Ten step-by-step football books, built on The 10-Minute Method. One hundred drills, clear diagrams and the exact words to say — so you can help your child improve without ever having coached a day in your life.
Your child gets maybe two hours of football a week. Everything that separates the players who kick on from the ones who don't happens in the hours nobody organises. This is how you use them.
No longer. Short enough to finish before boredom arrives, long enough to make a difference. It's the length that makes it repeatable.
Little and often beats one long Sunday session every single time. Skill is built through repeated exposure, not marathons.
Every session ends on something fun. That's what makes them ask to do it again on Thursday — and asking again is the whole battle.
Most parents want to practise with their kid and stall at the same three places. These books were built to remove all three.
You end up kicking a ball back and forth for twenty minutes and calling it practice. Better than nothing — but it isn't training.
You can see it isn't quite right but can't explain why. Every drill comes with the exact coaching cues, in plain English.
Ten minutes, game-based, finished before the fun runs out — with a tracker to keep the habit alive.
Each book stands alone. Together they take a player from their very first touches at five to strength work and game intelligence at sixteen.
Toe taps, sole rolls and traffic lights. Getting comfortable with a ball at their feet.
Close control, turns and dribbling through cones. Confidence on the ball.
Everything you can build with a ball and a wall. Both feet, every time.
Shooting and striking technique that holds up when it actually matters.
Step overs, the croqueta, change of pace. Beat your player, both sides.
Jockeying, body shape and the block tackle. The art nobody teaches.
Quicker off the mark, sharper in the turn. No ladder required.
Elastico, McGeady spin, Marseille turn — broken into frames you can follow.
Scanning, body orientation and decisions. What coaches notice first.
Bodyweight only. Build a body that survives a full season.
Every drill drawn frame by frame, so a skill move reads as a sequence rather than a still picture.
The exact words to say. “Soft foot, like catching an egg” beats “cushion it” — and this tells you why.
Every drill carries a dose. No guessing whether that's five reps or fifty.
A harder version of every drill, so the same book still works six months later.
A printable page for the fridge. Colour a star for effort, not for getting it right.
Which drills, which session, what to finish on. Open it and go.
Formations with honest pros and cons, principles in and out of possession, practices designed so nobody stands in a queue, and full session plans with timings. Written for volunteers, not for badges.
No formations, no systems — deliberately. Touches, enjoyment and bravery, plus how to actually run a session for twelve six-year-olds.
Where tactics begin. Four formations, building from the keeper, pressing triggers, the mid-block, and 16 practices.
The bridge to the full game. Back threes, holding an offside line, switching play, and 15 practices.
The full game. 4-3-3 to 3-5-2, pressing traps, rehearsed patterns of play, defending a lead, and 16 practices.
All four manuals — 5v5 through to 11v11
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Just taken on a team? This is the pack I'd hand you. A repeatable session structure that works at every age, a warm-up bank, and a core drill plus small-sided game for every format from 5v5 to 11v11.
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No. Every drill is written for someone who has never coached. You get the steps, the exact words to say, and a diagram showing what it should look like. If you can read it out and encourage, you can run it.
A ball and a bit of space — a garden, a driveway or the local park. A few drills use markers, and shoes, water bottles or rolled-up socks work fine. Two books use a wall. Nothing needs buying.
Go by age. Book 1 suits 5–7 and the ladder runs to Book 10 for 12–16. If they're between bands, start on the lower one — early wins build confidence faster than the challenge does.
Yes, and there is a whole range for it. The Coaches Collection covers 5v5 through to 11v11 with formations, principles and full session plans. Plenty of coaches also use the parent series as homework to send home with players.
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No, and be wary of anyone who tells you otherwise. This is one coaching approach among many — a set of tools that may help. Player development depends on far more than any book can control. What we can promise is a structure, a hundred drills that work, and the words to say while you're doing them.
One hundred drills that take a player from their first touch to their first proper season. Start wherever they are.
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