Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Soccer in Mind PDF full book. Access full book title Soccer in Mind by Andrew M. Guest. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Andrew M. Guest Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 1978817339 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 158
Book Description
From the FIFA World Cup to pick-up games at your local park, soccer is the closest thing in our world to a universal entertainment. Many writers use this global popularity to describe the game’s winners and losers, but what happens when we use social science to explore how soccer intersects with culture, society, and the self? This book provides a thinking fan’s guide to the world’s most popular game, proposing a way of engaging soccer that sparks intellectual curiosity and employs critical consciousness. Using stories and data, along with ideas from sociology, psychology, and across the social sciences, it provides readers with new ways of understanding fanaticism, peak performance, talent development, and more. Drawing on concepts ranging from cognitive bias to globalization, it illuminates meanings of the game for players and fans while investigating impacts on our lives and communities. While it considers soccer cultures across the globe, the book also analyzes what makes U.S. soccer culture special, including its embrace of the women’s game. As a scholar, former minor league player and coach, and fan, Andrew Guest offers a distinctive perspective on soccer in society. Whatever name you call it, and whatever your interest in it, Soccer in Mind will enrich your own view of the one truly global game.
Author: Andrew M. Guest Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 1978817339 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 158
Book Description
From the FIFA World Cup to pick-up games at your local park, soccer is the closest thing in our world to a universal entertainment. Many writers use this global popularity to describe the game’s winners and losers, but what happens when we use social science to explore how soccer intersects with culture, society, and the self? This book provides a thinking fan’s guide to the world’s most popular game, proposing a way of engaging soccer that sparks intellectual curiosity and employs critical consciousness. Using stories and data, along with ideas from sociology, psychology, and across the social sciences, it provides readers with new ways of understanding fanaticism, peak performance, talent development, and more. Drawing on concepts ranging from cognitive bias to globalization, it illuminates meanings of the game for players and fans while investigating impacts on our lives and communities. While it considers soccer cultures across the globe, the book also analyzes what makes U.S. soccer culture special, including its embrace of the women’s game. As a scholar, former minor league player and coach, and fan, Andrew Guest offers a distinctive perspective on soccer in society. Whatever name you call it, and whatever your interest in it, Soccer in Mind will enrich your own view of the one truly global game.
Author: Stephen John Bull Publisher: Reedswain ISBN: 9781591640950 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This book will help you to learn the secrets of developing mental toughness. The authors have brought to soccer their vast experience of working with the world champions and Olympic gold medalists, and provide a set of no-nonsense, practical tips and techniques. Soccer The Mind Game enables you to take the mental side of your game to a higher level. It presents a seven-step plan to help you maintain performance consistency by concentrating on the key principles of success.
Author: Ted Richards Publisher: Open Court ISBN: 0812696824 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 416
Book Description
This collection of incisive articles gives a leading team of international philosophers a free kick toward exploring the complex and often hidden contours of the world of soccer. What does it really mean to be a fan (and why should we count Aristotle as one)? Why do great players such as Cristiano Ronaldo count as great artists (up there alongside Picasso, one author argues)? From the ethics of refereeing to the metaphysics of bent (like Beckham) space-time, this book shows soccer fans and philosophy buffs alike new ways to appreciate and understand the world's favorite sport.
Author: Dan Abrahams Publisher: ISBN: 9781909125049 Category : Soccer Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Soccer Brain - from Dan Abrahams - teaches coaches to train players to compete with confidence, with commitment, with intelligence, and as part of a team.
Author: Peter Loge Publisher: John Hunt Publishing ISBN: 1785357557 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
The modern world is networked and always working. Organizations no longer have the luxury of time. Expertise is no longer confined to a couple of smart guys in corner offices, reviewing information to which only they have access and issuing instructions through layers of middle-men to nine-to-fivers who carry out the dictates and feed paper back up the chain, awaiting the next set of instructions. Today’s successful organization is decentralized and never stops moving. In fact, organizational success is a lot like soccer. Every player is both a specialist and generalist. Responsibility on the field is distributed, and everyone on the team works for everyone else. Communication among players is constant. Soccer is 90 minutes of systems thinking in action. Soccer Thinking for Management Success is by a soccer fan and player who has spent a career building and running teams and organizations. He draws on insights from leaders, known and not-so-well-known who use soccer thinking to succeed. This is not just another book on how to be a great leader by a famous person. This is a management and leadership book by, and for, the rest of us.
Author: Phil West Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 1468314130 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 253
Book Description
“A brisk and informative look at Major League Soccer’s first twenty years . . . West gives MLS fans a worthy chronicle.” (Booklist). In 1988, FIFA decreed that the 1994 World Cup would be played in the United States – with the condition that the U.S. would start a new professional league. The North American Soccer League had failed just four years prior, and the prospects of launching a new league for Americans, who didn’t share the rest of the world’s love for soccer, were both exciting and daunting. The United States of Soccer is the engaging history of Major League Soccer’s bootstrap origins prior to its 1996 launch, its near-demise in the early 2000s, and its surprising resilience and growth as it won recognition from soccer fans around the world. The book also explores the origin of MLS’s superfans who set the tone within MLS stadiums and defining what it is to be a North American soccer fan. Phil West chronicles those fans’ voices – intermingled with league officials, former players and coaches, journalists, and newspaper accounts – to detail MLS’s remarkable journey.
Author: Dan Abrahams Publisher: Bennion Kearny Limited ISBN: 9780957051195 Category : Soccer Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
Soccer Tough demystifies mental toughness and football psychology and offers practical techniques that will enable soccer players of all abilities to actively develop focus, energy, and confidence. Soccer Tough will help banish the fear, mistakes, and mental limits that holds players back.
Author: Gareth Stratton Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415286619 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
Blending contemporary sports science theory with youth specific coaching practice, this book offers soccer development strategies that are tailored to the needs of young players.
Author: Martin Alongamoh Publisher: ISBN: 9780228846970 Category : Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
This magic book details what most coaches don't teach in order to help open doors for pro careers: mental training, the specific needs at each position in the field, and what scouts want to see at tryouts. The author has bundled these useful resources for young players and parents looking to benefit from their time and dollars invested in soccer, most importantly if they are learning in North America. This book has a breakdown of simple lessons to survive at the grass-roots level. It's for players looking for fast improvement of skills and increased game awareness, and helps them to understand commitment, confidence, hard work, and discipline. It teaches young players how to regulate their emotions and manage their thoughts in a positive manner in all circumstances, to create room for opportunities. This Soccer Talisman guide contains ex-pro players' stories of difficulties and success that help create an environment to let young athletes stay hungry, build strong mental strength-which is about finding the courage to live according to soccer values-and be bold enough to create a name for themselves in soccer, even with average skills. Those who have played before you have proven that the psychological side of soccer is the key to success. This is complex and hard to teach for coaches, but easily developed with Soccer Talisman at home. It's the most needed skill of your game, because it creates self-belief. Without a growth mindset, your years of practicing soccer will end in failure. The author also includes successful parent practices and rules that coaches can't fill in; some nutrition tips; ideas on how to avoid dishonest, incompetent individuals at the development level; and where to find scouting/tryout opportunities that can lead you to a pro career or a college scholarship. Conviction requires courage, and that's what Soccer Talisman is all about. It's a key that unlocks solutions and provides detailed ways to get over most of the hurdles that stop prospective young soccer players from progressing when coaches can't help. It's made for life and sport-enjoy it!
Author: Andrew M. Guest
Author: Andrew M. Guest
Author: Stephen John Bull
Author: Ted Richards
Author: Dan Abrahams
Author: Alan Goldberg
Author: Peter Loge
Author: Phil West
Author: Dan Abrahams
Author: Gareth Stratton
Author: Martin Alongamoh