Developing Youth Football Players

Tap into the potential of your young footballers

Ensure that your youth team reach their potential - from fundamental football skills and goalkeeping to tactics and game intelligence!

Developing Youth Football Players combines proven sports coaching methods with more than 150 engaging games, corrective exercises and competitions for players aged 7 to 14. The resource, written in clear text and including colourful illustrations allows young athletes to:

• develop their football skills
• understand team play
• appreciate the sport.

Based on the internationally renowned Football Development Model, training and coaching methods are divided into four levels, resulting in the best age-appropriate coaching resource available.

• Chapter 1. The Natural Development of Young Players
• Chapter 2. A Successful Approach to Coaching Football
• Chapter 3. Coaching Age-Appropriate Football
• Chapter 4. Games for Basic Abilities and Capacities
• Chapter 5. Developing Football Game Intelligence
• Chapter 6. Games for Mini-Football
• Chapter 7. Games for 7-on-7 Football
• Chapter 8. Developing Young Goalkeepers
• Chapter 9. Games for 8-on-8 Football
• Epilogue Taking Football Into the Future

Horst Wein is perhaps the world's foremost mentor of football coaches and trainers. He has taught the coaches of institutions in 51 countries covering four continents and has written 31 sport-related textbooks, including four on football.

Wein, an Olympic silver medal winner as a coach, was the first coach from the Western world to be invited to train top athletes in the former Soviet Union in the late 1970s. He also has served as a consultant for two Olympic Games, the Asian Games and Inter Milan.

Currently, Horst Wein works cooperatively with the Center for Research and Studies (CEDIF) of the Royal Spanish Football Federation. Recently, Nike United Kingdom appointed him as head coach for their famous Premier Football training programme.