Soccer is more than the world’s favorite sport. It’s more than the beautiful game. It’s a guide to successful living, at least if you know what you’re looking for. Ciaran McArdle has spent been an avid soccer fan his entire life. He’s even built his entire career around it: founding multiple soccer-based businesses. Over the years, he’s discovered all the life and business lessons you can learn from the game.
Every successful player and every great team follow the same strategies:
- They plan how to achieve their goals.
- They perform in every game.
- They recover and review their progress.
- And they build a team around the right principles.
Within each of these strategies, there are dozens of lessons you can implement in your life—such as how to organize your time, how to ensure focus on the tasks that really matter, and how to use failure to your advantage. Ciaran has assembled all these ideas and brought them together in The Soccer of Success.
For anyone who loves the game and wants more out of their life and career, this is the way to do it.
Every fan knows that feeling when something magical happens: a goal in the last minute of extra time, the save that secures a huge win, the final whistle that seals the title. For Ciaran McArdle, these moments arere a roadmap to experiencing that kind of success in our own lives. Filled with dozens of great stories straight from the pitch, The Soccer of Success lays out the path to your success, whether as a player, a parent, or an entrepreneur.
Introduction
Part I. Plan
Chapter
1. The Hat Trick of Success
Chapter
2. An Eye for Goal
Chapter
3. The Big Three
Chapter
4. Prioritize Your Energy
Chapter
5. The Ninety-Minute Mindset
Chapter
6. Automatic First Touch
Part II. Perform
Chapter
7. Playing to Win
Chapter
8. Practice Makes Permanent
Chapter
9. Daily Improvement
Chapter
10. Mental Toughness
Chapter
11. Dont Jump into Every Tackle
Part III. Recover/Review
Chapter
13. Postgame Review
Chapter
14. The Formula for Growth
Chapter
15. Facing Failure
Chapter
16. You Dont Have to Be Ronaldo
Part IV. Extra Time: Leading a Team to Success
Chapter
17. The Need for Teams
Chapter
18. Building Your Best Team
Conclusion
As the Co-founder and CEO of XL Soccer World, CIARÁN MCARDLE has built his entire business around soccer. XL Soccer World operates ten sports facilities along the East Coast with millions of annual visitors. The companys travel branch, XL Travel, has taken thousands of teams around the world to some of the most impressive pitches on the planet. The company was recently purchased by SoFive, a City Football Group company. In his latest project, Ciaran has launched XL Academy, a fully licensed school for gifted young soccer players seeking a future in the game.
Winner of CEO of the Year from the Orland Business Journal, Ciaran is also on the board of Coaches across Continents, an organization that has reached more than 49 million young people across hundreds of countries.
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