Mike Saif, Author at WORLD CLASS COACHING Training Center

0 Straight Ball Angled Run – Angled Ball Straight Run

By Mike Smith One of the simple constants I have found with teams who “know” each other well is how the runs and the passes always seem to match. Sometimes this takes years to develop, especially in congested areas like a tight midfield or a packed box. One of the tools I have found which helps

2 Second Phase Save from Parried First Save

By Scott Housden - Holding the ball when making a save is always what we as goalkeepers would like to achieve time and time again. However, many factors such as movement of the ball or weather conditions or, even a simple mistake can lead to the ball being spilled. The drill outlined below is a great

0 How to Warm Up For a Training Session

By Mike Saif Question - How do you warm up for a training session? Does it change depending on what the training session topic is? One of the most important things for me with training sessions is to get them active right away. Although I would set up different warm-ups sometimes depending on the topic of

0 Recovery Runs to develop Explosive Power

By Alex Trukan This practice is focused on developing explosiveness and maximal short to medium distance speed. This is based on utilising as big as possible chunk of ATP (energy stores) which can then produce maximal power. The larger the chunk is, the more energy can be produced as a result. The conditioning element is

0 Keeper Wars

By Steven Smith Setup: Two goals are set up 36 yards apart with a 44 yard width (two penalty boxes). Multiple balls are set inside of both goals and a keeper is placed in front of each net. Execution: Goal keepers attempt to score on each other by throwing, drop kicking, punting or serving off the

0 How Pep Guardiola Wins with Inverted Fullbacks eBook

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0 How Pep Guardiola Wins with Inverted Fullbacks - Part One

WORLD CLASS COACHING How Pep Guardiola Wins with Inverted Fullbacks By Mike Smith Table of Contents PART ONE INTRODUCTION WHAT IS AN INVERTED FULLBACK? CONDITIONS TO MAKE INVERTED FULLBACKS WORK PART TWO TACTICAL ADVANTAGES OF INVERTED FULLBACKS PART THREE DISADVANTAGES OF INVERTED FULLBACKS PART FOUR FLUIDITY HOW YOUR TEAM CAN USE INVERTED FULLBACKS BRINGING IT ALL

0 How Pep Guardiola Wins with Inverted Fullbacks - Part Two

WORLD CLASS COACHING How Pep Guardiola Wins with Inverted Fullbacks By Mike Smith Table of Contents PART TWO TACTICAL ADVANTAGES OF INVERTED FULLBACKS TACTICAL ADVANTAGES OF INVERTED FULLBACKS My grandfather always told me “Michael, if you want to make sure you make and keep lifelong friends, never talk about religion or politics.” I have found this

0 How Pep Guardiola Wins with Inverted Fullbacks - Part Three

WORLD CLASS COACHING How Pep Guardiola Wins with Inverted Fullbacks By Mike Smith Table of Contents PART THREE DISADVANTAGES OF INVERTED FULLBACKS DISADVANTAGES OF INVERTED FULLBACKS While I hope the previous pages have clearly outlined the big advantages of the inverted fullback. (If you can’t take my word for it, the rate at which Man City

0 How Pep Guardiola Wins with Inverted Fullbacks - Part Four

WORLD CLASS COACHING How Pep Guardiola Wins with Inverted Fullbacks By Mike Smith Table of Contents PART FOUR FLUIDITY HOW YOUR TEAM CAN USE INVERTED FULLBACKS BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER FLUIDITY Obviously most of us do not have access to the best talent, facilities and competition in our respective leagues. Many times, these factors alone are

0 Transitional Shape in a 4-4-2

By Mike Smith The idea of transition, which Merriam Webster defines as the passage from one state to another, should contain elements of both states until the full change is made. From a soccer perspective, this to me means taking an extra step between defending and all out attack especially when a quick counter opportunity is

0 The Goalkeeping Square

By Scott Housden - The drill below is superb for allowing the goalkeeper to improve their fitness within their goalkeeping environment. It can be used as a warm up for a main session on diving, or indeed as a component for a conditioning session throughout the season and also pre-season. Set Up The drill is best

0 Competitive Cone Dribbling with Finishing and 1v1 Play

By Gregg Gillies - Set Up: (20-30 yds by 10 yds per group) You'll need 6 to 24 cones, depending on the number of players you have and how many you want in a each group so they can maximize the number of touches they get. See the diagram below for how you set up the

0 The Amazing Relegation Battle

The Amazing Relegation Battle Weekly English Premier League Opinion #24 Jonny Carter gives his opinion on who is likely to get relegated in the English Premier League. What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Please let us know by commenting below.

0 Near Post Drop Off

By Mike Smith When attacking from crosses, I always want a near post and a far post run. However, IF the crossing player can get to the end line and engage the keeper themselves, the near post runner needs to drop off and open space. I am not a big fan of low percentage near post

0 Creating opportunities for centre backs to step in

By Alex Trukan With many teams able to defend effectively using compact blocks and denying any available options, it is important to find additional gains attacking team might use to break them down. One of the possibilities to gain further advantage is utilising centre backs higher up the pitch on the opposition half. It is

1 Liverpool v Tottenham Harry Kane Controversy

Manchester Utd's Random Transfer Policy Weekly English Premier League Opinion #21 Jonny Carter gives his opinion on what seems to be a very random transfer policy of Manchester United. What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Please let us know by commenting below.

0 Recover First

By Mike Smith Even if your team is a high pressure team, taking the time to get behind the ball and get in shape can still be critical to preventing counters or getting burned by a speedster. This session works with the idea of a group of 4 defenders focusing on getting in shape to deny

0 3v3+1 Game

By Alex Trukan From conditioning point of view, this practice is focused on developing an ability to produce more high intensity bursts and recover between them quickly even towards the end of the match. In other words, maintaining quick recovery between high intensity actions. From technical point of view, this possession game improves quick combination

0 Endless 4v4

By Steven Smith Setup: One grid is set up in the front third of the field using a full half field. The grid is set with the width of the 18 yard box making the width of the grid 44 yards. Execution: Four players come from the midfield stripe or a bit closer as shown in

0 Why Man City Keep Winning

0 Marking and Long Play

By Mike Smith This is one of my favorite sessions as it works on midfield movement, midfield recovery (marking ) and beating a defense with an accurate long pass. IF your team struggles in transition or playing on the ground through the midfield this will help them both improve AND recognize opportunities for a quick deep

0 Attacking the ball when Diving

By Scott Housden - Diving shape is a key component of making a successful diving save. Part of this is the ability to attack the ball when making the save. When a goalkeeper makes a simple save whilst standing with the ball shot straight at them at chest height, they are encouraged to catch the ball

0 Winning With Inverted Fullbacks Defending - Part One

WORLD CLASS COACHING Winning With Inverted Fullbacks - Defending By Luca Bertolini Table of Contents PART ONE GENERAL OBSERVATIONS PATTERN OF PLAY PART TWO PREVENT COUNTER-ATTACKS DEFEND THE BUILD UP PART THREE HIGH PRESSURE AND COUNTER PRESSING DRILLS AND EXERCISES PART FOUR DRILLS AND EXERCISES General Observations and Patterns of Play Even if inverted fullbacks have

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