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by Richard Kentwell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 232 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary; illustrated edition edition (1 Dec 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1570281068
  • ISBN-13: 978-1570281068
  • Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 18.3 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Europe's top coaches have contributed to this collection of 180 outstanding drills designed to pinpoint specific skills and develop them to their fullest potential. These drills will help coaches advance their players' skills, confidence, and tactical awareness as they strive for creative, attacking soccer. The easy-to-use layout of Dutch Soccer Drills makes it an essential practice tool for all coaches. Divided into chapters on dribbling, passing, shooting, heading, restart plays, goalkeeping and conditioning, coaches have drills designed for the skills they want to work on right at their fingertips. Each drill features the objective, a clear diagram, and easy-to-follow organizational factors, instructions, coaching points and variations. Coaches will gain exciting new ideas from these excellent drills which will keep their players motivated and interested. Whether you want to break out of a practice rut or keep from falling into one, Dutch Soccer Drills will energize your players and make the most of practice time. Richard Kentwell is a licensed English F. A. Coach with over 25 years of coaching experience. The author of four books and numerous articles, Kentwell earned his masters degree in education from Boston University, with a specialization in human movement. He is a director of the British American School of Soccer and president of Reedswain, the coaching and book specialists.


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Richard Kentwell is a licensed English F. A. Coach with over 25 years of coaching experience. The author of four books and numerous articles, Kentwell earned his masters degree in education from Boston University, with a specialization in human movement. He is a director of the British American School of Soccer and president of Reedswain, the coaching and book specialists.

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Is this soccer or a pattern book for needlepoint?, 5 Nov 1997
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I don't claim to be an expert soccer coach. However, I do know that there are two schools of thought about how to coach soccer. In one school, coaches emphasize simple drills to teach and then perfect particular ball handling skills (for example, trapping or heading a high ball, or sprinting down the field and then sending a long crossing pass). These skills are then allowed to be put to use in small scrimmages, in order to allow each player to have a maximum number of ball touches to develop confidence in handling the ball under pressure, and also to allow for creativity. In the other school, coaches emphasize rigid pattern drills, which attempt to simulate particular play situations in soccer, and in this way, the players also learn to perfect their ball control skills.

Well, this book definitely belongs to the second school of thought. I don't happen to believe in this school, at least not yet.

I have to say that the title of the book made me think that there was some connection to Dutch Soccer. Visions of Johan Cruyff, Marco Van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Wiel Coerver, and all of those wonderful Dutchmen, who coach and play some of the most inventive and creative soccer in the world (oh, okay, maybe not in the whole world, just in Europe) danced through my head.

Instead, the author turns out to be really an Englishman, and the book's only connection to Dutch Soccer seems to be that these drills are borrowed from the Dutch Soccer Academy. The drills are really all about dribbling, passing, and shooting, in well-defined patterns. The pages are just filled with symbols - triangles, dots, and squiggly lines. Some of the drills are relatively straightforward and easy to do. Some of the patterns are quite complex. After trying to figure out several pages worth of these patterns, my eyes just started to glaze over. I don't know how the coaches or players memorize all of these patterns in the first place. And you would have to memorize them, otherwise the really complex drills would fall into total chaos.

I can only guess that if anybody were to use these drills, they would have to be 1) fairly advanced soccer players, probably at high school or college level or above, and 2) heavily into a structured style of soccer.

Maybe it will work for you. I didn't find the book to be very useful. The blurb in the title about "Individual Skills" is also misleading since there is virtually no information, not even one pearl of wisdom, about how to teach individual ball skills to a player.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars So many good drills I can't begin to use them all!, 23 Nov 1998
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For a coach desiring to teach skills to individuals, small groups, or team drills, this book has it all. As a newcomer to the game three years ago, but a former coach of other High School level sports, I found this book jam-packed with useful drills. It can be beneficial to everyone from a U-6 coach to the High School level. The wide variety of drills addressing so many different skills, allows me to keep my practices fun and fresh for my team. I can't comment from the viewpoint of an experienced soccer coach, but from my perspective of coaching youth teams for 3 years, it was easily the best spent money of the year for my team. Any coach wanting to teach his/her team new skills in a fun and organized way should really take a look at this one. It even prompted me to invent two or three new drills of my own that the team (U-10) loves to practice.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Small side games and drills, 17 Jul 2006
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This review is from: Dutch Soccer Drills: v. 4: Dribbling, Passing, Shooting, Combination Play and Small Sided Games (Paperback)
Both previous reviews are correct.

To get the most from this book you need to have matered the basics, this is a manual for you to dip into as a source of endelsss drills and small sided games. Decide on your session and then,select to create the playing environmernt for your coaching session.

Photocopy the book and use highlight pens to make moves and diagrams easy to follow.
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