Defending Principles of Play Soccer Coaching Manual


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Defending Principles of Play Soccer Coaching Manual explores the five principles of defending, namely pressure, cover, balance, compactness and control and restraint. These concepts are detailed in 5 dynamic presentations to improve your teams attacking success. The manual is an ideal resource for coaches working with players 8 years and older and includes 23 activities expertly illustrated in full color.




Attacking Principles of Play Soccer Coaching Manual


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Attacking Principles of Play Coaching Manual explores the five principles of attack, namely penetration, width, support, mobility and improvisation. These concepts are detailed in 5 dynamic presentations to improve your teams attacking success. The manual is an ideal resource for coaches working with players 8 years and older and includes 23 activities expertly illustrated in full color.




Soccer's Principles of Play


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It started with a question, "What are the fundamentals of soccer?" Whilst there are hundreds of books that look into the specific principles of coaches like Jurgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola, and Marco Bielsa, there is no core, distilled text on the key principles of the game. Until now. Join best-selling author and coach - Peter Prickett - as he puts soccer under the microscope and breaks it down into its constituent parts. By addressing the two primary phases - in-possession and out-of-possession - the book examines the five attacking and five defending principles, plus the transitions between each phase, to reveal the underlying heart of the beautiful game. These principles have underpinned coach education for decades and largely been unchallenged. When examining them, other deeper values emerge to support the one true principle - to score. Designed for coaches and soccer fans interested in the theory of soccer, this handbook is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the foundations that soccer is built on.




The Complete Guide to Coaching Soccer Systems and Tactics


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This truly complete tactical coaching manual covers the Principles of Attack and Defense, Team Shape, Man-to-Man and Zonal Marking, Formations, Positions and Roles, Coaching Methods, Patterns of Play, Possession, Substitutions and more. Well written and full of clear and precise diagrams, this book is perfect for coaches at any level.




Principles of Team Play


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Football in a Pandemic


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The 2020/21 football calendar was like no other. The first full Premier League season played during a global pandemic saw the schedule shortened with games played seemingly every day between September and May. The stadiums were empty, revenues fell and coaches had to adapt as players tested positive for Covid-19, but the beautiful game carried on. Football in a Pandemic takes an in-depth look at the tactics and strategies used during this unique season, whether a side was competing at the very summit, clinging to survival or somewhere in between. From high pressing, to low-block defending, patient build-up play and quick-fire counter attacking, UEFA A-licensed coach Sam Hudson puts the game plans under the microscope, highlighting the many intricacies and micro-tactics used by some of football's finest coaching minds.




Coaching 4-3-3 Tactics - 154 Tactical Solutions and Practices


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This book is a comprehensive resource for coaching the 4-3-3 formation at all levels. The level of detail will help you emulate how top coaches, such as Pep Guardiola, Maurizio Sarri and Jürgen Klopp use the 4-3-3 to great success. It will enable you to see all the solutions, in order to optimise your team's tactical awareness and performance.




The Soccer Coaching Handbook


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"This new manual ... is based on new exercises that overturn traditional conservative coaching styles, as these are responsible for a failure to identify and develop the needs of English football ... A comprehensive approach to acquiring and enhancing the fundamentals of football success."--Page 4 of cover




Soccer Coaching - Principles of Technical and Tactical Development


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Over twenty million Americans are playing the great game of soccer. This guide is for their coaches; it will help both the new and the experienced youth and high school coaches develop complete players, those who master the three fundamental elements of tech­nique, tactics, and function. There are many technique books on the market, and a few tactical books, but none which attempt to integrate technique, tactics, and function with accompanying game activities. As in state-of-the-art coaching for all sports, this integration is best developed through a system of progressions. Building upon a logical progression of exercises, activities, and shortsided games, this guide will help the coach to apply the princi­ples of play to the game of soccer and the development of soccer players. Too often these principles are overlooked by coaches; yet they are the very foundation of the game! Once a coach can view game action from this point of view he is capable of making important/relevant suggestions that relate to training and general principles. This facilitates player growth and game results.