NSCAA Guide to Soccer Coaching Excellence: The Best of Soccer Journal - Softcover

Beginning with the mental side and including highlights on tactics and technique, coaching and team management, as well as fitness and nutrition. Based in Kansas City, Kan., the NSCAA is the largest soccer coaches' organization in the world. Since its founding in 1941. it has grown to include more than 30,000 members who coach both genders at all levels of the sport. In addition to a national rankings program for colleges and high schools, NSCAA offers an extensive recognition program that presents nearly 10,000 individual awards every year. It fulfills its mission of coaching education through a nationwide program of clinics and week-long courses, teaching more than 6,000 soccer coaches each year.

Jay Martin (editor) is the winningest coach in college men's soccer history with a total of 621 wins, and his career winning percentage of .819 entering the 2012 season ranks ninth all-time. In 2011, Martin guided Ohio Wesleyan to its second NCAA Division III national championship. Martin also has served a term as president of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. He has been a color analyst of the Major League Soccer's Columbus Crew for 9 seasons. He has been the editor of the NSCAA's The Soccer Journal since January, 2003, becoming the publication's third editor since its establishment in 1950.