Making the Ball Roll is the ultimate complete guide to coaching youth soccer.This focused and easytounderstand book details training practices and tactics and goes on to show you how to help young players achieve peak performance through tactical preparation communication psychology and agespecific considerations.Each chapter covers in detail a separate aspect of coaching to give you the football coach a broad understanding of youth soccer development. Each topic is brought to life by the stories of real coaches working with real players.Never before has such a comprehensive guide to coaching soccer been found in the one place. If you are a new coach or just trying to improve your work with players and looking to invest in your future this is a mustread book Analyse how football coaching has dramatically grown and changed over the last decade and help prepare your players for the modern game Understand the agerelated development of players technically tactically and physically Gain an insight into new research around psychology in soccer and the growing effects of social considerations like communication teamwork leadership and rapport Consider ageappropriate methods sessions and curriculum planning used by top coaching programmes Learn the methods of top coaches like Mourinho Guardiola Sir Alex Ferguson and Wenger and apply them to your work with youth players Study the methods of top development academies like Barcelona Liverpool and Atltico Mineiro and national associations like Germanys DFB Hollands KNVB the English FA and US Soccer