--- product_id: 8573680 title: "The Double-Goal Coach: Positive Coaching Tools for Honoring the Game and Developing Winners in Sports and Life (Harperresource Book)" price: "£19.34" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/8573680-the-double-goal-coach-positive-coaching-tools-for-honoring-game store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # The Double-Goal Coach: Positive Coaching Tools for Honoring the Game and Developing Winners in Sports and Life (Harperresource Book) **Price:** £19.34 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Double-Goal Coach: Positive Coaching Tools for Honoring the Game and Developing Winners in Sports and Life (Harperresource Book) - **How much does it cost?** £19.34 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/8573680-the-double-goal-coach-positive-coaching-tools-for-honoring-game) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Written for both parents and coaches, The Double-Goal Coach is jam-packed with specific tactics and strategies to help motivate and inspire young athletes to reach their potential. There is a nation-wide epidemic of poor sportsmanship at all levels of youth sports, by the parents, the coaches, and the athletes. The nightly news shows parents fighting with one another, coaches lying about the age of their players, and the young athletes imitating the showboating and trash-talking antics of the professional leagues. In response, districts have tried to come up with Pledges in which participants agree to certain good sportsmanship rules, however without a complete rethink of youth sports and a practical program for implementing sportsmanship such Pledges are just words. Jim Thompson, Director of the Positive Coaching Alliance, provides a new foundation for youth sports. Thompson offers coaches and parents the essential tools to combine the desire to win with the more important goal of using sports to teach life lessons and build character in young athletes. The Double-Goal Coach draws from current sport psychology and proven coaching techniques to provide coaches and parents the practical tools that can be used to make youth sports a fun and enriching experience. Review: Excellent Book on Youth Coaching - This is an excellent book for someone drawn to coaching youth in any sport, especially the volunteer coach. I first read it from my local library and loved the elements of it so well that I bought a copy to keep and mark-up. This books orient a youth coach to what they need to be teaching and expecting of their players. You won't find drills and activities for any specific sport in this book but rather foundational principles of coaching, that is teaching youth how to honor the sport and the game, how to honor the rules and officials, and honoring your opponents and teammates. It shows you how to promote effort risk-taking and mistakes in the learning process, promote striving and improvement and mastery versus promoting outcomes. The first goal is coaching players to be winners, but the second goal, ultimately more important for the vast majority of our youth athletes, is coaching life lessons. If you are a youth coach, director of coaching in a volunteer organization, or the interested parent of a youth athlete, i would encourage you to buy it and read it. Review: Inspiring yet practical - Many books on the subject of improving youth sports are written to create awareness of the importance of the subject, but say little of practical value on the way of doing this. Other books treat the 'how' comprehensively but are as dry as fossilized bones. The DGC avoids these two pitfalls admirably. It does a great job of describing and explaining the problems that youth sports programs have in the US (and in many other parts of the World), with such feeling, sensitivity and clarity that one cannot avoid being moved by the arguments. Jim Thompson goes further, though, the DGC translates ideals into practical measures to build exemplary youth sports programs. My organization is currently using the DGC as a blueprint to develop a soccer program in Mexico, and its lessons and arguments are as useful, relevant and potent here as they seem to be in the US, judging by the growth of The Positive Coaching Alliance. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #269,536 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #193 in Sports Reference (Books) #243 in Sports Psychology (Books) #3,439 in Success Self-Help | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 36 Reviews | ## Images ![The Double-Goal Coach: Positive Coaching Tools for Honoring the Game and Developing Winners in Sports and Life (Harperresource Book) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61hYUQA83iL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent Book on Youth Coaching *by S***H on March 12, 2013* This is an excellent book for someone drawn to coaching youth in any sport, especially the volunteer coach. I first read it from my local library and loved the elements of it so well that I bought a copy to keep and mark-up. This books orient a youth coach to what they need to be teaching and expecting of their players. You won't find drills and activities for any specific sport in this book but rather foundational principles of coaching, that is teaching youth how to honor the sport and the game, how to honor the rules and officials, and honoring your opponents and teammates. It shows you how to promote effort risk-taking and mistakes in the learning process, promote striving and improvement and mastery versus promoting outcomes. The first goal is coaching players to be winners, but the second goal, ultimately more important for the vast majority of our youth athletes, is coaching life lessons. If you are a youth coach, director of coaching in a volunteer organization, or the interested parent of a youth athlete, i would encourage you to buy it and read it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Inspiring yet practical *by R***O on September 13, 2008* Many books on the subject of improving youth sports are written to create awareness of the importance of the subject, but say little of practical value on the way of doing this. Other books treat the 'how' comprehensively but are as dry as fossilized bones. The DGC avoids these two pitfalls admirably. It does a great job of describing and explaining the problems that youth sports programs have in the US (and in many other parts of the World), with such feeling, sensitivity and clarity that one cannot avoid being moved by the arguments. Jim Thompson goes further, though, the DGC translates ideals into practical measures to build exemplary youth sports programs. My organization is currently using the DGC as a blueprint to develop a soccer program in Mexico, and its lessons and arguments are as useful, relevant and potent here as they seem to be in the US, judging by the growth of The Positive Coaching Alliance. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another hit by Thompson *by K***D on September 25, 2003* This book covers some of the same topics as Thompson's classic, Positive Coaching. However, it has some new ideas in it, and also has some lessons learned since Positive Coaching was written. It also has a handbook-type approach - it gives you example talks, helps you plan a practice and also shows you ways to help you acquire Positive Coaching skills. I have found all of Jim Thompson's books enjoyable and enlightening. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Double-Goal Coach: Positive Coaching Tools for Honoring the Game and Developing Winners in Sports and Life (Harperresource Book) - The Power of Double-Goal Coaching: Developing Winners in Sports and Life - Positive Sports Parenting: How "Second-Goal" Parents Raise Winners in Life Through Sports --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/8573680-the-double-goal-coach-positive-coaching-tools-for-honoring-game](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/8573680-the-double-goal-coach-positive-coaching-tools-for-honoring-game) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-06-01*