Like any good community-minded parent, you want to help with your child's youth soccer program. But, you don't really know the game that well, you are busy, you aren't experienced coaching kids.... Here's a concise, comprehensive guide for new coaches who may have never played soccer and want to get started on the right foot (no pun intended). Written by an experienced teacher and coach, this book helps you appreciate the world's most popular sport, identify worthy goals for youth athletics, and gives concrete steps for working effectively with kids in practice and games. Most importantly, the author shows how to balance the values of fun and learning with pressures for competitiveness and winning. Full of wisdom and humor from someone who loves working with kids, the lesson of this book is simple: Focus on the right priorities-sportsmanship, personal development, teamwork, fitness, fun-and everyone is a winner, not just in spirit, but, you'll find, even in the results on the scoreboard.