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The Civil Rights era is the backdrop to this story of a black college soccer team who played their hearts out to overcome racial injustice in 1970s USA. Stocked with some of the best Caribbean and African players of the era, the Howard University Bison went on to win two national championships under the martial discipline of Coach Lincoln Tiger Phillips. The Tiger made history by becoming the first college coach to win an NCAA championship for a Historically...
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Regarded in NFL circles as one of the nation's leading independent draft analysts, spending thousands of hours evaluating talent each season, Nolan Nawrocki's vast network of contacts allows him to gather intelligence regarding NFL prospects that is unparalleled in the industry. His annual book contains in-depth information on some 350 players eligible for the draft, with the history, strengths, and weaknesses of each player clearly documented. Nawrocki...
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This is a mental training guide, a meditation, for success in soccer. Mental training is an indispensable part of every team's and player's preparation in today's game. It plays a big role in confidence and performance on the field. Numerous studies have been conducted by sports psychologists and applied by top professional clubs, coaches and players worldwide. This program is unique, because it combines many principles and researches in the arena...
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A GAME-CHANGING AND FASCINATING BOOK ON HOW TO USE WISDOM FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO CREATE A LASTING, POWERFUL SOCCER TEAM, BY ONE OF THE SPORT'S MOST ICONIC AND EFFECTIVE COACHES
Jurgen Klinsmann, head coach of the U.S. men's national soccer team, has become a household name after the United States' unprecedentedly strong run at the 2014 World Cup. Klinsmann's reputation is that of a maverick, of an unconventional leader who isn't afraid to challenge...
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Get the Summary of Mike Krzyzewski's Leading with the Heart in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Leading with the Heart" by Mike Krzyzewski is a reflection on the leadership principles that guided his tenure as Duke University's basketball coach. Krzyzewski's philosophy centers on character, teamwork, academic integrity, and personal growth. He emphasizes commitment, honesty, and collective responsibility, fostering...
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In the early days of professional football, coaches were little more than on-field captains who also ran practices-if there was time for practice. The emergence of post-graduate football and the coaching profession from 1920 to 1950 was crucial to the evolution of the game, and both developed and rose in stature over this critical period in the history of football.
In Pioneer Coaches of the NFL: Shaping the Game in the Days of Leather Helmets and...
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Whoever claims winning isn't everything obviously has not spoken with an athletic coach.
Coaching the Mental Game offers coaches of all sports a definitive volume for effectively understanding an athlete's mental awareness, which in turn will help drive success. Author H. A. Dorfman details appropriate coaching strategies aimed at perfecting the player's mental approach to performance.
Coaching the Mental Game will become the Bible for coaches who...
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Coaches: Win more games by teaching your players the fundamental skills, intangibles and finer points of the game that other coaches don't know. Help your players eliminate costly turnovers by learning to read the defense, score more points by fine tuning your fast break and improve your offensive attack skills.
Players: Take your game to another level by learning the skills and details of the game the elite players know. Learn how character issues...
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In soccer, most goals are, scored with your feet. But, as Johan Cruyff noted, soccer is fundamentally "a game you play with your brain." Technical skills are essential tools, to be sure, but (like any tools) they are useless without a clear understanding of how, when, and why to apply them.
In Play with Your Brain, Travis Norsen helps you develop your soccer brain by providing a deep and detailed explanation of some of the game's basic principles....
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In the Baseball Gods are Real, I take my readers for another ride as I continue on my spiritual path. I describe how the daily practice of yoga and meditation, and a vegan diet, helped me out of a midlife crisis and led me to a new, better direction in my life, with baseball as my guide.
This book chronicles the path of Jon Perrin, my good friend and colleague at Satya Investment Management, the asset management firm I founded several years ago. I...
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After over two decades of coaching youth sports, Jason is sharing some of the secrets of success. This book will take you from pre-season to post-season, helping you survive and enjoy your volunteer time. Focusing on the reason we are volunteering, our kids, you'll walk into practices and games with more confidence that you are bringing value to their time. Although this is geared toward parents who are fairly new to coaching (or new to coaching flag...
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El baloncesto goza de gran aceptación entre los jóvenes. Muchas entidades y centros deportivos organizan cursos y sesiones de entrenamiento en horas extraescolares. Este manual presenta todo cuanto debe saber un entrenador para conseguir que su equipo juegue con soltura y mejore constantemente su calidad. Le enseña todo lo necesario acerca de la preparación física, la programación de las sesiones de entrenamiento, los ejercicios más eficaces,...
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Basketball was originally designed to be a team game, but today's players are growing up in a culture that focuses on the individual. In Teamwork, Mike Huff calls coaches and athletes to return to basketball's essence, by focusing on The 7 Essentials of Teamwork: communication, leadership, humility, roles, team spirit, a winning attitude, and collective responsibility. The lessons in this book will enable coaches to teach life lessons that help players...
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The challenge for today's modern coach is to push players without risking burnout, inspire them without bullying, and discipline players without constantly yelling. While no two coaches have the exact same approach to motivating their team, there are certain leadership skills coaches can develop to get the most out of their team, no matter the sport or the skill level.
In The Art of Motivation for Team Sports: A Guide for Coaches, Jim Hinkson provides...
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A tribute to the late Dean Smith, called a "coaching legend" by the Basketball Hall of Fame. When he retired as North Carolina's basketball coach in 1997, Dean Smith was the winningest coach in NCAA Division I men's basketball history, leading the Tar Heels to an unprecedented 879 wins in a career that began in 1961. By 2015, when Smith passed away at the age of 83, the coach had become something of a living legend. Beloved by fans and players alike,...
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"Considered the bible of scouting techniques" according to the Los Angeles Times, Football Scouting Methods explains the basic scouting strategies and insights of author Steve Belichick. He was widely viewed as the ablest football scout of his time and coached at the U.S. Naval Academy for 33 years; his son is New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, a three-time Super Bowl winner. When Steve Belichick died in November 2005, the New York Times headline...
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An aspiring baseball catcher could do himself no greater favor than acquiring this manual. Whereas the techniques of hitting, pitching, and other baseball positions are well covered by valuable instruction books, the techniques of catching arguably the most difficult and most crucial position of all have not been covered well at all.
Brent Mayne's The Art of Catching: The Secrets and Techniques of Baseball s Most Demanding Position changes all that...
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Zero is a young talented baseball player who demonstrates his dedication for his own self-improvement, along with helping his friends and teammates improve by always learning better ways to train and exercise. Zero learns and demonstrates real-life safe and effective ways to exercise his body to improve his health and performance for playing the game he loves: baseball. The exercises included in this book are appropriate for all ages and for all types...
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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics presents the Relative Performance Grading (RPG) system of statistical measures, which ends all arguments over how good college football teams are relative to one another. Using grammar school mathematics and a dash of ingenious reasoning, Mike Nemeth exposes the need for, and then invents, a new set of statistical measures to explain how and why one team wins and another loses a college football game. The new statistics...
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This book, by design, is intended to be a handbook, a guide, not a text book. The purpose of which is to give direction to anyone who sincerely wishes to add depth, knowledge, to the playing or coaching of basketball. The order is disjointed purposefully, so that anyone, can pick the book up at anytime, turn to any page and find discourse that will be relevant in their pursuit of hoops information. The absence of punctuation is of purpose design as...
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