How To Scout Football

Author : Steve Belichick
Publisher : Martino Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781578987061
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football Scouting Methods written by Steve Belichick and published by Martino Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Considered the bible of scouting techniques" according to the Los Angeles Times, Football Scouting Methods explains the basic scouting strategies and insights of author Steve Belichick. He was widely viewed as the ablest football scout of his time and coached at the U.S. Naval Academy for 33 years; his son is New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, a three-time Super Bowl winner. When Steve Belichick died in November 2005, the New York Times headline cited him as "Coach Who Wrote the Book on Scouting," and quoted Houston Texans General Manager Charley Casserly calling Football Scouting Methods "the best book on scouting he had ever read." Joe Bellino, Navy's Heisman Trophy winner in 1960, told the Times that Steve Belichick "was a genius. On Monday nights, he would give us his scouting reports, and even though we were playing powerhouses, I always felt we were prepared because he found a way for us to win." In recent years Football Scouting Methods has been one of the top ten most sought out-of-print books; used copies have been quite scarce. This reissue edition makes the original 1962 text available once again in exact facsimile. The book covers how to scout opponents, recognize defenses, analyze offenses, discover "tip-offs" that reveal the opponent's plays, compose a useful report, self-scout, and conduct postgame analysis. "Steve Belichick taught many younger men how to scout and how to watch film and how to prepare their teams for the next week's game," David Halberstam noted in the Washington Post, and his best student was his own son Bill Belichick, "one of whose greatest skills as a coach to this day remains his ability to analyze other teams, figuring out both their strengths and their vulnerabilities, and shrewdly deciding how to take away from them that which they most want to do." When CBS asked Bill Belichick to name his favorite book, he replied "Well, I've got to go with my dad's. Football Scouting Methods. I'd have to go with that."

Author : George Allen
Publisher : Martino Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781578987290
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Scout Football written by George Allen and published by Martino Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Danville, Ill.: School-Aid Co., [1953]

Author : Tony Razzano
Publisher : Bonus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781566250269
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Razzano written by Tony Razzano and published by Bonus Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joe Bertuzzi
Publisher : Reedswain Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781890946265
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soccer Scouting Guide written by Joe Bertuzzi and published by Reedswain Inc.. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Tippett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781089883180
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expected Goals Philosophy written by James Tippett and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Expected Goals method is football's best-kept secret. The metric gives unparalleled insight into which teams and players are performing at the highest level. Professional gamblers have used Expected Goals to make millions through football betting. Club scouts have used Expected Goals to identify hidden gems in the transfer market. And the media have recently started using Expected Goals to offer more profound insight in their broadcasts. Despite this, most ordinary fans still don't understand what the Expected Goals method is - or appreciate the significant impact that it is set to have on the sport in coming years. Expected Goals (otherwise known as xG) was originally conjured up by a small corner of the online football analytics community. It didn't take long for professional gamblers to begin using xG to predict match outcomes. These bettors utilised the Expected Goals method to turn over hundreds of millions of pounds from the bookmakers. Before long, football clubs had caught on to the ground-breaking insight given by xG. Brentford FC were leaders in this field, managing to assemble a Play-Off-reaching squad on a shoe-string budget. In the last five years, the small West London side have turned over more than £100m in transfer revenue from their use of the Expected Goals method in player recruitment. More recently, the Expected Goals method has been adopted by the media as a form of insight. Fans are finally catching on to the pioneering means of football analysis. Soon enough, anyone who doesn't understand the Expected Goals philosophy will be left behind. "This book will make you watch football differently" - Tobias Pedersen "Possibly the most ground-breaking football book ever written" - Football Impact "A brilliant account of the history and future of Expected Goals" - StatShot

Author : Michael Calvin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448149967
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nowhere Men written by Michael Calvin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The Times British Sports Book Award 2014. A fascinating insight into the enclosed world of football scouts in the UK A teenaged boy plays football in a suburban park. His name is Raheem Sterling. The call is made: “Get down here quick. This is something special”. Another boy is 8, going on 28. His name is Jack Wilshere. The referee, an Arsenal scout, spirits him away from Luton Town. A young goalkeeper struggles on loan at Cheltenham Town in League Two. His name is Jack Butland. Within months he will be playing for England. Welcome to football’s hidden tribe. Scouts are everywhere yet nowhere, faceless and nameless, despite making the informed decisions worth millions. Award-winning sportswriter Michael Calvin opens up their hidden world, examining their disconnected lifestyles, petty betrayals and unconsidered professionalism of men who spend long, lonely hours on the road.

Author : Les Padfield
Publisher : Sportsbooks
ISBN 13 : 9781899807956
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scouting for Moyes written by Les Padfield and published by Sportsbooks. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All football clubs have them – scouts. Men (for they are almost always men) who watch teams to check how they play, who watch players to see how good they are. Even in these high tech days of video analysis and Prozone (a system which tells how far each player has run in a game, how many passes and how successful they were etc.) football clubs could not operate without the human element of scouting.Les Padfield, though, is not your typical scout. Not many are published poets! A Londoner, he was a schoolboy footballer of great promise – as he writes, Harry Redknapp, the Spurs manager, used to provide the crosses for him to score when they were schoolboys. He chose though to become a teacher of Physical Education, English and other subjects. He became a scout when, having been persuaded to attend a match at Millwall he meets an old friend, John Sainty, the chief scout at Preston North End. Sainty tells Les that the club’s manager, David Moyes, is looking for a London-based scout. And even though Les moved on to Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League, the title ‘Scouting for Moyes’ was too good to resist.Les tells of the frustrations of the job, the perks – a trip to Nigeria to watch a teenage prodigy who revealed he preferred to study medicine – and the precarious nature of football life. Gary Megson, Bolton’s manager who had also employed Les when he was in charge at West Bromwich Albion and Nottingham Forest, is sacked at the end of 2009. Les also offers the insight of a professional into the world,of football. Surprisingly his views are very often those of an outright fan.His royalties from the book will be donated to Cancer Research.

Author : Chris Anderson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101628871
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Numbers Game written by Chris Anderson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understanding—and winning—the most popular sport on the planet. Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the center of it all are the numbers—a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favor of how things actually are. In The Numbers Game, Chris Anderson, a former professional goalkeeper turned soccer statistics guru, teams up with behavioral analyst David Sally to uncover the numbers that really matter when it comes to predicting a winner. Investigating basic but profound questions—How valuable are corners? Which goal matters most? Is possession really nine-tenths of the law? How should a player’s value be judged?—they deliver an incisive, revolutionary new way of watching and understanding soccer.

Author : Wanceulen Notebooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781688409286
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soccer. Scouting Notebook written by Wanceulen Notebooks and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Write the players' data of the matches you see. REGISTRATION TEMPLATES FOR 30 SOCCER MATCHES How to use it: Each MATCH consists of 4 registration pages: - The first two pages are for the registration of the players of each team: names, numbers, demarcation and basic general characteristics of each player. At the bottom of the page there are playfields to help us graphically place players. - The next two pages (3 and 4) include a table with boxes so you can take the notes you consider about the players that have excelled in each teamand about which you think it is worth expanding the information basic that you have written down in the previous record sheet. - From each game you can also record the reference data: teams participating, category and competition, day and time, and fieldwhere the game is played. - It supposes a useful registry of data that you can file, before computerizing them, or before passing them to the archives or databases where you store the information of your observations.

Author : Daniel Kelly
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477179909
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whatever It Takes written by Daniel Kelly and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His dream was football. Since he was eight years old, author, Daniel Kelly, was a fan in every sense of the word. Every Sunday revolved around the game. He ate, breathed and lived for the game that he loved. He was even able to meet his favorite team and get autographs and pictures taken with many of his heroes. Over the years, his passion and obsession continued to grow. Then on his seventeenth birthday he was given a book that forever changed his life. It was a book about scouting. He couldn't put it down. He thought this is what I want to be; I want to be an NFL scout. He began recording college football games off of television and he'd race through his homework to practice writing scouting reports. When the rest of his high school typing class was working on their assignments, he was sitting in the back of the class typing up his scouting reports. He was so hoping his hard work might land him an internship, but nothing happened. Yet, he did not give up. He graduated from high school, but soon after dropped out of a small community college. He went to work for different companies, businesses and industries, but he could not deny football was still in his blood. He finally realized he had to go for it; he just had to give his dream one last chance. So, he put together a plan to do something that had never been done before. But, would it work this time? Find out how he pursued his childhood dream and became part of the NFL in Whatever it Takes.