List of some of the best YouTube channels about 1-on-1 football player development:
- 7mlc
- Become Elite
- Coach Thomas Vlaminck
- Simply Soccer
- Train Effective
- Progressive Soccer Training
- AllAttack
- Beast Mode Soccer
Here’s my personal recommended reading list in relation to football and talent development (more or less in the order that I read them).
Most of them I listened to as an audiobook (via Audible.com).
- When Nobody Was Watching, My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World (2016, Carli Lloyd, Wayne Coffey)
- Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes (2017, Ben Bergeron)
- Outliers, The Story of Success (2008, Malcolm Gladwell)
- The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. (2009, Daniel Coyle)
- The Gold Mine Effect (2021, Rasmus Ankersen)
- Mindset – The New Psychology of Success (2019, Carol S. Dweck PhD)
- Winning – The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (2021, Tim Grover)
- Relentless – From Good to Great to Unstoppable (2020, Tim Grover)
- Soccer Tough, Simple Football Psychology Techniques to Improve Your Game (2012, Dan Abrahams)
- Soccer IQ, Things That Smart Players Do (2012, Dan Blank)
- High Performance Habbits (2017, Brendon Burchard)
- Mental Toughness for Young Athletes (Parent’s Guide) (2021, Troy Horne, Moses Horne)
- The Vision of a Champion (2005, Anson Dorrance, Gloria Averbuch)
I also very much enjoyed listening to the biographies of these football legends:
- My Turn: The Autobiography (2016, Johan Cruyff)
- My Story (2015, Steven Gerrard)
- Jamie Vardy: The Boy from Nowhere (2016, Jamie Vardy)
- Pep Guardiola: The Evolution (2017, Marti Perarnau)
- Gunning for Greatness: My Life (2018, Mesut Özil)
- I Think, Therefore I Play (2018, Andrea Pirlo, Alciato Alessandro)
- Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer (2020, Jamie Redknapp)
- Alex Ferguson – My Autobiography (2013, Alex Ferguson)
- I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic (2016, Zlatan Ibrahimovic)
- Christiano Ronaldo – The Biography (2020, Guillem Balague)
- Quiet Leadership (2016, Carlo Ancelotti)