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Kick the balls : an offensive suburban odyssey / Alan Black.

by Black, Alan.

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Hudson Street Press, c2008.

Soccer -- Humor.

Soccer for children -- Coaching.

Suburbanites -- United States.

9781594630477 (alk. paper)

159463047X (alk. paper)

xiii, 255 p. ; 22 cm.

One man's attempt to coach a peewee soccer team. When author Black was growing up in Glasgow, soccer was the be-all and end-all. His experience was not the little league, boys-of-summer stuff of modern America. For him, it was life and death. Now middle-aged and living in California, Alan finds himself coaching a team of eight-year-olds in his beloved sport--and nothing is going right. For a start, the kids are no good at soccer. Second, they're pampered. Black's coaching methods are a far cry from the "winning isn't everything" mentality his little leaguers have been reared with; and players and parents alike are shocked as Black attempts to transform the losing team through drills and bombast.

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