Full Description
Football Coaching: Putting the Theory into Practice is an essential guide for any student who is studying not just an undergraduate or postgraduate football coaching degree but any degree that has a focus on coaching. In addition to this, it is also a vital resource for any football coach, especially those working through their UEFA coaching qualifications. Football coaches constantly ask how academic research should inform applied coaching practice and in turn how coaches should apply academic research into their professional activities. This book presents answers to these questions by discussing the key academic research that is integral to coaching practice. It will also provide actual specific examples that demonstrate how these theories can be applied within the coaching environment and more specifically within the coaching practice of a football coach. It is written by contributors, with expertise as academics within higher education, whilst also having years of experience working at the highest level within the industry. Football Coaching: Putting the Theory into Practice is key reading for all students on any coaching degree, especially those studying football coaching, as well as benefitting any football coach and coaches from other sports, specifically coaches from sports that are classified as invasion games.
Contents
SECTION I
The Principles of Coaching
1 Coaching Pedagogy
JAMES MAYLEY
2 Understanding and Creating Your Own Coaching Philosophy
MATT GRAHAM
3 Creating an Optimal Coaching Environment for Learning
JAMES MAYLEY
SECTION II
Understanding Coaching Practice
4 Coaching in the Foundation Phase
NEIL SCOTT AND ANDREW O. TRIGGS
5 Coaching in the Youth Development Phase
NOEL DEMPSEY AND ROB CARLISLE
6 Coaching Within the Professional Development Phase
MICHAL PUJDAK
7 Goalkeeper Coaching
JAMES MAYLEY
SECTION III
The Game Model Approach
8 Origins of the Game Model
MIKE WALSH
9 An Alternative Game Model Approach
MIKE WALSH
10 How to Build an Alternative Game Model
MIKE WALSH
11 Implementing Tactical Periodisation and a Game Model
WAYNE GOODISON
SECTION IV
Wider Player Support
12 Using Performance Analysis to Improve Performance
CLAIRE MULVENNA AND PATRICK OXENHAM
13 Supporting Individual Development (Technical)
CARL WILD
14 Supporting Individual Development (Psychology)
DAN TRAFFORD
SECTION V
Coach Development: A Commitment to Lifelong Learning
15 Reflective Practice
MATT GRAHAM
16 Mentoring
CARL WILD
17 Coach Development
DEAN HUGHES AND STACY HUGHES
