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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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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…
Football

Football organized by children?!

  Two days ago, I was undergoing some scouting work in a cup match, in Egypt, and at halftime (a 20 minute long one...) there was more than enough time to observe a happy group of kids having fun in the stadium with one ball and…
Football

Research in sports coaching

After completing another research visit around English Football Clubs I concluded that It was a rich experience that contributed to my professional development regarding trends in Football. In my opinion researching new methodologies is not…
Football

1st team coach role

Currently the 1st team coach job demands a profile that has to touch in different branches of a professional football team. The ability to be flexible, loyal, to follow the Manager's philosophy and guidelines is the trigger point of an excellent…
Football

Leadership in football

We are in a time where the game knowledge is a crucial aspect that a Football coach should master. However acting as a "true" leader is, in my opinion, what makes the difference between building the commitment and will to win as team or failing…