Football Skills: From Warm-up to Final Whistle: The Essential Guide

by Clive Gifford

With digital diagrams and action photographs throughout, this work presents a definitive guide to playing football, including rules, skills, positioning and set pieces.

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Clive Gifford is a highly experienced journalist and author with over 170 books published and more than 800 features and stories written for adults and children.

Clive is an unusual author who likes to work in both fiction and non-fiction. Perhaps this reflects his unusual life which, so far, has seen him travel to over 70 countries, be held hostage in Colombia, go parachuting, coach several sports and run a computer games company.

He says: "What drives me more than anything else is the desire to communicate, entertain and inform through the written word."

Reviews

[Brenna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I chose to pair this nonfiction book about soccer with the fiction book Goof-Off Goalie for many reasons but mainly because both books serve as tools to help someone play the game of soccer. In the nonfiction text, the author includes realistic pictures of the positions commonly known in soccer and how those positions work on the field. The fiction book is about a young boy who is a bit of a class clown, who dreams of being a star soccer player. I think that the nonfiction book really shows just how the game looks on the field and how the positions differ, the fiction story would provide a funny story about how soccer is played but also how a silly kid goes from being the class clown player to a star athlete.

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Chock-full of illustrations (some computer models, etc) to illustrate all aspects of the game and its rules.

[Muhammed]

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