I will be speaking about my forthcoming book, Single-Digit Soccer: Snazzy Subtitle to Come, on Jan. 17 at the NSCAA Convention in Philadelphia. (Yes, I’m on at the same time as a Laura Harvey presentation, but she’s doing several, so you can still see both of us.)
Single-Digit Soccer is about youth soccer, specifically the “single-digit” years — ages 9 to 6, 5, 3, etc. For parents, it’s a guidebook through all the complexities, oddities and entertaining bits of youth soccer. For coaches and administrators, it’s a plea for sanity.
The presentation will be for coaches (though some of them are surely parents as well). I’ll be dealing with issues and radical ideas, a few of which I’ve already addressed in blog posts:
– Why play travel? What you think is wrong
– Learning from Little League baseball
– An alternative to tryout-based travel
– Dissension in the ranks (from last year’s NSCAA)
– Flunk the 2-3-1 (I’m a little disturbed that this is the most popular post in the series)
– Great moments in halftime speeches
– Parental habits develop early
– Can youth soccer be an afterschool program?
Catch up on all of the posts and get ready for more in 2015. Tentative book release date: June 2015.