The Modern Soccer Coach represents an excellent insight into a specific methodology that enhances training sessions and allows the implementation of all pillars of the game to be incorporated into each practice. This is not necessarily a tactics book, it is more a book that focuses on the mindset of the coach and his / her ability to create an environment where the team will improve, but more importantly train through a method that more closely simulates the game. Not since Clive Woodward’s “Winning” has a book been published that focuses on how we have to change our outlook and approach to coaching and our overall philosophy on the type of training sessions we use.
For those of us who have already adopted this “global coaching” methodology, The Modern Coach reinforces what we have been doing while at the same time makes us improve our coaching even further. The book is so well written that it forces even a modern coach to immediately review each part of their training manual and weekly cycle. Even those that may have adopted this manner of working will begin to look a bit more closely at everything they do during a year of training, as the book brings up excellent insight on how to reorganize each part of our profession, not just our training sessions.
The book contains some clever exercises on the various topics that are covered, but what is important is the how to use these exercises as part of a greater training concept. I am fully in agreement that we have to move away from the traditional style to training that is simply poor, boring and predictable and adapt a much more dynamic, high intensity, and ball focused approach. In order to ensure that we provide our players with the best environment to succeed we have to focus on maximizing what we do with the players when we are around them, both on and off the field, something this book does an excellent job to describe and explain.
Gary Curneen shows us, with specific examples and proven methods, that we have to move away from the typical “we have always done it this way” approach, as the game will pass you by if you do not keep up with what is going on at the highest level. Regardless of the level you are working at, it is of utmost importance we continue to educate ourselves and understand the need to constantly modernize our working methods. The Modern Soccer Coach is an excellent book that, until now, has been missing from available soccer literature and I highly recommended it to any coach.
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