World's Best: Coaching with the kookaburras and the hockeyroos

Doctor, hockey world champion, Member of Parliament, state cricketer, winning coach best-selling author…the list of this remarkable man’s achievements are little short of astonishing.
In his latest literary offering, World’s Best, Ric Charlesworth gives us a clear understanding of what makes players and teams – not just hockey teams – exceptional. It is this quest for ‘exceptionality’ that Charlesworth meticulously and unflinchingly deconstructs, creating a picture where every piece of the jigsaw – whether it’s tactics, determination, team culture or simply brilliant skills – plays its role in creating a masterpiece.
Drawing on impossibly rich experiences in the sporting field, Charlesworth transports the reader on a fascinating and at times heart-breaking journey of success and failure. From the disappointment of the Kookaburras 2012 London Olympics campaign to the soaring elation of winning the World Cup in The Hague two years later through to the sustained brilliance of the Hockeyroos, World’s Best masterfully plots hockey’s evolution in eloquent detail.
Charlesworth’s record is unsurpassed by any other coach or team in the history of the sport, a giant of sporting achievement, success and innovation. As with everything this favourite son of WA has done he has given us yet another piece of brilliance – a truly exceptional Australian.

 

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World's Best: Coaching with the kookaburras and the hockeyroos

Doctor, hockey world champion, Member of Parliament, state cricketer, winning coach best-selling author…the list of this remarkable man’s achievements are little short of astonishing.
In his latest literary offering, World’s Best, Ric Charlesworth gives us a clear understanding of what makes players and teams – not just hockey teams – exceptional. It is this quest for ‘exceptionality’ that Charlesworth meticulously and unflinchingly deconstructs, creating a picture where every piece of the jigsaw – whether it’s tactics, determination, team culture or simply brilliant skills – plays its role in creating a masterpiece.
Drawing on impossibly rich experiences in the sporting field, Charlesworth transports the reader on a fascinating and at times heart-breaking journey of success and failure. From the disappointment of the Kookaburras 2012 London Olympics campaign to the soaring elation of winning the World Cup in The Hague two years later through to the sustained brilliance of the Hockeyroos, World’s Best masterfully plots hockey’s evolution in eloquent detail.
Charlesworth’s record is unsurpassed by any other coach or team in the history of the sport, a giant of sporting achievement, success and innovation. As with everything this favourite son of WA has done he has given us yet another piece of brilliance – a truly exceptional Australian.

 

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World's Best: Coaching with the kookaburras and the hockeyroos

World's Best: Coaching with the kookaburras and the hockeyroos

by Ric Charlesworth
World's Best: Coaching with the kookaburras and the hockeyroos

World's Best: Coaching with the kookaburras and the hockeyroos

by Ric Charlesworth

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Doctor, hockey world champion, Member of Parliament, state cricketer, winning coach best-selling author…the list of this remarkable man’s achievements are little short of astonishing.
In his latest literary offering, World’s Best, Ric Charlesworth gives us a clear understanding of what makes players and teams – not just hockey teams – exceptional. It is this quest for ‘exceptionality’ that Charlesworth meticulously and unflinchingly deconstructs, creating a picture where every piece of the jigsaw – whether it’s tactics, determination, team culture or simply brilliant skills – plays its role in creating a masterpiece.
Drawing on impossibly rich experiences in the sporting field, Charlesworth transports the reader on a fascinating and at times heart-breaking journey of success and failure. From the disappointment of the Kookaburras 2012 London Olympics campaign to the soaring elation of winning the World Cup in The Hague two years later through to the sustained brilliance of the Hockeyroos, World’s Best masterfully plots hockey’s evolution in eloquent detail.
Charlesworth’s record is unsurpassed by any other coach or team in the history of the sport, a giant of sporting achievement, success and innovation. As with everything this favourite son of WA has done he has given us yet another piece of brilliance – a truly exceptional Australian.

 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780994641830
Publisher: RC Sports (WA) Pty Ltd
Publication date: 11/18/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 324
File size: 10 MB

Table of Contents

PART 1 KOOKABURRAS 1 Vigilance 2 Back into the Fray 3 Nadir in London 4 Finishing with the Kookaburras PART 2 COACHING 5 "Australia is Weak on Tactics" 6 "Comfort the Troubled and Trouble the Comfortable" 7 Numbers Matter 8 Teamwork 9 The More Things Change 10 "Our Doubts are Traitors" 11 "Come to the Edge," Corinne Reid PART 3 SPORTS 12 Champions 13 The Excellence Delusion, Corinne Reid 14 Captain's Pick 15 Corporate Sport Appendix Acknowledgements Index of Names
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