Kurt Aschermann – författare

If you're going to coach your first soccer team, you know you've got a lot to learn about teaching kids this unfamiliar sport. If you coach soccer now, you want to improve your team. If your son or daughter plays soccer, you want to know what good coaching is all about. This is the book for you! Jim San Marco (head soccer coach at the highly successful Edgemont High School program in New York State) and Kurt Aschermann (co-author with Gerard O'Shea of Coaching Kids to Play Baseball and Softball)have written this friendly, easy-to-use, fully illustrated guide that teaches youhow to run a successful soccer team - from setting up the first practice to choosing callisthenics to running individual and team skill drills to getting everyone a ride home at the end of the game. Emphasizing that helping kids to have funand learn about team spirit, competition, and themselves is far more important than winning games, the authors detail every step of building a soccer team that plays well and plays healthy. Instructions are fully illustrated with photos and diagrams: * Teaching the rules * Pre-practice preparation * Choosing the right equipment * Evaluating talent and assigning positions * Drills and exercises to teach fundamentals * Offensive and defensive tactics * Game strategies You may not have played much soccer or know much about it, but Coaching Kids to Play Soccerwill teach you everything you need to know. Don't start your season without it!

COACHES AND PARENTS OF SOCCER PLAYERS OF ALL LEVELS, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU! Revised and updated with new information, drills, diagrams, and photos, this friendly, easy-to-use, fully illustrated guide shows coaches how to run a successful soccer team -- no matter how much experience they have or what level of soccer they coach. From building a roster to making sure everyone has a ride home at the end of the game and everything in between: • SETTING UP THE FIRST PRACTICE • TEACHING THE BASICS • DEVELOPING SKILL THROUGH DRILLS AND EXERCISES • LEARNING THE RULES • ENCOURAGING FAIR PLAY AND HEALTHY COMPETITION Emphasizing that kids should have fun, stay active, and learn about team spirit and competition, win or lose, the authors detail every step of building a soccer team that plays well and plays healthy, while having a great time. Whether you''re a seasoned professional or new to the game, Coaching Kids to Play Soccer has the answers to every coach''s questions. Don''t start the season without it!

Robert Forester is the grandson and son of the pastors of Billingham Bible Church. When the founder retires and the son is unable to continue as pastor, the grandson is expected to keep the line going and move into the pulpit of the church. Only the grandson isn''t so sure. His study of religion in college and then at seminary, as well as conversations with a varied group of spiritual leaders, leads to questions and doubts that threaten his call to ministry. He’s not even sure he believes in God. Throughout the story, the youngest Forester wonders about his place in ministry and really questions just what it is he believes. During his struggles, his long-time girlfriend falls in love with someone else, and simultaneously, he falls in love with the granddaughter of one of his grandfather’s best friends, a prominent scholar, and professor at Union Theological Seminary, in New York. Through interactions with people as varied as his favorite professor in college, a restaurant owner in New York, a Buddhist nun, an Anglican priest, and several characters who enter the story and then mysteriously disappear from the story, the younger Forester discerns what he will do with his life and what he believes.In the end, after a series of strange appearances, he confronts his doubts and makes a decision that will alter the course of his life forever.