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Play to Succeed: The Complete Football Guide for Juniors, Parents and Coaches
Paperback
Series: To Succeed
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.19 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Football is the world's game - but junior football books have never kept pace with what modern families actually need. The sport has never been more structured, more academically demanding, or more confusing to navigate than it is today. Academy dreams, grassroots clubs, girls' football, mental health, budgeting for kit - parents and juniors face all of this with very little guidance.
Play to Succeed is the book junior football has needed for twenty years. Technical, honest, and written with the junior player, the parent on the touchline, and the junior coach equally in mind.
What's Inside - 36 Chapters Across 6 Sections + 7 Appendices:- Own the Sport - the junior football landscape, rules and formats, why football, community and culture, the junior pathway honestly
- Own the Equipment - boots, training kit and gear, the pitch and setting, the girls' game, budgeting honestly
- Master the Technique - ball control and first touch, passing, dribbling and 1v1, shooting and finishing, defending
- Train to Improve - tactical principles, position-specific skills, set pieces, football-specific conditioning, recovery, nutrition and sleep
- Compete and Progress - match day, the academy reality (honest), trials and selection, the mental game, career realities and what comes next
- Live the Sport - parents' guide, coaches' guide, walking football and lifelong play, common questions parents ask, final principles
- Three expansion chapters: Junior Football Decision Tree, The Honest Academy Reality, The Lionesses Generation - Girls' Football Today, Self-Assessment, Apps and Modern Football Data Tools, Etiquette and Team Culture
- Seven appendices: Glossary; Resources; Junior Football Session Library; Tactical Pattern Library; Player Pathway Stage Standards; Warm-Up and Cool-Down Protocols; Reading List for Junior Football Families
- Junior Athletes (8-21): all the core techniques, tactical understanding, position-specific development, and an honest guide to the academy pathway and grassroots alternatives
- Parents: the chapters written specifically for you - how to support without pressuring, what the academy system actually looks like from the inside, how to handle rejection, and why grassroots football often builds better people than academies
- Coaches: junior development reference - age-appropriate progressions, session planning, FA and UEFA pathway context, and the long-game coaching philosophy that keeps kids in football beyond 16
- Girls and Their Families: dedicated chapters on the girls' game, the Lionesses generation, the WSL pathway, and how girls' football has transformed in the past decade
Evidence-based throughout - drawn from The FA, UEFA youth development research, Premier League academy structures, peer-reviewed sport science, and the lived experience of coaching junior footballers from first kick to scholarship.
The To Succeed Coaching Team has written the definitive junior football guide - for the Sunday-morning grassroots player and the academy hopeful alike.
Football's first book for the junior, the parent, and the coach together. Finally.
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