LEARNING THROUGH
THE BEAUTIFUL GAME.
Together, SoulBall’s publications explore how football can become an environment for curiosity, creativity and lifelong learning.
Whether you’re discovering SoulBall for the first time or returning to continue the journey, we hope these books encourage you not simply to coach differently, but to observe differently.
Because every new way of seeing the game creates new opportunities to help others experience it.
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Small-number football?
Football is learned through experience.
At the heart of this book is a simple idea:
Small-number football isn’t the destination.
It’s the environment in which players experience football more often.
Blending practical coaching games with the philosophy that shapes them, Small-Number Football? explores how thoughtful environments can create richer opportunities for learning through the game.
COMING SOON
Athletic foundations
Movement is one of the great gifts of childhood.
Running. Jumping. Landing. Turning. Accelerating. Stopping.
Athletic Foundations is a practical collection of activities and challenges designed to help young people develop their explosiveness, strength, agility, balance, reactions, coordination and quick feet.
Created to be simple and accessible, the activities can be used by coaches within sessions, by parents at home, or by young people themselves as they continue to move, practise and grow.
FUTURE PUBLICATION
THE PLAYER WITHIN
Every player carries a world within them.
Thoughts. Emotions. Questions. Dreams. Doubts. Beliefs.
The Player Within explores the inner side of the young footballer—helping players grow in confidence, courage, resilience, self-awareness and character as they experience the challenges and opportunities of the game.
Because developing the player has never simply been about what happens with the ball.
It is also about who they are becoming along the way.
FUTURE PUBLICATION
THE SOULBALL PHILOSOPHY
Behind every practice sits a philosophy.
Behind every philosophy sits a way of seeing.
This collection explores the ideas, observations and principles that have shaped SoulBall over many years, inviting coaches and curious minds alike to think deeply about learning, consider the environments we create, and discover new ways of seeing the beautiful game.
A GROWING LIBRARY
Every new book begins with curiosity.
Not because we have all the answers.
But because good questions often become the beginning of deeper learning.
We hope this growing collection continues to encourage players, coaches, teachers, parents and lovers of the game to discover fresh ways of experiencing — and sharing — The Beautiful Game.