SoccerIQ: Things That Smart Players Do

An Amazon #1 Best-Seller!Named the #1 Soccer Book by Football.com.Named a Top 5 Book of the Year by the NSCAA Soccer Journal! Soccer iQ is the first book for soccer PLAYERS! In a world saturated with books about how to coach soccer, Dan Blank finally gives players a book on how to think it. Standing on two decades of collegiate coaching experience, Blank has catalogued soccer's most common mistakes and provides simple, connect-the-dots solutions to help players solve their soccer problems. Soccer IQ is soccer's first text book for players; an almanac of smarter soccer decisions intended to flatten out the learning curve. It covers everything from hunting rebounds to the value of the toe-ball; from playing in the rain to the world's dumbest foul. Blank tells his story from the familiar and humorous voice of a coach who has endured years of stress at the hands of his players. Written in plain-spoken language, Soccer IQ is an easy read and a quick-fix to the most common yet critically important soccer problems. Includes a bonus chapter on the college recruiting process.
"Finally someone wrote this book! If every soccer player read Soccer IQ, every coach would be a lot happier." Mark Francis - Head Coach University of Kansas
"Dan Blank has just written soccer's first definitive text book." Colin Carmichael - Head Coach Oklahoma State University
"This book has immediately become required reading for my team. I'll take 30 copies."Steve Nugent - Head Coach UNC-Greensboro
"Soccer IQ may the best practical soccer book I have ever read. There's no fluff. Just nuts and bolts principles that we teach every day. It'll solve a lot of your soccer problems."Steve Holeman - Head Coach University of Georgia

Author: Dan Blank
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 06/05/2012
Pages: 134
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781469982472

About the Author
Dan Blank has been coaching college soccer for over twenty years and served most recently as associate head coach at the University of Georgia. He is the first coach in Southeastern Conference history to lead the conference's best defense in consecutive years at different universities (Ole Miss 2009, Georgia 2010). He has an 'A' License from the USSF and an Advanced National Diploma from the NSCAA. He has also authored Soccer iQ Vol. 2, Every Thing Your Coach Never Told You Because You're a Girl, High Pressure, Shutout Pizza, Possession as well as several other books. You can buy his books and read his blog at www.soccerpoet.com.

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