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Discover An Innovative New Approach to Training Players in Spatial Awareness, Passing and Movement at Every Level.

Finally, it’s here! Coaching Team Shape in the 4-2-3-1 presents an innovative coaching system that harnesses grids to improve your team’s shape and systems of play. Featuring highly flexible grid based training, it will stop your players huddling for the ball but instead train them to use the full pitch to your advantage.

One of the biggest challenges when coaching young players is getting them to stay in position. Time and again, you see them charging for the ball, before huddling around it in a clumsy effort to get a kick. Even senior players can succumb to over enthusiasm, creating huge gaps for the opposition to exploit and break through on goal.

Coaching Team Shape in the 4-2-3-1 provides a grid based training system that solves this problem. Firstly, it introduces your players to the key principles of keeping team shape before providing a progressive series of drills that improve their understanding of what they need to do, where they need to be and why. The result is that they stay in position and passing, possession and performance all improves. .

Keeping team shape can be one of the biggest barriers to success, at any level. After practicing the drills in Coaching Team Shape in the 4-2-3-1 you can use this to your advantage by creating a team that can pass and move smoothly and slice through disorganised teams that simply charge for the ball.

How to Overcome the #1 Problem in Youth Soccer and Create Teams Able to Keep their Shape and Take Advantage of the Full Pitch to create More Scoring Opportunities.

Coaches can rejoice - an answer to the biggest problem in youth soccer has arrived! Coaching Team Shape in the 3-3-1 Formation provides a complete guide on how to improve spatial awareness, player movement and to give players the vital discipline to keep the team's shape. No longer will the entire team charge for the ball, leaving vast gaps for the opposition to exploit. Instead, you’ll have a team that stays n position and uses space to create more goal scoring opportunities.

Are you fed up of seeing your players charge headlong for the ball? Do they lack awareness of what’s going on in the space around them, and keep creating huge gaps in your defense? This is a frustration shared by youth coaches across the country. Giving enthusiastic young players the discipline to stay in position can be a challenge. They naturally want to get a kick of ball at every opportunity. Thankfully, help has arrived with Sean Pearson's new grid based development system. 

Coaching Team Shape in the 3-3-1 Formation provides a complete coaching guide for training players at all levels to improve their spatial awareness, communication and movement off the ball. Harnessing grids and specially designed drills, the book explains exactly how to improve your players' awareness of how to make the best use of the space around them and to stay in position so you can keep the ball moving and use the whole of the pitch to your advantage.

From working through the drills in this book and explaining the theory behind them, you’ll be able to develop a team that's able to find space, perform smooth passing moves and create more goal scoring chances through keeping its shape. Whether you coach at youth or a more senior level, Coaching Team Shape in the 3-3-1 Formation offers the blueprint to stopping your players from charging, head down, for the ball but instead playing with intelligence and discipline so you can dominate sides still struggling to rein in over enthusiastic players.

Coaching Team Shape in the 3-3-1 Formation is born from its author Sean Pearson's lifelong passion for coaching. He grew up watching his father’s vast collection of Liverpool games from the 1980's onwards, a period during which they were England's most dominate team. From watching and analyzing their style of play, Pearson developed an appreciation for the benefits of smoothing passing and playing as a team.

Pearson first started coaching at the young age of 16, helping to train his local team. This continued while at Oxford Brookes University, where he helped to train the university side. Upon graduating, Pearon continued to pursue his passion for coaching at Sheffield United's Academy, coaching junior sides up to the age of 14. During his time at Sheffield United, Pearson was able to observe professional level coaching firsthand and gain his UEFA B License.

Unleash the attacking power of the 4-2-3-1 with an analysis of the elite teams and a complete set of formation focused drills for more creativity, better decision making and more goals

It's arrived! Discover how to harness the tactical advantages of the 4-2-3-1 so your team can attack with more pace and penetration and replicate the playing style of the elite sides. Attacking in the 4-2-3-1 combines a tactical guide full of drills to improve your tactical understanding and technique at scoring goals in the formation taking over elite soccer.

This is part of our "Quick Guide" series of eBooks, designed to be short and sweet and an easy read with each eBook focusing on a specific topic. This eBook gets right to the point of attacking in the 4-2-3-1, and because it is a quicker read than a traditional size book, we are able to offer it to you at less than half the regular price.

The 4-2-3-1 is rapidly spreading to elite sides all over the world. Borussia Dortmund, Arsenal and Bayern Munich now all use this formation to create complex attacking moves that bamboozle defenses and enable them to score goals in abundance. If you've ever wanted your players to open up space like Sergio Busquet and Messi, to find killer passes like Neymar or to get the ball to the forwards like Ozil, you can discover how in this special book.

Attacking in the 4-2-3-1 provides a complete guide to harnessing one of the most popular formations in elite soccer. The first half provides a tactical analysis, with screenshots of real games used to explain how to attack in transition, how to attack against the grain, getting the ball into the box from the sides and all the other tactical aspects of attacking in the 4-2-3-1. This is followed up with an extensive collection of drills you can use to develop the mindset and technique your players need to harness the formation to its full goal scoring potential.  Order now and you could be reading all this information in minutes.

So if you want to improve the creativity and decision making of your players and score more goals from areas all over the final third, Attacking in the 4-2-3-1 shows you how.

Unlock the attacking instincts of the 4-3-3 with these drills focused on developing the technical, tactical and offensive skills that take the formation to the next level

If you love to score goals, you'll love the drills in this book! Training Sessions for the 4-3-3 is a special book focused on developing the mindset, technical skills and attacking attitude needed to play the 4-3-3 to devastating effect. Every aspect of the 4-3-3 is covered, so you can deliver more focused training session and give your players the skills to score more goals on match day.
 
Are you struggling to improve the attacking instincts of your team when playing the 4-3-3? Do they run out of ideas on how to get the ball into the box? Or how to beat the opposition to get through on goal? If so, you will want to check out the drills and exercises in Training Sessions for the 4-3-3.

Based on seven months of research and training with a professional Academy team, this book reveals all the drills and exercises you need to transform your team into a devastating attacking force. This highly focused book is packed to the brim with training drills for improving different aspects of the 4-3-3. This includes finalization exercises to improving passing and dribbling; technical circuits that mirror real game situations in the 4-3-3; tactical exercises for developing the situational awareness of where to play the ball and offensive plays for getting the ball into the box.

Fear teams playing the 4-2-3-1 no longer! Discover how the hidden weaknesses of this formation can be exploited and how teams playing it can be beaten, time after time

Finally, a game plan for beating the 4-2-3-1! This book provides the blueprint for exploiting the defensive frailties and playing tendencies that make the 4-2-3-1 more vulnerable than most coaches realize. Bring your coaching knowledge up-to-date on how today’s dominant elite level formation can be defeated and gain the insights you need to set your team up to win.

We've all watched how the 4-2-3-1 has evolved to become the formation of choice for many of the world’s elite teams. We've all nodded in agreement when we’re told that the 4-4-2 will soon be confined to the dustbin of history and that fluid, rotational formations are the future. Well, we have news for you, because we have the blueprint for how the 4-2-3-1 can be beaten.

Beating the 4-2-3-1: Analyzing the Strengths and Weaknesses of the 4-2-3-1 and How to Coach Your Team to Defeat It is a special book that reveals the weaknesses, frailties and blind spots of this popular elite level formation. It reveals how teams like Bayern Munich, Manchester United and Real Madrid might soon find their midfield wings clipped and defensive midfielders bamboozled into being out of position by teams that know the secret to how the 4-2-3-1 can be beaten.

Discover the inner workings of the 4-2-3-1 and why it has, up until now, been so effective against more rigid sides. Then find out how you can overcome and exploit the weaknesses of this common and modern style of play, with an extensive set of drills for training your players in the tactics needed to beat it.

Unlock the secrets to the Barcelona scoring machine with an in-depth analysis of how it builds its attacks along with drills for replicating their devastating system in your own team

Would you like to score like Barcelona? Now you can find out how! Coaching the Barcelona 4-3-3 - Attacking is an eBook that tells you everything you need to know about how to build attacks from the back and create goal scoring opportunities like the Catalan champions. Discover how their system works and apply it to your own side so you can play the Barca way and push the score line in your favor.

When it comes to scoring goals there simply aren't enough superlatives in the dictionary to describe the Barcelona goal scoring machine. It helps when you have a genius like Messi in the side, but he’s not a one man show. His goal scoring record comes from the Barcelona system that creates opportunities in abundance all around the box. Now you can discover how the Barcelona scoring machine works and how to apply it to your own team in Coaching the Barcelona 4-3-3 - Attacking.

As well as the eBook, we are including almost 60 minutes of video analysis at no extra cost.

Coaching the Barcelona 4-3-3 - Attacking is an eBook focused on how Barcelona builds its attacks and the skills you need to adopt their system for your own team. It looks at all the key elements of the Barcelona style of play, which is admired by coaches all over the world. Along with a tactical analysis of the Barcelona attack, broken down into three stages, the eBook is packed with drills to train your players in the principles and skills needed to score goals like Barcelona.

So if your team is struggling for ideas on how to create more goal scoring opportunities, why not learn from the best goal scoring machine around? Coaching the Barcelona 4-3-3 - Attacking is the blueprint you need to unlock the secrets to how Barcelona score so frequently and how to adapt their playing style to your own team and tip the score line in your favor.

Take your knowledge of the 4-2-3-1 to the next level with this advanced tactical guide. Discover how the 4-2-3-1 is used to devastating effect by Manchester United and Real Madrid and advanced drills for coaching your players in this highly attacking and flexible formation.

Finally, it’s here! Coaching the 4-2-3-1 Advanced Tactics provides you with an in-depth look at the formation that is dominating European soccer. Packed with tactical insights on the specific patterns of play of Manchester United and Real Madrid, Coaching the 4-2-3-1 Advanced Tactics shows you how you can utilize this highly flexible formation to outwit teams playing a traditional 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 and to create more scoring opportunities.

The 4-2-3-1 formation is much more than just an attractive playing style. This formation is fast consigning the 4-4-2 and 4-3-3 to the history books after it was used by three of the semifinalists in the Euro 2012 tournament. The 4-2-3-1 is now used by many of Europe’s elite club sides, including Chelsea, Manchester United and Real Madrid, because it enables them to break through teams rooted to the spot playing more dated, rigid formations.

Coaching the 4-2-3-1 Advanced Tactics is packed with tactical insights and an analysis of the patterns of play of Manchester United and Real Madrid, both in defense and in attack. Utilizing in-depth analysis, real screenshots from actual games and detailed diagrams, this book shows you exactly how elite players, such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Xavi Alonso, play in this formation and how it enables them to play in a more flexible, attacking style that can rip opposition teams apart.

In addition, Coaching the 4-2-3-1 Advanced Tactics provides fifteen complete training sessions for drilling your teams in how to play this devastating formation. This includes defensive training sessions on pressing triggers, mid defending shapes and controlling line depth along with attacking drills on triangulation, third man runs and attacking fullbacks.

Players Roles and Responsibilities in the 4 - 4 -  2: Attacking and Defending Combo provides an in depth description of how to train your team to attack and defend using this formation. The 4 - 4 - 2 is the most commonly used formation throughout the world. This book will help you teach your players to defend better individually and as a team.

The book begins with sessions that train players to attack and defend individually and then in groups. The sessions build from working with individual attackers and defenders and progress to small groups. These practices lead to working in 11 v 11 scenarios to ensure that each player understands their responsibilities within the team.

The sessions begin as unopposed exercises to allow you to focus on the key factors necessary for effective play. As the players gain confidence opponents are added to increase the challenge. Functional training and phase of play exercises put the players in specific game situations so that they can practice their reaction to every circumstance they will face in the game. Many small-sided games are also included to allow the players see those situations in a game environment. This progressive training method will allow the players to take the principles they learn in practice and apply them on game day.

These book are authored by Wayne Harrison of Soccer Awareness. Harrison has a wealth of knowledge at the highest levels of the game both as a professional player and professional coach. A former Academy Director at Blackpool F.C. in the English Championship League, he is a best-selling author who currently has nine coaching books to his name. Harrison holds the prestigious UEFA 'A' license, as well as a Bachelors degree in Applied Physiology and Sports Psychology. He also presents at coaching symposiums worldwide including the NSCAA Convention, the World Class Coaching International Seminar; and many state symposiums throughout the United States.

Coaching The English Professional League 4 - 4 - 2 is the most comprehensive book ever written about the 4 - 4 - 2 formation. The 4 - 4 - 2 is the preferred formation for just about every team in the English Premier League. The 4 - 4 - 2 is also used by the majority of the world's top coaches and teams such as European giants Juventus, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich as well as the national teams of Brazil, England, USA, Italy, etc.

This book will explain how the 4 - 4 - 2 formation is played, why it is so successful and why it is the formation of choice for the world-s top teams. Author David Williams explains the roles and responsibilities of the defenders, midfielders and forwards both in attacking and defending situations. He describes many practices that he has used during his vast coaching experience in the English Premier League that will show you how to train your players to play using the 4 - 4 - 2 formation. These practices start with 2 v 2 exercises and build all the way up to 11 v 11 conditioned games.

This book explains the different ways the 4 - 4 - 2 formation is played by Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal, the three giants of the English Premier League. For instance, he shows how the fullbacks at Manchester United play differently than those at Liverpool and how the midfielders at Arsenal play different roles than the midfielders at Liverpool. These, and many more differences are explained throughout this exceptional book.

This book is a must for any serious soccer coach.

Author David Williams has extensive coaching experience in the English Premier League, coaching at Leeds United, Everton, Norwich City, and most recently with the Manchester United U19 team. Williams also has experience in the international arena as the assistant coach of the Welsh National Team.

This book deals with players' roles and responsibilities within different systems of play. It covers both the attacking and defending duties of each player. All formations (systems of play) are covered including the 4-4-2, 4-3-3, 3-4-3, 3-5-2, etc. So whether your team plays with four or three defenders; three, four or five midfielders or one, two or three forwards, this book will show you in detail the responsibilities for each of those players.

This book is an ideal training guide for players and coaches. It will enhance your overall knowledge and the player's knowledge of what is expected them and what their role in the team is. Also included are specific drills and game related activities you can use in your training sessions to help your players train for their specific position.

Systems of Play: Coaching the 3 - 5 - 2 Formation
Coaching the 3 - 5 - 2 formation provides a unique insight into the development of tactics and strategies employed in the professional game in order to create a successful team.

Through several detailed chapters, over 100 pages with over 100 illustrations, this book shows examples of how professional and national teams from Europe play using the 3 - 5 - 2 formation. It is a must for all serious soccer coaches wishing to develop their team or knowledge of systems of play further.

It captures the essence of team organization through a clear and logical progression of information that demonstrates in a step by step format how players as individuals, as small groups and as a team can be organized effectively both defensively and offensively.

It is written in a user friendly format by coaches for coaches to ensure that the principles referred to can be easily understood and more importantly easily applied by all coaches working in 11 Vs 11 at all levels.

Find out how to improve your formation's flexibility, dynamism and attacking creativity with a formation used by today’s elite coaches to counter dated, static formations in Coaching the 4-2-3-1.

Now released for forward thinking coaches! NEW BOOK - Coaching the 4-2-3-1 shows you why the formation is becoming one of the most dominant styles of play in modern soccer. Now you can discover how to train your players to utilize this highly flexible and attacking formation in Coaching the 4-2-3-1. Packed with soccer drills, diagrams on setting up your team and guidance on the formation's philosophy and playing mindset, this book provides you with everything you need to know about playing the 4-2-3-1.

Plus get a FREE eBook that takes a look at how Wenger and Ferguson both use different versions of the 4-2-3-1 with Arsenal and Man Utd.

Is your team stuck playing a predictable, rigid style of soccer your opponent's find easy to counter? Do you yearn to play an expansive attacking style of soccer, like Real Madrid, Manchester United or Brazil? The 4-2-3-1 is an innovative and highly flexible formation used by many elite teams over the last decade to devastating effect. Whether you coach players in top divisions or recreational sides, playing the 4-2-3-1 can enable you to adopt a more dynamic and creative style of soccer that can take your team to the next level.

Coaching the 4-2-3-1 is a book focused on developing both your team's understanding of how to play this fast paced formation effectively. Soccer is a game that is constantly changing, with new formations and philosophies evolving to challenge the status quo. The 4-2-3-1 is a formation that is now used by many of the world's elite coaches, like Jose Mourinho, Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson,  to counter the 4-4-2 and other more static formations.

Coaching the 4-2-3-1 shows you how coaches at the top level implement the formation, both in defense and attack. Packed with more than 30 training sessions and 150 diagrams, this book will show you how to train your team to play the ball wide, how to look for overlaps, when to penetrate the forward line and all the other aspects of playing this highly flexible formation successfully.

This Two-Book Set Gives a Step By Step Coaching Guide on How to Train Your Team to Play the Aggressive, Free flowing 4-3-3  Formation, both in Defense and Attack.

Wow! If you want to know how to coach the 4-3-3, look no further. The Player’s Roles and Responsibilities in the 4-3-3 coaching series provides you with everything you need to know about the styles of playing, philosophy and training methods for playing the 4-3-3 formation. From creating a shifting back line through to swamping the opponent’s defense, everything is covered to provide you with a comprehensive 4-3-3 coaching program.

The 4-3-3 is one of the most popular formations in soccer today, utilized by teams like Holland, Chelsea and Inter Milan to devastating effect. Its flexibility and attacking philosophy makes it a tantalizing option for coaches wishing to increase their scoring opportunities and to entertain the fans. However, players can easily get confused on their unique roles and responsibilities in this formation when they are used to playing a traditional 4-4-2. Without proper training on how to play the 4-3-3, this can lead to major problems on game day.

To aid coaches to train their teams in the 4-3-3, author Tony Englund has created a series of books which explain in exhaustive detail exactly how to train and utilize the 4-3-3 like the world’s great attacking sides.

These two books in the Player’s Roles and Responsibilities in the 4-3-3 series are packed with training exercises, detailed explanations and tactical insights. Literally everything you need to know about the 4-3-3 is covered, providing you with a complete training program on one of the soccer world’s most exciting, free flowing formations.

Learn from an English Premier League championship winning coach! In this special set, Manchester City's Assistant Manager David Platt provides you with a tactical playbook for exploiting and beating your opponent’s formation.

This book illustrates how to effectively coach your team to beat an opposing team that is playing the 3-5-2 system. The 3-5-2 is one of the most common formations used by teams all over the world. Regardless of the formation you employ with your team, understanding how to tactically beat the 3-5-2 formation is a must for any coach.

We begin by recognizing the strengths of the 3-5-2, how to negate them, and how to take advantage of its weaknesses. After a brief summary of the main components of the 3-5-2, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of it, we look at some effective tactical planning to play against and beat it.

Inside you will find many training sessions showing how you can practice those tactics on the training field, through sessions and drills designed to effectively prepare in a manner to overcome the system.

The Author
David Platt had one of the finest playing careers of his era. He played with Arsenal and Aston Villa in England and Juventus, Bari and Sampdoria in Italy. Platt also played 62 games for the England National Team of which 20 of them were as captain.

Platt also coached in both England with Nottingham Forest and Italy with Sampdoria. Between 2001 and 2004 Platt was the head coach of the England U21 National Team where he helped develop the talents of John Terry, Jermain Defoe, Shaun Wright-Phillips amongst others.

Learn from an English Premier League championship winning coach! In this special set, Manchester City's Assistant Manager David Platt provides you with a tactical playbook for exploiting and beating your opponent’s formation.

This book illustrates how to effectively coach your team to beat an opposing team that is playing the 4-3-3 system. The 4-3-3 is one of the most common formations used by teams all over the world. Regardless of the formation you employ with your team, understanding how to tactically beat the 4-3-3 formation is a must for any coach.

We begin by recognizing the strengths of the 4-3-3, how to negate them, and how to take advantage of its weaknesses. After a brief summary of the main components of the 4-3-3, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of it, we look at some effective tactical planning to play against and beat it. To do this we look at and compare how the world's top teams like Manchester United, A.C. Milan, Arsenal, Real Madrid and the Portuguese and England National Teams have success against the 4-3-3 system.

Inside you will also find many training sessions showing how you can practice those tactics on the training field, through sessions and drills designed to effectively prepare in a manner to overcome the system.

The Author
David Platt had one of the finest playing careers of his era. He played with Arsenal and Aston Villa in England and Juventus, Bari and Sampdoria in Italy. Platt also played 62 games for the England National Team of which 20 of them were as captain.

Platt also coached in both England with Nottingham Forest and Italy with Sampdoria. Between 2001 and 2004 Platt was the head coach of the England U21 National Team where he helped develop the talents of John Terry, Jermain Defoe, Shaun Wright-Phillips amongst others.

Learn from an English Premier League championship winning coach! In this special set, Manchester City's Assistant Manager David Platt provides you with a tactical playbook for exploiting and beating your opponent’s formation.

This book illustrates how to effectively coach your team to beat an opposing team that is playing the 4-4-2 system (including the 4-5-1). The 4-4-2 is perhaps the most common formation used by teams all over the world. Regardless of the formation you employ with your team, understanding how to tactically beat the 4-4-2 formation is a must for any coach.

We begin by recognizing the strengths of the 4-4-2, how to negate them, and how to take advantage of its weaknesses. After a brief summary of the main components of the 4-4-2, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of it, we look at some effective tactical planning to play against and beat it. To do this we look at and compare how the world's top teams like Chelsea, Arsenal, Real Madrid and the Portuguese and Italian National Teams have success against the 4-4-2 system.

Inside you will also find many training sessions showing how you can practice those tactics on the training field, through sessions and drills designed to effectively prepare in a manner to overcome the system.

The Author
David Platt had one of the finest playing careers of his era. He played with Arsenal and Aston Villa in England and Juventus, Bari and Sampdoria in Italy. Platt also played 62 games for the England National Team of which 20 of them were as captain.

Platt also coached in both England with Nottingham Forest and Italy with Sampdoria. Between 2001 and 2004 Platt was the head coach of the England U21 National Team where he helped develop the talents of John Terry, Jermain Defoe, Shaun Wright-Phillips amongst others.

Get inside the mind’s of two of soccer’s greatest tactical wizards in this special book which analyses the 4-4-2 formation of Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United Vs. the 4-3-3 of Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea.

If you’ve ever wanted to get a glimpse inside the minds of two of soccer’s greatest tactical geniuses, now you can in this special book!  In 4-4-2 vs 4-3-3 you will discover the devastating tactics and strategies used by Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea on their way to two English Premier League title runs and why Manchester United, to this day, continue to be the dominant force in the English Premier League.

Who is the greatest manager? Alex Ferguson, with his 12 league titles, 9 cups and 2 Champions League Trophies during an unsurpassed two decades at Manchester United, or Jose Mourinho, who won 2 consecutive league titles, 3 cups and is one of only a few managers to prevent Manchester United from winning the title. This is an argument too contentious for any book to answer. But what this special book, 4-4-2 vs 4-3-3, does do is to analysis in-depth the differing formations, strategies and tactics used by the two managers.

Through assessing the key players, the way in which the team adapted to new signings and how both managers adjusted their team’s play to get the results they needed, 4-4-2 vs 4-3-3 enables you to get inside the mind of these two great Premier League managers. In addition, you’ll discover valuable insights into how the 4-4-2 can be used to nullify and exploit the weaknesses of the 4-3-3 formation, and vice versa. This can give you that extra tactical edge the next time you’re preparing to play against a team that plays either of these formations.

This book is perfect for any coach wishing to understand exactly how Mourinho’s Chelsea and Ferguson’s Manchester United were able to dominate opponents and how you can apply their philosophies and tactics to improve your own team’s performance.

Discover How To Coach Players in the 4-3-3 Formation and Mirror the High Tempo Offensive Play of Europe’s Top Club Teams, including Barcelona, Chelsea and Arsenal.
  
It's here! Your comprehensive guide to coaching players in the 4-3-3 formation. This special book, A Coach’s Guide to the 4-3-3, covers everything you need to know about coaching the 4-3-3, including the formation’s development to the forefront of European club soccer, how it is utilized by the world’s best managers and soccer training drills and exercises which will enable your team utilize the 4-3-3 to be more offensive, flexible and difficult to defend against.

The 4-3-3, and its many variations, has become arguably the most popular formation in the modern European club game. Some of the world’s greatest club teams, including Barcelona, Arsenal and Chelsea, use it to devastating effect to rip through the center of teams playing a traditional 4-4-2. However, coaching players in the 4-3-3 system is far from easy. It requires an in-depth understanding of the different responsibilities players have in different phases, how to develop intricate triangular passing movements through the midfield and how to train players in the playmaker role in front of the back four.

Whether you're used to the traditional 4-4-2 and would like to discover how to coach the 4-3-3 or are already using the 4-3-3 and would like to know more about how it's used by the world’s top coaches, A Coach's Guide to the 4-3-3 gives you a complete tactical overview of the system. It includes an explanation on how to organize your players, the roles and responsibilities of each position, how it's used at the highest level of club soccer and how you can coach the 4-3-3, with a comprehensive selection of soccer drills and exercise.

Is your defense conceding goals like a broken sieve? Discover how to plug the gaps through adopting the tactics, formations and soccer training drills of the best defenders around – The Italians!

For leaking defenses everywhere, your solution has arrived! Zonal Defending the Italian Way provides an in-depth look at the Italian back four and their dedication to total team defending. This comprehensive guide looks at the history, tactics and soccer training exercises used by top teams in Italy’s Serie A, including AS Roma, Inter Milan, Juventus and AC Milan, and is packed with insights you can use to build your own team’s strength from the back.

The Brazilians are known for their trickery and technical skill. The Germans for their organization and discipline. But when it comes to defense, then the Italians are the best around. So if you’re struggling for ideas on how to tighten your backline, how to concede fewer goals and how to win more games, then the tactics used by the best Italian coaches of the last two decades are the perfect ones to study.

Zonal Defending the Italian Way provides an in-depth look at the Italian back four and their philosophy of total team defending. This includes a look at the history of Italian’s dedication to defense above all else; how it has evolved to accommodate the more attacking style of football that modern audiences crave for and the strategies used by many of Italy’s leading coaches, such as Arrigo Sacchi, Marcello Lippi and Fabio Capello.

In addition, Zonal Defending the Italian Way is jam packed with soccer drills and exercises that were actually used to train the national team in Italy’s 1994 and 2006 World Cup campaigns. This makes this book an ideal addition to your library, whether you’re a student of the game or an elite level coach, because it will enrich your understanding of the Italian defensive game and how you can apply their World Cup winning drills to improve your own team’s defending.

Discover How You Can Harness the Creativity, Rapid Pace and Technicality of Futsal to Fast Track Your Players’ Development and Create Your Own Ronaldo or Messi.

Futsal skills training has arrived! Futsal to Soccer, Everything you wanted to know about coaching Futsal...and how you can use it to develop better soccer players is your comprehensive guide to using futsal as a training tool. Discover how you can accelerate player improvements with futsal, a game that’s been instrumental to creating many of the world’s most gifted players. 

Players like Ronaldo, Messi and the legendary Pele weren’t born superstars. They were developed into them through endless hours playing futsal. It was on small, densely packed pitches that these players learned how to dribble as though the ball was glued to their feet, to develop rapid decision making and to shoot with laser pointed accuracy. All of these players attribute their success to the tight skills they developed playing futsal from a young age. Now you can harness the benefits of this fast paced game for your own team.

Futsal to Soccer, Everything you wanted to know about coaching Futsal...and how you can use it to develop better soccer players provides a complete guide to using futsal in training. This two part book provides a comprehensive look at how the principles, tactics and techniques of futsal can be harnessed to make training more fun, motivating and effective, and enable you to create players with silky skills and the soccer brain to match.

If your players are bored of running around cones, Futsal to Soccer could be exactly the guide you’ve been looking for. With the pace of the modern game rising all the time, developing players with the technical skills and reactions of futsal players will also give your team the boost it needs to dominate games and make the opposition look as though they’re standing still.

Discover How You Can Run Specialist Training Sessions Without Having to Expand Your Coaching Staff

Wow, finally a special teams approach to training! The Coach's Guide to Position Specific Training is a unique guide on how to run specialist training sessions like elite level coaches. It shows you how to run sessions that will develop your players in the specialist skills for their position, all in the same session.

Soccer is one of the most innovative sports. But it lags behind when it comes to position specific training. Unfortunately, not all of us have the budgets of elite level sides, and can afford to hire specialist coaches for defenders, the midfield and strikers, as well as for goalkeepers. Thankfully, you no longer have to. Our new book, The Coach's Guide to Position Specific Training, reveals how to run specialist training for different positions all in the same session.

Split into three parts, it’s packed with position specific drills that are focused on the skills, mindset and scenarios for defenders, midfielders and forwards. This allows you to split your squad into groups so they can focus on the key skills for their position and get bigger improvements from every session.

Whether you want to improve defensive transitions, turn your midfield into a well oiled engine room or enhance the technical skills of your forwards, The Coach's Guide to Position Specific Training has the drills that help you do it.

If You Train Young Players or Need to Reinforce Your Team’s Grasp of the Basics, Your Ultimate Guide to Coaching Soccer’s Core Principles has Arrived.

Coaching the Principles of Soccer – Attack and Defense is a complete plan on how to build strong foundations on which your players’ future development can grow. Created by two coaches with international experience in developing young players, this book covers everything you need to know on how to drill your players in soccer’s core principles.

When you coach young players, it can be difficult to know where to start. Too often the focus is on developing technique, and trying to skip past the basics. But this can just stunt a young player’s development. When they don’t understand the game’s core principles, they won’t know where they need to be and why so they can harness their technique. To solve this age old problem, two experts in youth coaching have created Coaching the Principles of Soccer – Attack and Defense. This book presents a structured approach to developing an understanding of how the game is played and to provide them with a solid base on which they can develop.

Coaching the Principles of Soccer – Attack and Defense provides the same training on the core elements of soccer its authors provide at the Nike Sports Camp and Education Football seminars. Harnessing detailed diagrams, coaching points and progressions, it provides a complete set of drills for developing the core principles of soccer. This includes drills for penetration, support, defensive compactness, concentration and more.

The drills in Coaching the Principles of Soccer – Attack and Defense will enable you to develop a team with a richer understanding of what to do, when to do it and why, in every phase of the game. The drills also provide a strong foundation on which you can add more technical drills and strategic play, and build players with coaching brains to match those in their feet.

Discover how to give your youth players soccer intelligence along with improvements in technique and stamina and avoid the costly mistakes most coaches make

The blueprint to smarter youth soccer training has arrived! Soccer Intelligence, Developing the Tactical Decision Maker provides a complete guide on how to give young players the training they need to be able to make fast, accurate decisions and keep possession better. This book explains how you can overcome the mistakes most youth coaches make by helping young players to develop the soccer brain to partner improvements in technique

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Many youth coaches make the same mistake: They pursue short-term goals over long term development. Too often the focus is on technique and conditioning rather than on developing the soccer brain players need to achieve their potential. Whilst players may emerge from the foundation stage of their training physically fit and with good ball skills, they often lack the intelligence then need to solve problems, anticipate the flow of the game and make the right decisions on where to play the ball. The result is players with good ball control but without the soccer brain to use the ball wisely.  

Soccer Intelligence, Developing the Tactical Decision Maker provides a blueprint for improving how players should be coached at youth level. It explains how they can be trained to develop the skills in their brain as well as those in their feet. Topics covered include the five aspects of a youth player’s learning process, the mindset needed to play each position effectively and how to run training sessions that develop soccer intelligence. In addition, Soccer Intelligence is packed with drills and training exercises that will put theory into practice, and make improvements to your players’ decision making and smarter teamwork.

Helping young players to develop smart soccer brains is one of the hardest challenges coaches face. But it’s just as vital to a player’s development as technique or stamina. Soccer Intelligence demonstrates how to do it, with a blueprint that could revolutionize how you coach youth players at your club.

Harness the rapid improvements of small group training with drills that will give your players more touches and more time on the ball in every session

Finally, the blueprint for small group training is here! Competitive Small Group Training is a special guide on how to gain the accelerated improvements from small group training. Packed with other 70 drills and numerous progressions, this book provides everything you need to improve your players’ technique, tactical awareness and more through the intensity of small sided training.

Are you struggling to get the improvements you want in training? Are your players not getting enough time on the ball to advance their skills? If so, maybe it’s time your players stopped waiting in lines and spent more time practicing through performing small sided group training drills.

Competitive Small Group Training is a special book focused on small group training. Comprising of over 70 drills and exercises, with multiple progressions, this book provides everything you need to gain rapid advances in your team’s performance. Divided into sections on technique, tactics and stamina, the drills in Competitive Small Group Training include defensive footwork, triangular passing moves, dead ball situations and more. All of the drills have been carefully selected to enable you to create dynamic training environments that will raise the intensity and give your players more time on the ball in every session.

Competitive Small Group Training also features a forward by former US international player Tony Senneh. All of the proceeds from this book go towards the Senneh Foundation, which helps disadvantaged kids to learn valuable life lessons from the game of soccer. So buying Competitive Small Group Training will not only improve your players’ abilities but will also help kids less fortunate to gain the physical and mental benefits of the beautiful game.

Give yourself the tactical edge in multiple areas with this handpicked selection of articles by our expert coaches on the best tactics for winning soccer
 
Wow, what a collection! Tactics for Winning Soccer is a compendium of articles packed with valuable coaching insights on elite teams and training sessions that will help your team to replicate their style of play. Discover how to press the ball like Barcelona, how to create unpredictable attacks like Manchester City, how to open up space by passing like Arsenal and much more in this handpicked collection of expert articles.

The game of soccer never stands still. You constantly need to be advancing your knowledge and learning about new methods, tactics and drills that will improve your training sessions and your team’s performance. To give your coaching brain a boost, WORLD CLASS COACHING has assembled a compilation of some of the best articles produced from our stable of expert coaches.

Tactics for Winning Soccer is a book packed with tactical analysis of the world’s top teams and functional training sessions. Totaling 25 expertly written articles, in this book you will discover a wide array of insights on coaching the modern game. This includes how to train your team to counter attack like the elite sides, how Spain’s highly flexible 4-2-3-1 enabled it to dominate opponents in Euro 2012 and how Italy defeated tournament favorites Germany. What’s more, the book also features functional drills you can use to coach your team to replicate the playing style of elite sides.

Tactics for Winning Soccer can provide you with a fast track way of bringing your coaching knowledge up to date. So if you want to discover some of the hot topics that coaches are discussing in the modern game, Tactics for Winning Soccer will make a valuable addition to your coaching library.

Unlock the secrets of 'The False 9' and replicate the playing style of elite attacking teams with a star player able to create more goal scoring opportunities in and around the box

Finally, the secrets of the false 9 are revealed in this great new book! The False 9 is a unique book focused on revealing the tactics and techniques needed to develop a withdrawn forward in your side. Discover how to create your own Cruyff, Messi or Fabregas with insights and training sessions focused on developing a superstar player in this unique position

(Includes NINE free analysis videos taking a look at how Messi, Fabregas, Eriksen and others all play the role of the withdrawn forward)

Spectators and coaches alike can only marvel as Messi bursts through from nowhere to score or Fabregas finds that magic pass to unlock defenses. Whilst both players undoubtedly possess exceptional natural talents, it is also the system built around them that allows them to play this way. Now you can discover how to create the system to play a withdrawn superstar forward in your own team in The False 9.

This book covers everything you need for developing a highly effective withdrawn forward in your team. From how elite teams utilize it through to an analysis of star players in this position along with training sessions focused on developing the position, everything is covered on how to develop the false 9.

So if you’ve ever watched in awe as Messi, Fabregas and other superstar withdrawn forwards create goal scoring opportunities in abundance, now you can discover how to create this position in your own team in this special book. 

Whether you want to play long ball, counter attack or possession, Developing a Style of Play shows you how to build a style of play for any formation based on the core principles of soccer

Finally, it's here! A book that shows you how to play whatever style you want! Instead of a set series of drills, formations and playing styles, Developing a Style of Play focuses on training your team in the core principles of soccer. Discover how to play any formation you want better and more effectively with this flexible and modern guide to coaching.

There's no shortage of soccer coaching books to choose from. But the problem is that they all focus on one specific formation of system of play, with drills and exercises restricted to playing that system. The drawback of this approach is that it ignores the game's randomness. There are too many variables and situations that can occur on the pitch which your players will be ill prepared for if their training is focused on one set formation. To counter this problem, you need to train your players in the fundamental principles of soccer, which are applicable whether you want to play long-ball, counter attacking or a tika taka style.

Developing a Style of Play: Using the core principles of soccer to build your style of play, is a unique soccer coaching book that's focused on coaching your team in the core principles of soccer, rather than a specific formation. This approach provides you with the framework for building a style of play for any system you want to use. What's more, grounding your players in the game’s core principles will lead to faster decision making and better reactions no matter what your opposition decides to do.

Whoever controls midfield controls the game. Discover how to utilize the triangle midfield to control possession and replicate the playing style of the world's most technical team

Finally, it's here! Triangle Midfield - Functional Training for Midfielders is your complete guide to mastering one of the most powerful weapons in the advanced coach's arsenal. This special book covers how the triangle midfield can be utilized in many different formations, its functionality and how to train players to use it in possession, defense and attack

Plus get a FREE eBook with 10 additional exercises and small-sided games to train the core techniques and tactics required to play with a midfield triangle

Did you know that whoever controls the midfield wins 75 percent of their games? It's true. Whether you play with a 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3, 4-5-1 or any other formation, the midfield is critical to your success. Statistically the midfield gets more touches of the ball than any other position. So control of the midfield means you can control the game. What’s more, if you have a three man midfield you can reduce the touches of the opposing team while increasing those of your own. It’s why a three man midfield is fast becoming the most dominant shape in the game today and the key to success for many of the world’s best teams, such as Spain, Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Triangle Midfield - Functional Training for Midfielders tells you everything you need to know about implementing a three man midfield effectively. It covers all the formations associated with a three man midfield in depth, explaining the functionality if the formation along with an extensive collection of drills and exercise for training your team to play with a three man midfield in possession and in defense.

Spain's victory at the World Cup and two European Championships in a row was no accident. Discover the players, tactics and culture that have made Spain today's dominant soccer nation.
 
Your complete guide to Spanish soccer has arrived! Coaching Spanish Soccer - The player development and training methodology that has made Spain the #1 Soccer Nation in the World tells you everything you need to know about Spain's rise to dominance. With an in-depth look at the players, formation and the infrastructure that created a golden era of success, this comprehensive book is the ultimate guide to unlocking the secrets to Spain's success and how you can apply them to your own team.

Spain won Euro 2008, the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 in scintillating style. Favorites for every tournament, they steamrolled through the opposition thanks to their accurate passing, rapid pace and technical superiority. Such was their confidence that they even played games without a striker. But Spain's success is no surprise to anybody following their progress. It comes from two decades of gradual improvements in tactics, coaching and infrastructure. Spain now provides the blueprint for coaches at every level on how to develop a winning side.

Coaching Spanish Soccer is one of the most comprehensive books you will find on Spanish soccer. Along with profiling the players and tactics, the book's author, Jordi Pascual, digs deep into the foundations of why Spain has arisen from obscurity to dominate soccer on the global stage, at both club and national level.

From the adoption of Holland's concept of "Total Football" to the national team's to the grassroots coaching that continues to develop stars of the future, Coaching Spanish Soccer is your ultimate guide to adopting the most attractive, skilful and devastating style of soccer in the world today.

How do these and all other EPL players learn to play at such breakneck speed? It's down to their training sessions. The climate in England plus the intense level of competition of the EPL forces the teams to practice at a great speed of play.

Improving Your Teams' Speed of Play contains 124 drills, exercises and small-sided games that Coach David Williams has conducted during his many years as a coach with various English Premier League teams.

David Williams, currently the Technical Director of the Norwich City Academy, has extensive coaching experience in the English Premier League. He has coached at Leeds United, Everton, Norwich City, and the Manchester United U19 team. Williams also has experience in the international arena having coached the Welsh National Team and is currently the assistant coach of the Welsh National U21, U19 and U17 teams.

These books contain sessions that have been collated from the author's (Rob Gale) playing and coaching experiences with Score UK/The Fulham Academy. Other drills have been adapted from many experienced and talented coaches who Gale has had the pleasure to work with over the years in various other English Youth Academies. All the sessions can be used and/or adapted for ANY age group.

Volume One
Contains 11 chapters showing practices and exercises used at English Premier League Academies to develop and improve technique. Chapters are: Warm-Ups, Passing, Ball Control, Dribbling, Running, Shooting, Attacking Play, Defending, Tackling, Games and Tactics.

Volume Two
Takes the exercises shown in Volume One and progresses them into functional sessions, then into tactical sessions and fi nally into game situations.

One of the best ways to breakdown a defense is to have a numerical advantage. This most commonly happens as a 2 v 1 situation. Once in this position, your players need to be able to take advantage of it quickly and effectively.

2 v 1 Attacking Drills and Exercises will show you how to create practices that will train your players to recognize these situations and select the correct combination of movements and passes to take advantage of them. The book is divided into three sections: Patterns, Exercises to Teach 2 v 1 and Observations. Patterns details how perform the Wall Pass, Double Pass, Take Over, X Pattern, Dummy Patterns and others. It also lists all of the coaching points that are important to perform each pattern correctly. The section on Exercises provides you with specific examples of ways to teach the patterns to your team. They begin as very basic practices and progress to involve larger groups so that the players can relate what they have learned to the larger game. Observations discusses where and when to apply the patterns within the game.

David Goldstein is a soccer coach with an extensive coaching and playing background. As a player he was a standout at Claremont McKenna College. After college he had the unique distinction of being drafted both as a forward and as a goalkeeper in the old NASL and ASL.

Since his playing days he has amassed an extensive coaching resume. He is currently the Director of Coaching Development for a league in Boise Idaho. Prior to that, Goldstein held several coaching positions at the college level as both an assistant and head coach. In addition, he has been involved in the Olympic Development Programs as the Far West Regional Coach for girls and serving as the State Coaching Director for both Ohio North and Idaho.

Training Sessions From Around The World contains sessions from the world's top teams and coaches like Manchester United, Ajax, Liverpool, Juventus, PSV Eindhoven, E.C. Vitoria and Sao Paulo. These, plus sessions from National teams from Holland, Italy, USA and others, make this book a "must have" for any serious soccer coach.

There are over 200 pages accompanied with 480 easy-to-read diagrams. Topics include-Defending With A Flat Back Four, Attacking From The Flanks, Playing With A 4-4-2 Formation, Defending With Three Defenders, Small-Sided Games, Counter-Attacking and many other sessions. Divided into five chapters- Attacking Sessions, Passing and Possession Sessions, Technical Sessions, Defending Sessions and Goalkeeping Sessions, there are over 100 training sessions included. Each training session has detailed explanations and is accompanied with easy-to-read diagrams to make this book the perfect reference for any level of coach.

These excellent books contain training sessions from many of the world's top teams and coaches such as Manchester United, Juventus, Ajax and many national teams.

Includes training sessions and drills from PSV Eindhoven, U.S. Women’s World Cup Team, Ajax F.C., Liverpool F.C., Leeds United, FK Teplice plus many of the MLS Teams and other top teams and coaches from around the world.

Coaching Soccer Tactics' presents a comprehensive, readable analysis of soccer tactics and how to use them effectively.

Its main aim is to provide the reader with a broad in-depth appreciation of the tactical side of the game.

The book covers:
- the best approaches to coaching tatics
- key principles of the game
- how to get the best from your players and what makes a good player
- defensive strategies, this includes; how and when to play zonally, doubling-up, the correct offside line
- attacking strategies, this includes; switching the ball, playing out from the back, passing options and creating space

Phil Wymer has researched the facts and developed the drills over 20 years of coaching in the UK, Australia and the USA. He is a teacher and FA qualified coach who works with professional academy players.

Phil has combined all this and more to produce 'Coaching Soccer Tactics'.

All the drills are indexed so that if you are looking for activities to work on specific aspects of the game such as offense, defense, communication, possession, spacing, balance, conditioning, etc., you can go to the index to help you pick the best activity for your teams' needs.

Expand your coaching knowledge and reinvigorate training sessions with the vast range of drills and exercises in the two part Modern Soccer Coaching compendium series.
 
Wow, what a collection! The Modern Soccer Coaching technical and tactical books covers over 250 pages of drills, articles and sessions used by elite clubs and coaches from around the world. Discover how AC Milan trains individual technique, how Athletico Madrid drills its players in creating space, how Liverpool’s academy players practice playing wide and much, much more.

Are you struggling for inspiration on the training pitch? Would you like to find a way to bring yourself up to date on some of the latest training techniques and methodologies? Modern Soccer Coaching is a two part book series comprising of a treasure trove of drills and exercises used by some of the world’s top teams and elite coaches.

Split into Modern Soccer Coaching Technical and Modern Soccer Coaching Tactical, the books feature an extensive array of drills and exercises that cover all areas of modern coaching. This includes drills and exercises used by Manchester United, Liverpool and AC Milan, along with insights from the game’s most innovative coaches, including Jose Mourinho, Wayne Harrison and Scott Moody.

Now you can discover for yourself how the world’s elite teams train to improve performance in multiple areas. Over 250 pages packed with drills, exercises and insightful articles, this two part compendium series is an opportunity to bring your coaching knowledge up to date and to discover the latest techniques for improving technical and tactical performance.

Technical Practices of the Pros & Tactical Practices of the Pros are taken from material first published in the 2006 and 2007 issues of the WORLD CLASS COACHING magazine.

The WORLD CLASS COACHING magazine is the only publication in the world that publishes the training sessions of the world's top teams and coaches. It is regarded as the authoritative publication of choice for soccer coaches worldwide with thousands of coaches from over 60 countries subscribing to this bi-monthly magazine.

The Tactical book contains sessions that focus on individual skills and technique from English Premier League teams and their Academies like Chelsea and West Ham United F.C.. Also included are sessions from Canadian, Norwegian, Malawi, Bahamian and Welsh National Teams, and top clubs like America F.C. - Brazil, Aston Villa, Everton F.C., Bordeaux - France, VVV-Venlo - Holland, Inter Milan, River Plate, F.C. Porto and Valencia C.F. These, plus sessions from David Platt, Bob Gansler, Barry Gorman, and Frans Hoek, and an article on Coaching and Psychology from Dr. Robert Troutwine.

Tactical Topics include: Playing Out of the Back, Being Compact as a Team, How to Beat the 4-4-2, Attacking Movements, Defending Dead Ball Situations, Functional Training, Integrating the Goalkeeper, Beating a Flat Defense and many other sessions. Every practice is listed by topic and page number in the Table of Contents so that you can quickly go to the one that you need to use with your team.

The Technical book contains practices that focus on individual skills and technique from English Premier League teams and their Academies like Manchester United and Chelsea. Also included are sessions from Canadian and Welsh National Teams, and top clubs like Aston Villa F.C., Glasgow Celtic, Millwall F.C., Inter Milan, River Plate, AS Monaco and Valencia C.F. These, plus sessions from Robe Gale, Frans Hoek, Glen Myernick, and conditioning sessions from Scott Moody with the Center for Athletic Performance make this book a must have for any serious soccer coach.

Technical Topics include: Running with the Ball, Possession and Speed of Play, Flank Play, Reacting to the Next Ball, Change of direction Technique, 1 v 1 Practices, Creating Space and Possession, When to Pass and When to Dribble and many other practices. Every practice is listed by topic and page number in the Table of Contents so that you can quickly go to the one that you need to use with your team.

Each training session has a detailed explanation and is accompanied with easy-to-read diagrams to make this book the perfect reference for any level of coach.

The WORLD CLASS COACHING magazine is the only publication in the world that publishes the training sessions of the world's top teams and coaches. It is regarded as the authoritative publication of choice for soccer coaches worldwide with thousands of coaches from over 60 countries subscribing to this bi-monthly magazine.

In this book are sessions from English Professional League teams and their Academies like Manchester United, Liverpool, Everton and Fulham. Also included are sessions from England National Teams, and top British clubs like Glasgow Rangers, Glasgow Celtic, Crystal Palace, Leeds United, Norwich City, Sheffield United. These, plus sessions from David Platt, Wayne Harrison, Derek Broadley, and conditioning sessions from world renowned Roger Spry make this book a must have for any serious soccer coach.

Topics include, Pressing as a Team, Defending With 3 or 4 Defenders, Crossing and Finishing, Working With a Back Four, Improving Team Shape, Small-Sided Games, Training Overlaps, Improving Speed of Play and many other sessions.

Each training session has detailed explanations and is accompanied with easy-to-read diagrams to make this book the perfect reference for any level of coach.

The WORLD CLASS COACHING magazine is the only publication in the world that publishes the training sessions of the world's top teams and coaches. It is regarded as the authoritative publication of choice for soccer coaches worldwide with thousands of coaches from over 60 countries subscribing to this bi-monthly magazine.

In this book are sessions from Europe?s top teams like Real Madrid, Ajax and A.C. Milan, plus South American teams like Boca Juniors, E.C. Vitoria and others. These, plus sessions from the Canadian National Teams, MLS teams and sessions from Anson Dorrance and Tony DiCicco make this book a must have for any serious soccer coach.

Topics include, Organizing a Flat Back Four, Combinations in the Attacking Third, Passing and Possession, Working With Two Target Players, Goalkeeping, Small-Sided Games, Creating Crossing Opportunities, Defending In and Around the Penalty Area and many other sessions.

Each training session has detailed explanations and is accompanied with easy-to-read diagrams to make this book the perfect reference for any level of coach.

Discover how to use the Three Dimensional building block approach to training so your players develop a deeper understanding of their roles and how to play the way you want.

Now this is comprehensive! Three Dimensional Soccer Training is a book born from analyzing how the world's most popular formations are played and what training systems are needed to play them effectively. Rather than focus on technique or formations independently, this book shows you how to combine elements like building blocks to create complete 'three dimensional training'.

Do you want to make your coaching sessions more specific and focused? Would you like to know how to build sessions together that give your players a deeper understanding of how to combine technique with tactics on game day? Well, Three Dimensional Soccer Training is a book that has all the answers.

Born from its author's passion for studying how formations are played around the world, Three Dimensional Soccer Training explains how to coach players so they gain an enriched technical and tactical understanding of their position.

Instead of coaching technique, formations and roles individually, Three Dimensional Soccer Training explains step-by-step how to progressively train players in all these areas in each coaching session. It tells you what to teach, when and why. The outcome is that your players will develop a three dimensional understanding of how everything fits together. Rather than simply be able to pass smoothly or know where they need to place the ball, they will know which foot to pass to and why.

Whether you want to play the 4-3-3 or 4-4-2, 4-2-3-1, zonal or man marketing, Three Dimensional Soccer Training gives you a complete model for progressively training players to develop a deeper, more rounded view of how technique and tactics fit in your system.

If you enjoyed Euro 2012, you’ll love this! Winning Soccer Tactics provides a tactical analysis of every single game. Discover the tactics behind every team and the playing styles that now dominate international European soccer.

Hot off the press! This special book takes an in-depth look at Euro 2012 and the tactics, styles of play and mindsets of Europe’s national teams and coaches. Winning Soccer Tactics analyses every game to highlight the counter attacking moves that exposed weak defenses, the benefits of a fluid front line and how substance can defeat style. This book analyzes these trends and the many other coaching lessons revealed in the Euro 2012 tournament.

Soccer is constantly evolving. This was for all to see at the Euro 2012 tournament. The upsets and surprising results marked how teams are learning to curb the attacking flair of opposition through defensive, regimented and functional styles of play. Russia, for example, were potential contenders. They won many fans at the start of the tournament for their attacking style and expansive passing However, their lack of defensive organization for the sake of attack led to them being knocked out at the group stage. And they weren’t the only team to struggle against a well organized, regimented team.

Winning Soccer Tactics: A look at the tactics of every Euro 2012 game plus practical methods to teach them analyses the reasons for Russia’s early flight home along with all the other valuable coaching lessons on view at Euro 2012. Every single game is analyzed one by one to explain the tactics and styles of play that enabled teams to progress, and the weakness that led to others dropping out. In addition, every chapter features soccer drills for coaching your team in the playing style and tactics that were victorious in each game.

Whether you watched Euro 2012 avidly, just saw a few games or missed the entire tournament, Winning Soccer Tactics is packed with insights you can use to enrich your coaching knowledge. From its analysis of some of the world’s best players, coaches and teams, you will discover how substance and a regimented defense can curb and defeat superior opposition.

Calling all tactical coaches! The Modern Soccer Tactics series is packed with tactical insights on how the elite teams in the EPL, La Liga and Champions League play that will expand and enrich your coaching knowledge.

Amazing! If you want to develop a better understanding of the tactics and strategies of the world's greatest club sides then look no further. The two book Modern Soccer Tactics series is packed with over 220 pages of insights on how the great club sides, like Barcelona, Manchester United and Arsenal, manage to dominate teams. In addition, these books feature an array of drills and exercise so you can train your team to emulate some of the world’s elite clubs and players.

Europe is the birthplace of soccer and its teams have some of the most skillful players and most advanced tactics in the world. If you've ever wanted to discover how you can emulate these great sides, now is your chance.

Modern Soccer Tactics is a two book series focused on the formations, tactics and mindsets of many of Europe's greatest players and teams, along with practical methods to teach them. This includes how Real Madrid were transformed by Jose Mourino into La Liga Champions, how Arsenal trains its players to recognize and react quicker to game situations and how fullbacks, like Roberto Carlos, have developed into part of a team’s attack.

Utilizing screenshots of actual games and clear explanations, Modern Soccer Tactics provides you with a wealth of insights you can use to improve your coaching knowledge, along with practical exercises you can use to improve the performance of your players on the training pitch. If you want to learn from Europe's greatest players and teams, these books are the perfect addition to your coaching library.

In modern soccer there is a great deal of emphasis on organization and defending as a team. This has made it very difficult to break down the opposition and create goal scoring opportunities through individual efforts. This book focuses on the key principles of passing, receiving and possession which will enable you to break down the opposing team, individually and as a team to create goal scoring opportunities while playing attacking, attractive, free flowing soccer.

Modern Combination Play includes more than 80 drills, exercises and small-sided games to train your players to work together. Each one includes a detailed diagram and a complete description. The descriptions contain the organization, coaching points and progressive exercises for each practice.

The 11 chapters begin with technical topics and gradually progress to group games. The chapters include: Basic Receiving Technique Drills, Myself, a Ball and a Wall, Passing and Awareness, Opening Out and Switching Play, Changing Your First Touch, Passing Combinations, Possessing Under Pressure, Quick Movement and Awareness and Possession Games. Within each chapter there is also a progression that allows the players to move from simple movements without opposition to more complicated combinations that includes the pressure of an opponent.

Including the methods from Modern Combination Play into your training sessions will take your team to the next level.

Training Creative Goalscorers is packed with 103 soccer drills and exercises to improve your player's reactions, attacking instincts and consistency in the box, so they can score more often and win more games.

If you're looking for goal scoring drills, you've come to the right place! This special book focuses on the most important factor in winning games - scoring more goals than the opposition! Training Creative Goalscorers enables you to create a soccer training environment in which your players can improve their shooting, reaction times and reading of the game all at the same time.

It’s no secret, every player loves scoring goals. Whether they're forwards, flankers charging up the wings or goalkeepers running up the pitch for corners, every player wants to be the one to get the ball in the net for their team. The thrill of scoring goals is something every player aspires to attain. But developing the creativity, reaction times and precise placement needed to score consistently can be difficult to achieve on the practice pitch.

Training Creative Goalscorers, by Chelsea Academy Coach, Michael Beale, is a book that’s focused, dead center, on developing the skills players need to score goals consistently. Instead of uninspiring drills that merely place players in long lines around the penalty area, this book is packed with 103 soccer drills that will improve your team's finishing ability.

The drills progress from simple unopposed drills around the box to creating training environments, with multiple stations, types of obstacles to clear and tasks to perform before goals can be scored. Creating this type of training environment will enable you to replicate the randomness and quick response times needed in real game situations. In addition, Training Creative Goalscorers will enable you to make training sessions more invigorating for players and to thrive at doing what they love – scoring goals!

Instead of Jumping from Drill to Drill, Discover How to Coach Your Teams to Progressively Improve Using 76 Training Sessions Taught by One of the Country’s Sharpest College Soccer Coaches.

This book can give you a training schedule for an entire season (rather than from week to week)! The Complete Soccer Coaching Guide - 76 Training Sessions that Develop the Advanced Player contains a comprehensive range of soccer drills and exercises you can use to coach youth and college teams in a progressive manner. This will enable you to increase the challenge and complexity of each training session, and gained improved team performance as a result!

Whatever level you're coaching at, it can be difficult to gauge how to progress soccer drills and exercises in a way that helps your players to improve. As you know, the only way players can improve is through progressively increasing the complexity and difficulty of soccer drills. But how do you know which ones to switch to over the course of a season?

The Complete Soccer Coaching Guide - 76 Training Sessions that Develop the Advanced Player shows you how with a progressive series of soccer drills taught by one of the country's sharpest college coaches. Featuring every training session of Rochester University, during the fall season of 2010, this book provides you with a calendar of progressive soccer drills you can use to challenge your players and help them to reach the next level.

These soccer drills helped Rochester University prepare for their run to the NCAA Elite 8 and a final NSCAA national ranking of 6th. And they can help you too to improve the quality, quantity and timing of soccer training sessions so that your players are physically and mentally prepared for every game of the season.

There are plenty of books packed with soccer drills, but very few give you the structured and progressive approach to training you will gain from The Complete Soccer Coaching Guide - 76 Training Sessions that Develop the Advanced Player

Discover How to Coach, Counter and Use the Offside Rule to Your Advantage from a World Class Coaching Expert

This eBook tells you everything you need to know about coaching the offside rule, both defensively and in attack. You will discover how to use it to immediately to end threats when other teams try to use it to their benefit and how to win more goal scoring opportunities of your own

As many frustrated soccer managers will tell you, the offside rule is arguably the most controversial and contentious rules in the game. Rule number 11 causes more arguments, unfavorable decisions and costly score lines than any other rule.

Consequently, the world’s leading soccer coaches always train their teams how to use the offside rule to their advantage. It can be used both to immediately end attacking threats through smart defensive strategies and to teach wily attackers how to outwit the offside trap and find themselves in goal scoring positions.

Drawing on his coaching experience at clubs including Manchester United, Everton and the Welsh national side, David Williams shares his expert insight and explains exactly how coaches can counter the offside rule and how to use it to outwit defenses.

The eBook is ideal for coaches of recreational teams wishing to improve their understanding of the offside rule right through to coaches at a professional level that want to improve their tactical awareness and soccer coaching sessions.

Improve your players’ fitness and technical ability at the same time with this compilation of highly effective conditioning drills performed with a ball

Now this is comprehensive! Soccer Conditioning with a Ball is a special book overloaded with drills that will boost your players’ fitness while also improving their ball control, first touch, defensive footwork and every other core skill your team needs for success. No more will players waste time standing in lines or running aimlessly around cones, because these conditioning drills are all performed with a ball at your players’ feet.

Deciding whether to work on fitness or technique is a never ending dilemma. Should you focus on improving ball control, dribbling and other core skills? Or is improving your players’ technical ability a waste of time if they don’t have enough gas in the tank to last a full game? Well, with the drills in this book you need never have to make that choice again.

Soccer Conditioning with a Ball is a compilation of the best conditioning drills handpicked from WORLD CLASS COACHING’s vast library. This special book is packed with over 20 exercises which will improve technique and fitness at the same time, covering every core skill and position. This includes dynamic first touch drills with sprint dribbling; high intensity conditioning circuits; 1v1 small sided anaerobic exercises; pattern plays that replicate real game scenarios and much more.

In addition, Soccer Conditioning with a Ball also features ‘soccer science’ articles on the latest sports science research on modern conditioning coaching techniques. So along with a wide ranging compilation of conditioning drills, you can also expand your own knowledge with insights into plyometric and high intensity interval training and how it can be used to get bigger benefits from every coaching session.

Discover the revolutionary new approach to conditioning training using a ball. This set of books provides a comprehensive guide to improve your players’ fitness and their  technique at the same time.

Finally, it's here! Total Soccer Conditioning: A Ball-Orientated Approach is a two volume comprehensive guide (over 300 pages) to training your players to be fitter, stronger and more technically adept. From explaining the physiology of soccer through to identifying the components of fitness through to extensive training exercises, this special book set is exhaustive in its detail on how to get the maximum benefit from every session.

Soccer is one of the most physically demanding games around. Players will cover 10-12km per game, 2km of which at maximum speed. They also have to perform a variety of locomotive actions, such as back peddling, lateral shuffles, curved runs, slides and jumps. With all these sudden movements and quick changes in pace, the endurance, explosive power, speed and agility of your players can be the deciding factor in winning the game.

Conditioning is a vital part of training, no question. But too often you have to make the choice between working on fitness or technique. Well, now you don't have to because Total Soccer Conditioning: A Ball Orientated Approach provides you with a comprehensive coaching methodology for integrating physical conditioning with technical and tactical elements.

The two volumes with over 300 jam packed pages include a wide variety of ball orientated exercises, training guides and a guide to strength training so you can improve your players’ fitness and technical ability in the same session. Whether you coach amateur sides or elite teams, Total Soccer Conditioning: A Ball Orientated Approach will improve your understanding of soccer physiology and enable you to run fitness sessions that are more productive and enjoyable for players with a ball at their feet.

One of the most important components of a training session is the 'small-sided game'. Whether it's a local youth team, college team or a top professional team, they all use small-sided games to help their players make the transition from drills and exercises to real game situations. It's this transition that translates skills and techniques from practice into your game on the weekend.

Coaching Soccer through Small-Sided Games contains 101 games that incorporate a wide range of topics including: Passing and Possession, Shooting, Crossing and Finishing, Defending, Half Field Games and Full Field Games. Small-sided games are a great way to focus on these topics in a game-like situation. Another benefit of incorporating small-sided games into your training sessions is that players enjoy them.

Many of the small-sided games in this book are taken from the last 10 years of the WORLD CLASS COACHING magazine and are from the training sessions of some of the world's top teams and coaches including: Manchester United, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Juventus, Liverpool, U.S Women's World Cup Team, and from world-renowned coaches like Tony DiCicco and others make this book a must have for any serious soccer coach.

Discover how to coach small sided games that will improve your players' creativity, reaction times and their ability to play under pressure in real game situations.

It's true, small sided games are simply the closest you can get in training to the randomness and pressure your players will face in real game situations - not running around cones! This special eBook Developing Creativity Through Small Sided Games is your comprehensive coaching guide to equipping your players with the technique and mental agility they will need to succeed and to bridge the gap between soccer drills and real games

As you know, whether it's playing at recreational, college or professional level, when players arrive for soccer practice all they want to do is play real games, rather than endless soccer drills. It's for the simple reason that playing real games is more enjoyable, challenging and motivating than waiting in line to perform set moves that focus on one isolated technique.

Although soccer drills are an important part of a player’s development, they cannot train players in how to play under pressure or what to do in the wide array of situations that can occur in real games. In addition, soccer drills do not offer players the opportunity to express the creativity and freedom they crave.

These are some of the reasons why small sided games are such a valuable part of soccer coaching. They can be used to improve mental agility, the ability to play under pressure and to transition players from the repetitive nature of soccer drills to the randomness of a real game.

Developing Creativity Through Small Sided Games is your comprehensive guide to coaching small sided games. This special book, available in both print and digital download format, shows you how to setup a wide variety of small sided games on the training field. Instead of the conventional 6 v 6 games played on half a pitch, this book details over 40 different ways of playing small sided games that will challenge and develop your players and bridge the gap between soccer drills and real games.

Your Complete Coaching Guide to Playing like The Dutch Has Arrived! Improve your players' technique, passing and understanding of how to perform in the Dutch vision of how soccer should be played.

Finally, the complete Dutch drills manual is here! Dutch Drills for Total Team Training is packed with soccer drills and exercises that will train your team to pass, move and utilize the Dutch 4-3-3 to dominate opposition teams. If you've ever wanted to replicate what the Dutch players do on the practice pitch, now you can!

The Dutch are respected throughout the world for their exceptional technical and tactical abilities. Few teams pass as smoothly or intricately as the Dutch, while their aggressive 4-3-3 formation can often give them the tactical edge against teams unprepared for their free flowing, aggressive style of play.

The quality of Dutch players comes from their uniform training methods and technical skills that are honed from a young age. In fact, the KNVB Dutch National Federation recommends that teams, from youth to pro, adhere to the coveted Dutch 4-3-3 formation.

This book provides a complete coaching guide on how to train players in the Dutch model. Drawing on his own firsthand experience of coaching with FC Ajax and Vitesse Arnhem in Holland and passion for the Dutch style of play, author Robert Podeyn has put together an in-depth analysis of how to develop the beautiful Dutch game on the training pitch. This includes dynamic warm-up drills, Dutch fitness exercises and specific drills focused on particular positions which will make your players more effective in playing Holland's feared 4-3-3.

Part coaching manual and part love letter to the Dutch vision of soccer, you need never read another book on the philosophy and coaching practices of Dutch soccer again!

Wow, now this is comprehensive! Weighing in at nearly 200 pages, Dutch 'Total Football' provides an in-depth guide to the history, philosophy and soccer drills that shape the Dutch vision of how soccer should be played. You will find a mountain of insights and coaching guidance you can use to coach your players in Holland’s aggressive, free flowing ‘Total Football’ style of soccer.

The Dutch are known throughout the world for their amazing technique, tactical awareness, passing and chemistry, where the players seem to have a mental bond and know exactly where to place the ball for one another. These qualities, evident in Dutch teams for decades, are no accident. The Dutch approach to soccer comes from a uniform philosophy, culture and training methodology that is utilized at a youth level through to seniors all over the country.

Part coaching manual part love letter to Dutch soccer, Dutch 'Total Football' provides a comprehensive analysis of all the elements that make Dutch soccer so special. This includes an in-depth look at Dutch culture, how soccer was transformed from its amateurish 1960s roots and a look at the 'Clockwork Orange' teams of the 1970s.

In addition, Dutch 'Total Football' is packed with over 120 pages of Dutch soccer drills, with detailed diagrams and clear explanations on how to gain the maximum benefit from every exercise. Whether you coach developing youth teams or players at the highest level, the background information on the Dutch ‘Total Football’ philosophy and training exercises make this book your ideal guide to learning from some of the most technically gifted players in the world today.

Discover How to Play the Dutch 4-3-3 and Utilize the Coveted Dutch 'Master Plan' to Improve the Technique, Personality, Speed and Insight of Your Players.

Wow, now this is comprehensive! This fascinating book covers in exhaustive detail everything you need to know about the Dutch soccer vision. Inside its pages you will discover how to adopt the same plan followed by every Dutch club to develop some of the world's most technically gifted and talented players. Coaching the Dutch 4-3-3 shows you how to train your team to use the famous free flowing Dutch formation and how to literally pass the ball into the opposition's net.

The Dutch are renowned worldwide for the quality of their youth development programs. In fact, there are more home grown Dutch players playing abroad professionally than from any other country (including Brazil). This is even more astounding when you consider that Holland is about half the size of Arizona and has a youth population playing base that is 10% the size of that in the US. Put simply, when it comes to developing young players there is no country better to learn from than the Dutch.

Coaching the Dutch 4-3-3 provides a comprehensive guide to coaching players in the Dutch vision. This includes an in-depth analysis of the roles and responsibilities of players in every position when playing the 4-3-3 formation in the Dutch style, along with training drills and exercises used by Dutch coaches to improve the the technique, personality, speed and insight of their players.

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This book has the following features:

* 200 Articles from the Goalkeeping Newsletter Archives
* Over 245 Pages
* Table of Contents
* Fully Indexed

This book is indexed so that if you are looking for activities to work on specific aspects of the goalkeeping such as distribution, positioning, break-aways, diving, etc., you can go to the index to help you pick the best activity for your needs.

Competition is the single best tool a coach can use to drive individual improvement. Drills and exercises that focus on specific technical aspects are important but when the pressure of an opponent is added, performance is pushed to new heights. The natural opponent for a goalkeeper is a striker but an equally competitive situation can be created by having two goalkeepers compete against one-another.

Goalie Wars! shows you how to maximize the intensity and productivity of training session for the most specialized position in soccer. Training goalkeepers in pairs is one of the most economical and motivational methods you can use to bring out the best in your keepers.

This book examines the possibilities of intensive pairs training for goalkeepers. The chapters include: Game-Day Warm-Up, Fitness and Agility, Handling and Distribution, Diving,? Reactions, and Shot-Stopping. Each of these topics is presented in a pairs format where the goalkeepers can train and compete against each other. Through the use of progressions and variations, the coach can continually challenge the goalkeepers and keep the training session lively. The goal is to maximize the intensity and productivity in the team training environment for this very specialized position.

Tony Englund is the Director of Coaching and Player Development at Burnsville Fire Soccer Club in Minneapolis. He has coached goalkeepers for more than twenty years, and has enjoyed watching many of his former players go on to play the game at the highest levels. His club teams have consistently earned state and regional recognition. Englund holds more than a dozen NSCAA diplomas, including the Director of Coaching, Premier and Goalkeeping Level III awards. He also serves as an Associate Staff Coach for the NSCAA.

Integrating your goalkeeper into soccer team training sessions will improve team chemistry, strengthen the cohesion between the goalkeeper and outfield and train your defense to concede fewer goals.

Finally, it’s here! Your comprehensive guide on how to manage soccer team training sessions so you can fully integrate your goalkeeper and solve the ‘goalkeeper dilemma’. No longer will they be left to train on their own or with a specialist coach because Team Training the Goalkeeper details more than 40 different team training exercises you can use to include the goalkeeper so you can build a stronger team strategy and a tighter defense.

In too many soccer training sessions goalkeepers are marginalized. Whether it’s due to lack of manpower, resources or equipment, goalkeepers are often left in their own corner of the pitch to warm-up and train on their own or with a specialist coach. Whilst the goalkeeper has a unique skill set, leaving them to train separately can isolate them from other players and there might be gaps in your team’s organization that will go unnoticed until they are revealed in real games.

There are many benefits to integrating goalkeepers into team soccer training: It can improve team chemistry, improve the link up play between the goalkeeper and outfield players and vastly improve the performance of the goalkeeper themselves.

Drawing on over 20 years of experience coaching soccer teams at every level of the game in the US, John Murphy has written this special book Team Training the Goalkeeper which analyses and explains how to integrate the goalkeeper into team training sessions. Through over 40 soccer drills, exercises and small sided games, Murphy shows you exactly how to run progressive team training that will get your goalkeeper training with the team throughout, from the initial warm-up right through to game time.

Goalkeepers need to be as close to perfect as possible 100% of the time. This book shows you how to coach goalkeepers to perform at their very best using soccer drills taught by leading specialist goalkeeper coaches.

Your solution to coaching the ‘goalkeeper dilemma’ is here! Written by a coach with extensive goalkeeper coaching experience, Coaching the Complete Goalkeeper shows you how to fulfill the unique demands of coaching the most specialized player on the team. Through innovative drills and exercises, this book will help to improve the performance of your goalkeeper, which in turn means fewer goals conceded and more victories.

Strikers can afford to miss a few shots or lose concentration for a few seconds and still have a good game. Goalkeepers, on the other hand, cannot. They have to be performing at the highest possible level 100% of the time. Any mistakes or drops in focus can mean a goal is conceded, deciding the difference between victory or defeat in the process.

Goalkeepers are well aware of their unique responsibilities on the team. They crave to be as close to perfect as they can possibly be. But without the right soccer drills and exercises designed specifically for goalkeepers, they cannot reach the level of performance both they and the team need to succeed.

Coaching the Complete Goalkeeper is a comprehensive guide to coaching this most specialized position. Utilizing soccer drills and exercises taught in Holland, home of some of the world’s greatest goalkeepers, this book covers everything from warm-up to technical skills development to improving mental toughness. Through detailed explanations, photos and a complete list of coaching points, this book enables you to coach goalkeepers to reach their highest level of performance, to work more cohesively with the team and to concede fewer goals.

Gain inside access to every goalkeeper training session, practice and drill over an entire MLS season in this special book that tracks New England Revolution's progress from underdogs to the MLS Cup Final.

Now this is comprehensive! Not just a few select soccer drills but an entire season's worth! Part diary, part travel log and 100% goalkeeper coaching resource, Full Season Goalkeeper Training Program charts the experiences and demands of coaching a goalkeeper throughout an entire season, from preseason friendlies right until a cup final appearance at its finale.

The game has never been more demanding for goalkeepers. They have to develop better technique, quicker reactions, increased focus and mental toughness to cope with the pressure of being expected to perform consistently every game. Nobody knows this better than goalkeepers playing an entire season in the professional leagues.

Full Season Goalkeeper Training Program gives you an inside view of what it takes to coach a goalkeeper throughout an entire MLS season. Written by New England Revolution’s goalkeeping and assistant coach John Murphy, this book details every training sessions, practice and drill throughout their 2002 season. This was a year in which the team went from underdogs to a seven game unbeaten streak which propelled them to becoming East Conference Champions and MLS Cup Finalists.

Full Season Goalkeeper Training Program

It was also a year in which their goalkeeper, Adin Brown, grew into becoming one of the league's most effective shot stoppers. This improvement came a result of the vast array of goalkeeping drills and training exercises practiced by Murphy and Brown on the training pitch; the full details of which you can discover in Full Season Goalkeeper Training Program.

Whether you're a New England Revolution fan or want to improve your goalkeeper coaching, this special book provides with a complete guide to training goalkeepers individually and as a part of the team. Starting from preseason tours of Brazil and Portugal through to charting the entire nine month MLS season, this is a must for goalkeepers and coaches wishing to see what it takes to coach a goalkeeper throughout an entire season.

From Street Soccer to Professional Soccer

Brazilian's are well known for developing their incredible creativity and flair through countless hours of street soccer games organized by the players themselves and far away from the structure and influence of teams, leagues and coaches.

Only after this rich street soccer experience will the child learn the techniques and tactics from professional clubs. They will also learn discipline in training and practicing the fundamentals of their position. This sequence beginning with a fun and creative atmosphere and later moving to a structured and professional environment is critical in the emergence of Brazilian soccer stars.

The goal of the Brazilian Soccer Academy - Combo is to demonstrate how the Brazilian training methods can create great results by following an educational curriculum including specific and adapted sessions focusing on the Competitive phase of development. This curriculum will show, in detail, how the top Brazilian Youth Academies develop the U13 to U18 age group training with a strong influence from Futsal (5v5), educational small-sided games and 11 v 11 game conditions focusing on the 4-4-2 formation with a diamond midfield as well as defensive and offensive variations.

Brazilian Soccer Academy - Combo, which includes Volume I and II, is organized so that you can see what a Brazilian team does for each of their weekly training sessions. This insight allows you to not only see which drills and exercises are used but how they are placed within an overall cycle of training. More than 100 easy-to-read diagrams illustrate each session along with detailed explanations of the set-up, player movements and important coaching points.

Author, Eduardo Andriatti Paulo has coached professional youth clubs in Brazil including Ituano FC and Inter Club Korea. Paulo has also coached and lectured on the Brazilian Methodology in Guatemala, Canada, Bermuda, Nigeria and many other countries. He is currently the Educational Director of Futebol Brazil System and coach with the Westfield Soccer Association and the Summit Soccer Association in New Jersey.

Brazilians learn the game by playing the game. In many countries training sessions are focused around drills and exercises that isolate techniques and tactics. Brazilian coaches spend most of their time creating playing environments with small-sided games that put an emphasis on the specific areas of the game but also train the player 'globally'. Global Training is the idea that once individual techniques are taught, the players need to apply those techniques in realistic game situations that will train players technically, tactically, physically and mentally. Jos? Mourinho and Gus Hiddink are professional coaches that use this type of training at the highest level with great success. Brazilian players grow up with small-sided games as part of their individual development and team training sessions.

Incorporating these games into your training sessions will help you breakdown the game into realistic situations while focusing your players on competing and adding an element of fun to the practice that will increase their motivation to train and learn.

Author, Eduardo Andriatti Paulo, has coached professional youth clubs in Brazil including Ituano FC and Inter Club Korea. Paulo has also coached and lectured on the Brazilian Methodology in Guatemala, Canada, Bermuda, and many other countries. He is currently the Educational Director of BFUT Instituto Brasileiro de Futebol and coach with the Westfield Soccer Association and the Summit Soccer Association in New Jersey.

Brazilian Soccer Coaching Volume I
This book contains actual training sessions conducted every week with the U16 Academy Team of the Brazilian club, EC Vitoria. Three training sessions from each week cover topics that include: Training the Playmaker, Defending Set Plays, Building from the Back, Brazilian Circuit Training, Ball Possession and Offensive Transition just to name a few. Each session is designed to train the chosen topic with defenders, midfielders or forwards so that the specific demands of each position are addressed. All of the sessions are progressive and show how the team moved from warm-up through the session and ending with a game related activity or small-sided game.

More than 200 easy-to-read diagrams illustrate the sessions along with detailed explanations of the setup, player movements and important coaching points. This combination will enable you to use these practices with your team in a clear and effective way.

Coach Vinicius Dos Santos has coached at the professional level in his native country with EC Vitoria, EC Bahia and Clube Pequeninos do Jockey. He is now based in the USA as a coach with the Sereno Soccer Club in Arizona. He is also the author of The Brazilian Box Midfield.

Brazilian Soccer Coaching Volume 2
This book contains actual training sessions conducted every week with the U18 Academy Team of the Brazilian club, Clube Atl?tico Mineiro. Two training sessions from each week cover topics that include: 1 v 1 Situations, Defensive Principles, Breaking the Defense Through the Middle, Creating Passing Lanes, Finishing, Attacking Down the Flanks and Offensive and Defensive Support by Midfielders just to name a few. Every session is progressive and shows how the team moved from warm-up through the session and ending with a game related activity or small-sided game.

More than 100 easy-to-read diagrams illustrate the sessions along with detailed explanations of the setup, player movements and important coaching points. This combination will enable you to use these practices with your team in a clear and effective way.

Coach Mauricio Marques coaches at the professional level in his native country with Clube Atletico Mineiro. Marques presented three sessions at the 2008 WORLD CLASS COACHING International Coaching Seminar in Kansas City. 

Brazil's system of play is famous for its version of the 4-4-2, which utilizes the 'Box Midfield'. Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazil's current coach, won the 1994 World Cup in the USA with a 'Box Midfield'. Parreira's 2006 Brazil team also utilizes the same system, which he refers to as the 'Magic Square'.

Other teams that have used the "Box Midfield" are: Brazil National Team 1982, Brazil National Team 1994, Sao Paulo FC 1992/1993, SE Palmeiras 1996, Cruzeiro EC 2003, Santos FC 2002 & 2004. Most recently Wanderley Luxemburgo comes home from Real Madrid to win the Paulista League 2006 with a "Box "Midfield".

Although mostly used as part of a 4-4-2 formation, the Brazilian teams often use the 'Box Midfield' when having three or five midfield players. This flexibility is one of its strengths and makes it difficult for the opposition to handle.

No one has ever written a book on the 'Box Midfield' system used by many Brazilian teams. Well now there is one. That's right, WORLD CLASS COACHING, has published, The Brazilan Box Midfield, a clear and practical book on how to apply the Brazilian Box system. This book will be helpful for any coach, from elite professional teams to youth club teams, to better understand the principles of Brazilian soccer and its systems of play.

Full Season Training Program U14 contains actual training sessions conducted daily with a competitive under 14 team. These training sessions were collected and put into book form so that you can follow the progression of the practices over the course of an entire season. They are complete training sessions (warm up, technical, tactical and physical work) which will help coaches run better organized sessions and also will help them structure their sessions over the course over an entire season.

More than 250 easy to ready diagrams illustrate the practices along with clear explanations of the important coaching points. This combination will enable you to use these practices with your team in a clear and effective way.

This program was conducted by Wayne Harrison of Soccer Awareness. Harrison has a wealth of knowledge at the highest levels of the game both as a player and coach. A former Academy Director at Blackpool F.C. in the English 2nd Division, he is now a "best-selling" author and presents at coaching symposiums worldwide including at the NSCAA Convention. Harrison holds the prestigious UEFA 'A' License as well as a bachelors degree in applied physiology and sports psychology.

Full Season Training Program - Sheffield United F.C. Academy Team contains actual training sessions conducted every week with the U14 Academy Team of the English Premier League club, Sheffield United. These training sessions were collected and put into book form so that you can follow the progression of the practices over the course of an entire season. They are complete training sessions (warm-up, technical, tactical and physical work) which will help coaches run better organized sessions and also will help them structure their sessions over the course over an entire season.

Included are sessions on: Creating Space, Switching the Play, Quick Finishing, Developing Competitive Play, Decision Making, Improving Collective Defending, Strikers Runs, Player Movement and more.

More than 100 easy-to-read diagrams illustrate the practices along with detailed explanations of the important coaching points. This combination will enable you to use these practices with your team in a clear and effective way.

This program was conducted by Darren Vine. Vine has an extensive background as both a player and a coach. He first joined Sheffield United as a coach in July 1996 after being a player at the club for the previous three years. Vine holds a UEFA ?B? License as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education and is a qualified teacher.

In this book, the nation's winningest high school coach, Terry Michler, shares the secrets, methods and tactics he uses to make the Christian Brothers College in St. Louis, one of the most successful high school programs in the country.

Inside you'll find a full season of the actual sessions that Michler used with his team. The practice sessions revolve around decision-making, repetition, 4 v 4 small-sided games, pattern play and attacking schemes that will allow for a fast-paced, free flowing style of play. Michler also shares his insight on how he put the training schedule together and notes from each of the games they played. This information will give the reader a comprehensive look at how Michler developed a high school powerhouse over the course of the year.

Each session includes many exercises and small-sided games that you can incorporate into your training session, which will help develop your players into an organized disciplined team.

Terry Michler played in the North American Soccer League for the Kansas City Spurs who won the league title in 1969. During his time as coach of Christian Brothers College, he has compiled a record of 721-178-88. His teams have won 22 District Championships, 15 Final Four appearances, 11 State Final appearances and 5 State Championships. 266 of his players have gone on to play college soccer and 32 have played at the professional level.

Full Season Training Program - U12 8 v 8 contains actual training sessions conducted daily with a competitive under 12 team that plays in the 8 v 8 format. These training sessions were collected and put into book form so that you can follow the progression of the practices over the course of an entire season. They are complete training sessions (warm-up, technical, tactical and physical work) which will help coaches run better organized sessions and also will help them structure their sessions over the course over an entire season.

More than 250 easy to ready diagrams illustrate the practices along with clear explanations of the important coaching points. This combination will enable you to use these practices with your team in a clear and effective way.

This program was conducted by Wayne Harrison of Soccer Awareness. Harrison has a wealth of knowledge at the highest levels of the game both as a player and coach. A former Academy Director at Blackpool F.C. in the English 2nd Division, he is now a "best-selling" author and presents at coaching symposiums worldwide including at the NSCAA Convention. Harrison holds the prestigious UEFA 'A' License as well as a bachelors degree in applied physiology and sports psychology.

This one-of-a-kind book shows every training session, practice and drill of the Penn State Soccer Team from their 2001 season when they reached the NCAA Tournament round of 16. The book starts with the usual two-a-day pre-season sessions, continues with the regular season training and concludes with training sessions from the post-season. Inside you will find observations of over 80 training sessions accompanied with over 150 easy-to-read diagrams of every drill and exercise.

This is a great opportunity to learn from one of the country's most respected coaches. Barry Gorman is the 2002 President of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). Gorman, a member of the NCAA Division I Soccer Championship Committee and chair of the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Region, is a licensed "A" coach with the United States Soccer Federation and the Irish Football Association. He also is a national staff coach for the NSCAA Coaching Academy. The president of the Pennsylvania Soccer Coaches Association from 1980-84, Gorman was inducted into the Pennsylvania Coaches Hall of Fame in 1999.

Gorman has been the Penn State Men's Soccer Coach since 1988. During that time they have appeared in nine NCAA tournaments, reaching the quarter-finals in 1999, a year where they also enjoyed four weeks at the top of the national rankings. His record with the Nittany Lions is 191-95-20

Over the years, Gorman has visited many countries to study and learn from the world's best soccer clubs and coaches. He has brought concepts and strategies from Holland, France, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland, Germany, England and Ireland, which adds an international flare to the Penn State soccer program.

Coaching championship teams is a challenging and sometimes arduous task. I have known, worked with, and competed against Barry for many years, and his knowledge of the game is unsurpassed. Coach Gorman is not only a great coach, but also a gifted teacher of the game and how to coach it.

This book is a must for any serious soccer library. From start to finish you will find valuable information on how a season unfolds and how as a coach we can respond. Barry brings all of his experience and knowledge and has done all a favor by sharing it with all of us in this book!

Schellas Hyndman
Head Coach, SMU Soccer