Until you’ve consumed all of the best Soccer books, can you even claim to be a true fan?
1. Soccer Activity Book: For Kids Aged 6-12 (2018)
Created for boys and girls who love soccer by education expert and soccer fan, The Future Teacher, this fantastically-fun soccer activity book will with a wide variety of soccer themed fun. #17,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #852 in Children’s Activity Books (Books) #5 in Children’s Soccer Books (Books) Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?…
2. 1000 Football Clubs: Teams, Stadiums, and Legends of the Beautiful Game (2016)
The most in-depth guide to soccer clubs around the world, featuring 1,000 illustrations and more than 1,000 teams from 100 countries. This superbly illustrated volume is the fan’s most comprehensive insight into 1,000 football clubs (a.k.a., soccer teams), both professional and collegiate, from every continent, illustrating each club’s history and what it means to support their team. Included are key details from both men’s and women’s leagues, such as team colors, shirt designs, coats of arms, mottos, club songs, stadium details, legendary players, impactful coaches, the most memorable…
3. Soccer Smarts: 75 Skills, Tactics & Mental Exercises to Improve Your Game (2018)
Gain the competitive edge you need to win with expert coaching, skills, and strategies from Soccer Smarts.To reach your full potential as a soccer player, you need to know the right tactics, understand when to use them, and have the skills to carry them out. Soccer Smarts delivers the professional coaching you need to do just that. Written for intermediate soccer players and above, Soccer Smarts presents 75 innovative skills, tactics, and mental exercises to help you become a complete soccer player, inside and out.Soccer Smarts offers access to the…
4. National Geographic Kids Everything Soccer: Score Tons of Photos, Facts, and Fun (2014)
Score! Finally, a book that explains everything about soccer — a favorite team sport played by millions of kids around the globe. From patches of dirt to gleaming turf, soccer is a game for all. Meet soccer’s superstars. Learn the rules. Get kitted up, get out on the field, and show off your fancy footwork. Each book in the National Geographic Kids Everything series has more than 100 pictures, an explorer’s corner with from-the-field anecdotes and tips, fun facts throughout, maps and infographics, an illustrated…
5. Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World’s Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game (2019)
Masters of Modern Soccer is the definitive thinking fan’s guide to modern soccer. For a supporter of any team, from the U.S. national teams to Manchester United, or any competition, from Mexico’s Liga MX to the World Cup, this book reveals what players and managers are thinking before, during, and after games and delivers a true behind-the-scenes perspective on the inner workings of the sport’s brightest minds. America’s premier soccer journalist, Grant Wahl, follows world-class players from across the globe examining how they do their jobs. This access imbues Masters of Modern Soccer with deep insight from the…
6. Soccer Smarts for Kids: 60 Skills, Strategies, and Secrets (2016)
“Coach Latham has put one in the back of the net with a book that players, parents, and coaches will find useful. I recommend it for all soccer lovers.” The only soccer book for players ages 11 to 15 combining expert advice with essential soccer techniques for improving their skills. As a youth soccer coach for more than twenty years, Coach Andrew Latham sets kids up for success in Soccer Smarts for Kids with his no-fluff, easy-to-understand strategies and cover-to-cover tips―from goal setting and staying fit to pre-game prep and mental motivation. Coach Latham preps young players to be their best by sharing…
7. Soccer Anatomy (2011)
Take an inside look at the world’s most popular sport. Soccer Anatomy will show you how to elevate your game by increasing strength, speed, and agility for more accurate passes and powerful shots. Soccer Anatomy includes 79 exercises, each with step-by-step descriptions and full-color anatomical illustrations highlighting muscles in action. SoccerAnatomy goes beyond exercises by placing you on the pitch and in the game. Illustrations of the active muscles involved in kicking, heading, tackling, and diving show you how each exercise is fundamentally linked to soccer performance. From attacking to…
8. SOCCER: A Spectator’s Guide (2010)
This book is for all those who find themselves at soccer games and not fully understanding what’s going on. It clearly explains the “beautiful game” so that none of the excitement is missed. It spells out what each player at each position is supposed to do, describes the skills and talents needed to perform well, and lays out the basic offensive and defensive strategies teams employ to secure a win. Books currently available on soccer focus on how to play or how to coach the game. This is the only book written for those watching a game. #76,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #65…
9. Youth Soccer Drills (2014)
Youth Soccer Drills is your indispensable tool for coaching beginning to intermediate soccer players ages 5 to 12. Rely on 100 drills and games to make practices more fun and productive. Through these practice activities, even novice coaches will soon have young players mastering the essentials of spacing, dribbling, passing, shooting, and heading. Use the comprehensive drill finder to quickly find the perfect drill by skills you want to develop. Sample practice plans for 5- to 6-year-olds, 7- to 8-year-olds, 9- to 10-year-olds, and 11- to 12-year-olds are ready to take straight…
10. My First Soccer Game (2016)
Simple text and photographs help young readers learn all about playing soccer in this Pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read.It’s the first day of soccer practice, and it’s going to be great! In this Pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read by Alyssa Satin Capucilli, beginning readers will learn that soccer players wear cleats, do warm ups, and try to kick the ball into the goal. Score! The best part about soccer is being on a team and making new friends. Young readers getting ready to hit the field will love seeing photographs of kids their age playing soccer in this adorable introduction to the sport!…
11. The Complete Guide to Coaching Soccer Systems and Tactics (2003)
Covers the principles of attack and defense and all major modern systems of play. #346,371 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #674 in Sports Training (Books) #104 in Soccer Coaching (Books) #362 in Soccer (Books) Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?…
12. The Berenstain Bears Get Their Kicks (1998)
Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book® from Stan and Jan Berenstain. Brother and Sister love to play sports, so when Mama becomes the official soccer mom, Papa feels a bit left out. Will Papa be able to find a way to cheer on the team, or will he be sitting on the sidelines? Includes over 50 bonus stickers! #20,084 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #32 in Children’s Peer Pressure Books #155 in Children’s Bear Books (Books) #170 in Children’s Parents Books Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?…
13. Soccer Positions: A-Step-by-Step Guide about Each Player on a Team (Understand Soccer) (2019)
Well, if any of these situations describe you, you are not alone. Coaches of soccer are decent at assigning positions such as goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, and forward in addition to whether that player should be on the left side, right side, or center of the field. Sadly, coaches do not often teach the more advanced positions and what each player in that role must do. It is all well and good if your team is consistently winning and outperforming the other team. However, if your team is not always winning by a few goals, the positioning could be…
Best Soccer Books That You Need
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All Heart: My Dedication and Determination to Become One of Soccer’s Best
Author(s): Carli Lloyd, Wayne Coffey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Year: 6 Dec 2016, Size: 4 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2389655
When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World
Author(s): Carli Lloyd, Wayne Coffey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Year: 26 Sept 2016, Size: 27 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2389657
Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics, 2nd Edition
Author(s): Gabriel Kuhn, Boff Whalley
Publisher: PM Press, Year: 2019, Size: 6 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2308236
The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer
Author(s): Caitlin Murray
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Year: 2019, Size: 17 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2352345
Computational Metrics for Soccer Analysis: Connecting the dots
Author(s): Filipe Manuel Clemente et al.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2018, Size: 3 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2152858
Continuous Fuzzy Evaluation Methods: A Novel Tool for the Analysis and Decision Making in Football (or Soccer) Matches: A New Innovative Proposal to FIFA & UEFA
Author(s): Ranjit Biswas
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2018, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2154027
Longevity Secret ? Not, and Never Pay To Watch Soccer at TV, Just Play Soccer Two Times A Week
Author(s): coll.
Publisher: Conference Football is Medicine, Year: 2018, Size: 3 Mb, Download: zip
ID: 2176626
Data Analytics in Professional Soccer: Performance Analysis Based on Spatiotemporal Tracking Data
Author(s): Daniel Link
Publisher: Springer Vieweg, Year: 2018, Size: 4 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2204388
The Away Game: The Epic Search for Soccer’s Next Superstars
Author(s): Sebastian Abbot
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Year: 2018, Size: 19 Mb, Download: azw3
ID: 2213712
Masters of Modern Soccer
Author(s): Grant Wahl
Publisher: Crown Archetype, Year: 2018, Size: 10 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2215996
Please note that this booklist is not errorless. Some books are really best-sellers according to USA Today, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.