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    3 Vs. 3 Soccer: How to Bring Home the Gold
    3 Vs. 3 Soccer: How to Bring Home the Gold
    3 Vs. 3 Soccer: How to Bring Home the Gold
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    3 Vs. 3 Soccer: How to Bring Home the Gold

    By William J. Linkous III

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    Discover the secrets that take a skilled small-sided soccer team to the championship
    level. This book will give you the strategies and plays to take home a championship
    trophy in small-sided soccer. Learn the philosophy, positioning, and mindset
    necessary to win at all levels. You will want to keep this book in your soccer bag, and
    refer to it again and again.
    This book will allow you to discover:
    Why skills alone are not enough to guarantee success at three versus three
    soccer.
    The single most important aspect of a short sided soccer game.
    Trick plays and strategies that could win your team the championship
    game.
    The mindset necessary to win playoff games.
    Proper offensive and defensive positioning and execution.
    In bounds plays and strategies that protect the ball from the other team.
    The most important soccer skills necessary to play and win short sided
    soccer.
    William Linkous has been a soccer player for over thirty-five years, and has played
    at all levels of amateur soccer. Bills teams have won countless amateur soccer
    championships. He played high school soccer in the Atlanta area, and played college
    soccer for Roanoke College in Virginia. He played extensive three versus three soccer
    during the time period from 1997 to 2011 in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, South
    Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Colorado. His teams won numerous local,
    regional, and national events in those states. During the time period from 1999
    to 2011, his teams won four national championships, took second place nationally
    twice, took third place nationally twice, and fifth place nationally once.
    This guide will put your team on the path to a championship in short sided soccer.
    Start your teams success today!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJun 13, 2012
    ISBN9781477121207
    3 Vs. 3 Soccer: How to Bring Home the Gold
    Author

    William J. Linkous III

    William Linkous has been a resident of the North Atlanta area for nearly fifty years. William grew up only a couple of miles from the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, and many of the areas described in this book. He spent much of his childhood exploring the area, and has been a regular visitor to the CRNRA during most of his adult life. He has spent countless hours hiking, trail running, biking, rock climbing, paddling, and fishing in the CRNRA. William is also a photographer, who has contributed his prints to the CRNRA.

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      3 Vs. 3 Soccer - William J. Linkous III

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      How to Bring Home the Gold

      By William J. Linkous III

      Copyright © 2012 by William J.Linkous III.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012909719

      ISBN:                 Hardcover                     978-1-4771-2119-1

      ISBN:                 Softcover                      978-1-4771-2118-4

      ISBN:                 Ebook                          978-1-4771-2120-7

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

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      116399

      Contents

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Conclusion

      Appendix A

      Appendix B

      Preface

      The study of three-versus-three soccer has been a natural extension of my passion for the game of soccer, or football as it is called in many other countries. Although I have been actively playing soccer since 1972, my first exposure to a three-versus-three soccer tournament occurred in 1997 after I had been playing soccer for twenty-five years. The game of three-versus-three soccer was new to me because short-sided tournaments were just gaining real popularity in the United States. The idea of traveling with a small group of soccer players to another city to play a tournament without goalies was intriguing to me.

      It was my good fortune that my friend Eric Letbetter invited me to accompany his team to Jacksonville, Florida, in August of 1997 to play in a regional qualifying three-versus-three tournament. His team had taken first place in the Atlanta three-versus-three tournament, and we were allowed to bring an additional player to the regional qualifying event. I was glad to accompany my friends Eric, Teo, Brendan, Fabrizio, and Ricardo to that tournament; and we had high hopes for success even though Teo was injured. Unfortunately, we lost most of our games and failed to advance past pool play. The losses our strong team suffered in that tournament inspired me to study the game to determine the techniques that would result in success. In 1998, we had another strong team at the local Atlanta tournament, but we barely qualified for the regional tournament in Kissimmee, Florida. We decided to go to the regional tournament anyway, and we were glad we did.

      The heat was oppressive in August of 1998 at the Kissimmee regional tournament. In fact, the tournament officials used mist sprayers to keep the players cool. Between games, my teammates and I did whatever we could to find any slice of shade out of the sun. By studying other teams, our team managed to learn some of the basic strategies and techniques that make three-versus-three soccer teams successful. We placed third at that regional tournament and decided take a chance and go to nationals in January of 1999 in Pensacola, Florida. At Pensacola in January of 1999, we won our first national championship. The glow from the success of that championship lasted many years, but it certainly did not guarantee future success. In 1999, our tournament record was somewhat uneven, as we occasionally forgot and relearned important techniques and principles.

      As those techniques more firmly cemented themselves in our minds, we began to experience a more unbroken record of success. The ultimate result has been, for me, four national championships, two second-place finishes, two third-place results, and one fifth-place finish at nationals. We also have had numerous top three finishes at various local and regional tournaments. I have enjoyed three-versus-three soccer tournaments in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Colorado. The memories of those tournaments will always be with me.

      Recently, I decided that the wisdom gleaned from this experience should be shared with others. I have enjoyed compiling this information into a form that I believe should help other folks enjoy similar success. I will continue to post additional materials and insights relating to three-versus-three soccer on my Web site, www.soccer3v3.com. Feel free to visit that site often.

      Acknowledgments

      Writing a book is quite an undertaking. Being able to write a good book requires a good team, just like winning a soccer championship. Numerous persons deserve thanks and appreciation for their assistance with the background to this book. I would like to thank the following persons for being excellent soccer teammates and friends during my soccer career and during my time playing three-versus-three soccer: Kristian Nielsen, Darren McCook, Eric Letbetter, Teo Roncal, Ray Torabi, Greg Foster, Faruk Tasdemir, Ken Palmer, Fabrizio Tapia, Dwayne McFerrin, Tom Elias, Stephen Horne, and Rosie O’Toole. Obviously, many other fine people fall in this category, but they are far too numerous to mention.

      I would also like to thank Greg Brick and Joe Avallone of the Central Florida Kraze Soccer Club for being excellent three-versus-three soccer teammates and for their assistance with the review and editing of this book. I would also like to express a huge thank-you to Reba J. Kelhofer for her kind assistance in editing this work. Finally, I would like to thank my family, including my parents and brother, as well as Laura, Will, Kara, and Ryan Linkous for their support during the creation of this work.

      Introduction

      Why Three-versus-Three Soccer?

      Imagine yourself on a small-sided soccer field at a major tournament in a different part of the United States. Imagine that you have spent the weekend having fun with your five teammates and friends and that you are exhausted. Your team has played its heart out in a three-versus-three soccer tournament, and it’s time for the championship game. You’ve watched your opponent play all weekend, and you know that the players on the other team are highly skilled and very aggressive. Your team struggled initially in the tournament but managed to make it to the winners’ bracket of the play-offs. You narrowly defeated your play-off opponents in the quarterfinals and semifinals. You are hot and tired, yet excited. How can your team beat this skilled opponent in the finals? Can you bring together your system and skills and so frustrate your opponent that they give your team kudos after the game? What about the size and speed of the opposing team? If they are much bigger and faster than your team, can you compensate defensively? Can you use the size of the field and the heat of summer to your advantage? Can you slow the game down to compensate for the other team’s speed? What can you do to give your team the edge?

      The game begins. Your team puts the ball in play. Fans gather around the field and cheer. Do you know where you should position yourself on offense? Are you sure that you have the goal covered on defense? If the other team pressures you when you play the ball inbounds, can your team handle it? The other team scores a quick goal to move ahead. Will you suffer a letdown? Can you keep your composure and come back, or will the other team use their scoring advantage to pull your players out of position? If the other team pulls ahead by two goals, is the game over? The game is only twenty-four minutes long, and time is quickly passing. How can your team give itself a chance to win?

      More and more soccer players are catching on to the rush of playing short-sided soccer. The action is intense, excellent skills are required, and everyone on the field is involved in nearly every play. Short-sided soccer provides quick action, and it is exciting for fans. Fans enjoy the excitement and goal scoring of short field matches and are very close to the action. There are several forms of short-sided soccer that appeal to soccer players, including three-versus-three, four-a-side, and seven-a-side soccer. Three-versus-three (or three-on-three) soccer, in particular, is rapidly catching on with both youth and adult players. There are several reasons that three-versus-three soccer is becoming such a hit, particularly in the United States.

      First, three-versus-three soccer combines physical skills and athleticism with important strategy and positioning. It is both a physical and mental challenge, requiring a player to unify his or her mental and physical exertion into a synchronized effort. Second, teams have small rosters of five or six players, making it easy to form a team and keep the same players together. Third, there are several major tours that promote the three-versus-three game both in the United States and Canada (see appendix A). These tours bring the game to the players with tournaments in major cities and the chance to travel to other cities to compete for the regional and national championships. Fourth, tournament-style soccer promotes team unity and friendships, as teams travel together to play in other cities. Fifth, putting together a team is economical and can usually be done over the World Wide Web. Finally, the style of the game in which teams have no goalies and concentrate on fast break goals and intense defense allows all of a team’s players to be a part of the action at

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