Book Review: Soccer: A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Stop the Other Team, About Each Player on a Team, and How to Lead Your Players, Manage Parents, and Select the Best Formation by Dylan Joseph

Soccer: A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Stop the Other Team, About Each Player on a Team, and How to Lead Your Players, Manage Parents, and Select the Best Formation by Dylan Joseph
Great collection of books to help you and your team.
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Soccer Defending: A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Stop the Other Team (Understand Soccer Book 5) by Dylan Joseph
Starts with offer of a free field guide to take with you.
Table of contents where chapters are broken up into specific steps of defending.
Other works by the author are listed along with dedication and preface.
Like that it speaks of how this book, series was written-personal experiences from the author himself.
Love that not only videos will help you play the game and this book fills in the missing parts that are not shown.
Pyramid is discussed and explained about soccer and being a team player.
Points you to other works if you want specific help in a certain position and why you should go deeper into that subject.
Love that there's NOT a lot of backstory included.
Photos included as examplea are being discussed.
Learned a lot of new words and how they are used in soccer. Like strageety techniques als, so precise.
Glossary is listed at the back of the book along with acknowledgments. Poll question is also given where you can make a difference on what the author will write about next.
Go visit the soccer website and there is so much more information there and videos.
Mentions book seven also, can't wait to read that one!
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Soccer Positions: A-Step-by-Step Guide about Each Player on a Team (Understand Soccer Book 6) by Dylan Joseph
Book starts out with offer of a free printout which is a guide most important to soccer players.
Table of contents is next and about the author. Listings of the authors other works are highlighted and a dedication page.
Preface talks about the responsibilities of the player and the position they are playing showing a diagram of a pyramid which is explained in detail.
List of positions are abbreviated on the colorful page telling you what the positions are and book concentrates on one color at a time of the positions. There are also strategies that are shown also in different formats, making it easy to understand as they are color coordinated as well.
The individual chapters are then broken up by each position. Not only lists the skills but advantages, disadvantages and examples of the player.. Like that famous players and coaches are also quoted about what they know.
Never realized the number on the shirt also tells you the position they are playing. Some chapters even have a summary as there is so much to the position.
A midfield summary is also included with highlights to the players leg positions during play and how it helps your teammates.  Attacking summary is also included with color photos.
Soccer coach position is described in detail with notes from other famous coaches.
Coaching summary and conclusion are also attached.
Glossary at the end really helps to understand what all the team abbreviations and country championship games mean.
What's Next is also included at the end where you are invited to vote on what you'd like to see next from the author. Website contains so much more information, you just have to go there!
Really understanding the game now from when I first started reading this series. Could see many of the team play also beneficial to other sports.
There is so much to this book, I read it twice through and will probably read it again when I find out the position my granddaughter will be playing to help point out what she needs to concentrate on.
Congrats to womens' soccer team, world champs!
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Soccer Coaching: A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Lead Your Players, Manage Parents, and Select the Best Formation (Understand Soccer Book 7) by Dylan Joseph
Book starts out with bonus material information and details of what's included.
Table of contents where each chapter concentrates on certain aspects of coaching.
About the author is next. and highlights other works by the author.
Dedication page and preface are included.
Photographs are included showing what is being discussed as some learn by visual aids.
Intro is included then the chapters.
What I love about this book is that there are resources and quotes from other famous ball players that might make a difference in how you coach.
Especially like the chapter on parents as I recall when my husband was a coach and had a parent who was a local cop and wanted his son to play a certain position in baseball.
In the same regard how to deal with difficult players is included.
Love the sketches and graphs. Sections on topics  include: topics unrelated to practice, topics relating to practice and formations.
Like also how the sections are broken up with specific themes to concentrate on.
Very detailed formation strategies are discussed and shown and why they should be used during play.
Conclusion ends this book where the author tells you to apply what you've learned on the field.
Bonus gift is linked at the end of the book and a free book.
Glossary of terms is also included at the end along with acknowledgements.
What's next asks for your help in what the author will write about next.