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6v3 Transition Game and Aerobic Power

By Alex Trukan This practice is aimed at developing players’ aerobic power which is responsible for recovery speed in between high intensity actions. Players with more powerful aerobic system will be able to make more sprints and bursts with their fatigue building up slower. This game also focuses on possession to play away from pressure

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Pre-Season Conditioning - Part One

WORLD CLASS COACHING Pre-Season Conditioning By Alex Trukan TABLE OF CONTENTS Part One INTRODUCTION 8v8 AND 11V11 5V5 AND 7V7 1V1 DUELS RECOVERY RUNS Part Two 1V1'S FOR POWER 3V3+2 TURNING GAME 2V2 LEAGUE 1V1'S FOR SPEED Introduction With the new season approaching soon, most of the teams are now about to start their pre-season. Players

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Pre-Season Conditioning - Part Two

WORLD CLASS COACHING Pre-Season Conditioning By Alex Trukan TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Two 1V1'S FOR POWER 3V3+2 TURNING GAME 2V2 LEAGUE 1V1'S FOR SPEED 1v1’s to Develop Power to Accelerate Week: 5 This practice is focused on improving maximal explosiveness of the action. It will help players to gain advantage over opposition in running duels and

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Brazilian Attacking Flexibility

By Alex Trukan Brazil has been always known for its creative and unpredictable attacking play. The type of the players in the team naturally fit into more flexible tactics with less structure and patterns. This is due to flair and freedom Brazilian players possess. Attacking flexibility with this type of players is harder to defend

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Central Midfielders’ Runs Behind the Back Line

By Alex Trukan Typical penetration in behind the opposition’s back line involves a striker or a winger running off defenders’ shoulder to a well-timed pass. This approach, however is relatively easy to defend against as striker remains within defender’s vision and his starting position is predictable. Much more complex to defend against are forward runs

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Screening Forward Passes

By Alex Trukan Forward passes breaking the lines can be very dangerous and hard to defend against. Many modern teams try to break out from the back line by passing accurately on the ground, usually directly into the striker or winger. When trying to defend this type of attacking strategy, compactness, organisation, screening and marking

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Quick Finishing with Duels

By Alex Trukan The following practice is aimed at improving players’ repetitive short sprinting power. This conditioning element is responsible for maintaining the quantity of high intensity actions throughout the whole game. Therefore, players will be able to make sprints and bursts even towards the end of the match without loss in its’ quality. The

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Building from the Back with Two Defensive Midfielders

By Alex Trukan With many teams choosing to build up from the back through the thirds, as well as playing with a midfield three, one of the important things to consider becomes the role of central midfielders. One of the options to choose from is to play with two defensive midfielders operating in front of

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Movements to Get Full Backs the Ball

By Alex Trukan There are many types of movements off the ball that full backs try – overlaps, underlaps, third man runs. In many situations, however, these movements don’t lead to full backs getting on the ball. Rather than that, these are often used to create space for other players and unbalance the opposition defensive

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Dribble Through 3 v 3

By Alex Trukan This practice is aimed at developing players’ ability to produce high intensity actions with possibly shortest recovery time in between them. This happens through improving refuelling time of ATP (energy) after anaerobic actions such as sprints, accelerations or quick bursts over short and medium distances. Therefore, if the energy will be available

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Attacking Spaces Around the Defensive Midfielder

By Alex Trukan Defensive midfielder’s position has been a response to available half spaces between units. Many team used to play with flat lines (eg. 4-4-2) what created gaps easy to exploit by the opposition. Defensive midfielder’s role was to cover these spaces, screen through balls and mark any opposition players within these areas. There

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3 v 3 + 2 End to End

By Alex Trukan This practice significantly improves players’ aerobic power system which is responsible for recovery between high intensity actions and serves as a basis for all other physical components’ development. In this practice, this is achieved using extensive interval training which challenges and improves players’ recovery time between high intensity actions (quicker recovery). The

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Benefits of Passing Backwards

By Alex Trukan Passing backwards is generally considered by many fans as boring and rather pointless. Although, going backwards is probably more common for possession tiki-taka type of tactics, it is still considered as undesirable, with the highest priority to go forwards whenever possible. Completely agreed, however, regardless of the team’s style of play, a

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