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Pré Época – plano e definição de prioridades

A preparação duma época envolve diversos ângulos de ação / decisão no sentido da construção duma equipa para atingir objetivos, que seja competitiva a jogar bem. Procura-se o início da construção dum processo, esse pede projeção,…
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A Densidade Competitiva no Futebol de Elite

O Futebol profissional tem, ao longo dos últimos anos, registado um aumento considerável de jogos numa época, o que faz com que os calendários fiquem progressivamente mais densos com todas as implicações desportivas e financeiras que isso…
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Análise 🏟️ Luxemburgo 0 ⚽️ Portugal 6

📈 Portugal - compactos, intensos e verticais a maximizar a qualidade individual ✅ Bom rigor posicional com bola, com as linhas compactas preparando bem a perda, com os 3 DCs e Palhinha a serem chave no controlo dos contra ataques. A…
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A VISÃO DA EQUIPA COMO FAMÍLIA SOLIDÁRIA

O Futebol como um jogo de grande projeção mediática tem na sua essência a construção de equipas que possam render potenciando as qualidades dos seus jogadores. Um ambiente “familiar” positivo permite a expressão das pessoas que o…

The French National Team – diversity & performance

France 🇫🇷 National Team & "Le Monde de la Francophonie" France reached the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 final & some macro analysis points 🗒 come up to explain the consistent performances of french national teams. 📌 Since…
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National Team squad list – challenges & strategies

The qualifying stage has ended before the summer and recently, very early in the season, national team coaches had to build their lists for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. It is fair to say that a big amount of coaches have a core group of players…
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Football

Using offside space

Using offside space to get advantage behind the back of 4.
Football

Game situation – coaching philosophy

Exercise about creating chances and react quickly when possession is lost. Searching the goal and a quick reaction after losing possession to avoid the opponent's overload.
Zonal Pessing

Zonal pressing – Part 1

Ideas to help reducing space defending as a team Currently, in Football, having the control of the game has to be made with and without the ball. Having a good positional balance in the offensive process is key to be safe in possession. However,…

Zonal pressing – Part 2

Ideas to help reducing space defending as a team To have a solid defensive block the decisions in the ball area have to be quick and assertive to allow the lines to be tight (goalkeepers and defenders to push the team up). The triggers…
Football

Finishing and defensive transition

Game situation to get more finishing situations and optimize the defensive transition if there is no offensive success. Important to get a good defensive coordination. Progression from 3v2+Gk to 5v4+Gk.
Coaching

Football – Variation in creating chances

This exercise searches variations in creating chances by allowing different offensive overloads in the Football game.
Coaching

7v8 + 4v3+Gk – tactical game situation

Blue team starts organizing offense in overload (8v7) and when the ball is lost has to press quickly to avoid the reds offensive transition to an overload of 4v3+Gk.
Football

7v3 Possession and ball loss reaction

The most important players in the team

Routines for the most important players, the ones who play the least Football is still a game despite the media and social pressures trying to tell us otherwise. Professional footballers are not machines, they rely on emotions, affection and…
Football

Positional play – pressing and space

Creating triggers to decide Football today progresses to a stage which the identity of the teams is based on many different game philosophies (regarding the coach’s “fingerprint”) which rely on game principles (in a micro or macro perspective)…
Football

Preseason in elite football

Preparing the players for elite Football - "building intensity" In the modern game pace is a demand that all teams have to face and, for me, the most difficult stage is to “build” the players ability to keep their performance with composure…
Football

The coach fingerprint

Building the “play” Football has one truly magic thing, the singularity in which every person perceives the sport, the way his team plays and even the way he likes to play with his friends. In fact, we identify groups of supporters, coaches…
Coaching

Coaches creating information

Today life brings us a huge amount of information every second. The technical staff in professional football grows to a level which produces a huge amount of data that has to be managed or at least filtered. How does the coach manage that? How…