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      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        September 2011

        Italian Academy Training Sessions Book for U15-19

        A Complete Coaching Program

        by Mirko Mazzantini / Simone Bombardieri

        Soccer Italian Style coaches Mirko Mazzantini (AFC Fiorentina) and Simone Bombardieri (Empoli FC) are both professional football coaches and in this book provide a full soccer training program from their top Italian Serie ‘A’ academies.   This book contains 12 complete soccer training sessions detailing over 80 practices and progressions as used in the academies of the Serie ‘A’. Each session focuses on technical or tactical elements of training and are structured “from simple practices to more complex game situations”. The sessions outline a complete program which provides a high level of training. The 12 sessions (over 80 practices) cover the following attributes:   Technical training; warm-ups with a ball, ball control, attacking and defending from 1 v 1 – tactical game situations, passing and receiving, Explosive Power, coordination, agility and speed training, football specific conditioning with and without the ball and more. Tactical training; small sided games, phase of plays, functions, pattern play unopposed and opposed, psycho-kinetics training to improve player awareness and quick play, possession play, defensive positioning, counter-attacking, quick transition play, crossing and finishing, build-up play from the back and more. Most of the practices cleverly structured for “global training” which means working on more than one attribute at the same time. This is valid for all players, with drills and exercises for specific roles (Attackers, midfielders and defenders). There are also numerous variations for many of the practices, meaning that they can be repeated again and again providing great practices for any coach to make hours and hours of top academy level training sessions.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        February 2012

        FC Barcelona: A Tactical Analysis - Attacking Book

        Attacking

        by Athanasios Terzis

        A Team from Another Planet! A Tactical Blue-Print of Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona Team This book is an exclusive and groundbreaking study of Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona team. This information and analysis of one of the most successful club sides in history has been in high demand and it is finally here! The attacking play of Barcelona is admired by every coach, player and fan in the world. Each player movement and passing combination is broken down in detail for every coach to apply these tactics to their own team. Here is the chance to learn to play the ‘Bara way.’ We now have a full analysis of Barcelona’s tactics which have been so important to their success. The book shows Barca’s 4-3-3 system of play, each player’s responsibilities, positioning and movement within every possible phase of play. Terzis Athanasios is a Tactical Professor of Football and has compiled an extensive assessment of Barcelona’s attacking play after over 1000 hours of studying all the games from the 2010-11 season. Guardiola’s team has won 3 La Liga championships, 2 UEFA Champions Leagues, 4 Spanish Cups, 2 Super Cups, and 2 FIFA World Club World Cups. The book starts with the characteristics of the players and the philosophy of Barcelona and builds into a comprehensive overview of the offensive tactics employed with clear diagrams and detailed descriptions. This gives football coaches an unbelievable chance to learn how Barcelona play and employ their tactics to maintain possession, create chances and score goals. Barcelona is by far the best attacking team of the modern era and now you can see how and why this is the case.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        September 2011

        Italian Academy Training Sessions Book for U11-14

        A Complete Coaching Program

        by Mirko Mazzantini / Simone Bombardieri

        Soccer Italian Style coaches Mirko Mazzantini (AFC Fiorentina) and Simone Bombardieri (Empoli FC) are both professional football coaches and in this book provide a full soccer training program from their top Italian Serie ‘A’ academies. This book contains 12 complete soccer training sessions detailing over 80 practices and progressions as used in the academies of the Serie ‘A’. Each session focuses on technical or tactical elements of training and are structured “from simple practices to more complex game situations”. This outlines a complete program of training across the 12 sessions.   The 12 sessions (over 80 practices) cover the following attributes: Technical training; passing and receiving, quick combination play, possession, ball control and dribbling, 1 v 1’s, feints and moves to beat, crossing, finishing, shooting and heading, football specific conditioning with and without the ball, coordination, acceleration, speed, and agility training. Tactical training; game situations, tactical small sided games, phase of plays, creating space and improving game intelligence, possession play, attacking combinations, Psycho-Kinetics (Think and Act Quickly), quick transitional play, defensive positioning, set plays, build-up play from the back and more.   Most of the practices cleverly structured for “global training” which means working on more than one attribute at the same time. This is valid for all players, with drills and exercises for specific roles (Attackers, midfielders and defenders).   There are also numerous variations for many of the practices, meaning that the 12 sessions can be repeated again and again providing great practices for any coach to produce academy level training sessions.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        February 2012

        FC Barcelona: A Tactical Analysis - Defending Book

        Defending

        by Athanasios Terzis

        A Team from Another Planet! A Tactical Blue-Print of Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona Team   This book is an exclusive and groundbreaking study of Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona team. This information and analysis of one of the most successful club sides in history has been in high demand and it is finally here! The defensive part of Barcelona’s game does not get enough attention, but is integral to their philosophy and all their superior style of play. The main elements of their tactics include pressure high up the pitch, winning the ball back quickly, maintaining a numerical advantage around the ball zone and pushing their opponents wide to limit their space.   We can now see a full analysis of Barcelona’s defensive tactics which have been so important to their success. The book shows Barca’s 4-3-3 system of play, each player’s responsibilities, positioning and movement within every possible phase of play. Terzis Athanasios is a Tactical Professor of Football and has compiled an extensive assessment of Barcelona’s attacking play after over 1000 hours of studying all the games from the 2010-11 season. Guardiola’s team has won 3 La Liga championships, 2 UEFA Champions Leagues, 4 Spanish Cups, 2 Super Cups, and 2 FIFA World Club World Cups.   The book starts with the characteristics of the players and the philosophy of Barcelona and builds into a comprehensive overview of the defensive tactics employed with clear diagrams and detailed descriptions. This gives football coaches an unbelievable chance to learn how Barcelona play and adapt their tactics to combat any team they play. Their defensive work is so important to their success and allows them to be such a strong attacking force.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        October 2010

        Coaching Mini Soccer

        A Tried and Tested Program of Essential Skills and Drills for 5 to 10 year olds

        by Richard Seedhouse

        Coaching Mini Soccer (5 - 10 years) book contains a complete and proven full season training program comprising 12 main sessions and over 70 interchangeable drills to coach the skills required to produce academy standard players and teams.   FACT - eight players in the last three years have been signed by professional clubs through participation in this program. In its basic form the program can be used by grassroots youth clubs for coaching skills in their soccer academies, community soccer programs, after school programs, or by primary school teachers as a term based program.   As the players develop through the program and form Mini-Soccer teams the coach can draw on the programs tactical games to aid formations and small sided games to improve creativity, game awareness and problem solving.   Bonus drills are also included as the program matures with the players providing an easy to follow and proven structure for any club, team or school to follow. This is simply the only book any coach of players between 5 and 10 years will ever need to provide proven training sessions every single week.   Does it work?   In 2010 the local Championship Club took 5 players at U9 from its home city, 3 of them were from Coundon Court FC this made 8 players in three years signed by two different professional clubs and all coached using the program in this book.   Coaching Mini-Soccer is specifically written to be the only book any coach of players between 5 and 10 will ever need to provide proven training sessions every single week.

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