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Momentum is a phenomenon that all players experience positively and negatively in training, matches and between matches across a season.

This book teaches players and coaches how to understand it, affect it, control it and use it to their advantage. By exploring momentum and its influence, it allows coaches and players to raise the standards of their game through tactics, player and coach psychology and reading the pattern of the match. Including interviews with top players and coaches, this is the definitive guide to controlling momentum in soccer.

• Momentum
• The Pattern of the Match
• Tactics
• Mental Skills and Developing Momentum
• The Coaches' Guide
• Summary

Alistair Higham is a recognised authority on momentum in sport, lecturing to sporting bodies and businesses across the world. His first book, Momentum: The Hidden Force in Tennis, sold worldwide and is used by coaches and players at the highest levels of the professional game. Alistair's initial application of these ideas to soccer was greatly aided through work with Mick Wadsworth (renowned football coach and Manager), who had the vision to recognise the potential in the research.

Dr Chris Harwood is a British Olympic Association-registered Sport Psychologist and is accredited by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences. He has worked in research, teaching and consultancy in applied sport psychology at Loughborough University for the past eight years.

Dr Andy Cale began his career as Sports Psychologist at Sheffield United. He has played semi-professional football and coached soccer at various levels with all age groups. Andy has authored several psychology resources for The Football Association and is now The FA's Education Adviser.