| ISBN 10 | 1591641098 |
| Title | Soccer Awareness |
| Author | Wayne Harrison |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Reedswain, Incorporated |
| Year published | 2012-07-16 |
| Number of pages | 410 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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