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100 FOOTBALL PRACTICES

Your Complete Coaching Toolbox.

100 practical, tested football practices designed to make coaching easier and support the development of every player.

Need a practice for passing?

Receiving?

Possession?

Finishing?

Defending?

1v1s?

Pressing?

Transitions?

Decision-making?

Or simply a game that gets your players playing, thinking and competing?

100 Football Practices brings together a complete collection of practical practices designed to support coaches across every area of the game.

Written by a professional football coach and coach developer, this is a resource built for the realities of coaching.

Less time searching.

Less time planning.

More time coaching.

100 PRACTICES. ONE COMPLETE RESOURCE.

Coaches need practices.

Sometimes you need a specific practice for a specific objective.

Sometimes you need a different way of developing the same topic.

Sometimes you simply need something that works.

This book provides 100 practical, tested practices covering the key areas of football development.

A resource you can return to throughout the season.

Use it to:

Plan sessions.

Solve problems.

Create challenges.

Develop players.

Add variety.

Save time.

Make coaching easier.

COVERING EVERY TOPIC

From technical development to tactical understanding, the collection covers the major areas coaches need to develop.

TECHNICAL

• Passing
• Receiving
• First touch
• Ball mastery
• Dribbling
• Ball carrying
• Finishing
• Crossing
• Heading
• 1v1 attacking
• 1v1 defending
• Tackling
• Interceptions

POSSESSION

• Keeping the ball
• Support
• Angles
• Movement
• Creating space
• Playing through pressure
• Progression
• Combination play
• Switching play
• Third-player combinations

ATTACKING

• Build-up
• Moving through the pitch
• Creating opportunities
• Chance creation
• Finishing
• Counter-attacking
• Overloads
• Isolations
• Penetration
• Attacking space

DEFENDING

• Defensive organisation
• Compactness
• Pressing
• Pressing triggers
• Defending space
• Protecting the goal
• 1v1 defending
• Preventing progression
• Recovering
• Defending crosses

TRANSITIONS

• Attack to defence
• Defence to attack
• Counter-pressing
• Recovery
• Regaining possession
• Attacking disorganisation
• Reacting to turnovers

GAME UNDERSTANDING

• Decision-making
• Awareness
• Problem-solving
• Scanning
• Communication
• Positioning
• Supporting teammates
• Recognising opportunities

One book. Every major area of the game.

MORE THAN JUST 100 DRILLS

These aren’t simply 100 exercises to fill your training sessions.

The practices are designed to create learning environments.

Players have to:

See.

Think.

Decide.

Act.

Adapt.

Compete.

The aim is to develop players who can perform techniques within the context of the game.

DEVELOP THE WHOLE PLAYER

Every player needs more than technical ability.

The practices provide opportunities to develop:

TECHNICAL

The ability to execute.

TACTICAL

The ability to understand.

PHYSICAL

The ability to perform.

PSYCHOLOGICAL

The ability to think, compete and respond.

SOCIAL

The ability to communicate and work with others.

DECISION-MAKING

The ability to choose the right action at the right time.

Develop the whole player, not just one component of performance.

MAKE YOUR COACHING LIFE EASIER

Coaching already involves enough demands.

Planning.

Organising.

Communicating.

Observing.

Coaching.

Analysing.

Reviewing.

Developing players.

Managing a team.

The last thing you need is to spend hours searching for your next practice.

This book gives you a ready-made coaching toolbox.

Open it.

Find the topic.

Choose the practice.

Adapt it.

Coach it.

FROM SESSION PLANNING TO THE TRAINING PITCH

Use the 100 practices to build complete sessions around specific objectives.

Need to work on possession?

Choose from a range of possession practices.

Working on defending?

Find practices that develop individual and team defending.

Preparing for a match?

Select practices that replicate the problems you expect to face.

Developing individual players?

Choose practices that target specific technical, tactical or decision-making needs.

The practice is there when you need it.

PRACTICAL. TESTED. READY TO USE.

Every practice has been created with real coaching environments in mind.

No unnecessary complexity.

No practices that only work on paper.

Just practical football practices that can be adapted and taken onto the pitch.

Set it up.

Explain it.

Let the players play.

Observe.

Coach.

Adapt.

Develop.

ADAPT THE PRACTICE

The best coaches know that one practice doesn’t have to look the same every time.

Change:

• Pitch size
• Player numbers
• Time
• Space
• Rules
• Conditions
• Scoring
• Direction
• Numerical advantages
• Level of pressure

Make it easier.

Make it harder.

Increase the challenge.

Reduce the challenge.

Target a different behaviour.

One practice can create multiple learning opportunities.

FOR EVERY PLAYER

The practices can be adapted to support different players and different environments.

Young players.

Grassroots players.

Academy players.

Development players.

Senior players.

Elite environments.

The coach controls the challenge.

The players experience the game.

FOR EVERY STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT

Whether you’re introducing a topic for the first time or challenging experienced players, the practices can be adapted to meet the needs of the group.

Develop:

Foundations.

Understanding.

Execution.

Decision-making.

Adaptability.

Performance.

Build practices around where your players are now and where you want them to go next.

SMALL-SIDED GAMES & GAME-BASED PRACTICES

Football is a game of constant interaction.

Teammates.

Opponents.

Space.

Time.

Pressure.

The practices create opportunities for players to experience these demands.

More involvement.

More decisions.

More actions.

More problems to solve.

More opportunities to learn.

TECHNIQUE IN CONTEXT

Passing isn’t just about passing.

Receiving isn’t just about receiving.

Dribbling isn’t just about dribbling.

Finishing isn’t just about shooting.

Players need to execute techniques while making decisions and responding to the game.

The practices connect technical execution with tactical understanding.

DECISION-MAKING AT THE HEART OF DEVELOPMENT

Football is a decision-making game.

Players constantly have to decide:

What can I see?

Where is the space?

Where is the pressure?

What is my best option?

Can I play forward?

Should I pass or carry?

Should I support or penetrate?

Should I press or recover?

The practices provide repeated opportunities for players to make decisions in realistic situations.

DEVELOPING GAME UNDERSTANDING

Use the practices to help players understand the relationships between:

The ball.

Teammates.

Opponents.

Space.

Time.

The goal.

Help players understand not just what to do, but why, when and where to do it.

ATTACKING & DEFENDING

Good footballers need to understand both sides of the game.

When attacking:

Create.

Combine.

Progress.

Penetrate.

Finish.

When defending:

Delay.

Protect.

Press.

Regain.

Recover.

The collection provides practices for developing players with and without the ball.

TRANSITIONS

The game changes the moment possession changes.

Can players react?

Can they counter-press?

Can they recover?

Can they exploit the opponent’s disorganisation?

Can they secure possession?

Can they attack quickly?

Transition moments provide some of the most important learning opportunities in football.

The practices help players recognise and respond to those moments.

FOR COACHES WHO WANT VARIETY

Players need repetition.

But repetition doesn’t have to mean doing exactly the same practice every week.

Use different practices to develop similar principles.

Create different problems.

Change the environment.

Challenge players in new ways.

Keep the learning objective while changing the learning experience.

FOR COACHES WHO WANT A RESOURCE THEY CAN RETURN TO

This isn’t a book you use once.

It’s a coaching resource you can keep beside you throughout the season.

Use it when:

Planning your next session.

Starting a new topic.

Preparing for an opponent.

Developing an individual player.

Changing your training environment.

Looking for a new challenge.

Needing a practice quickly.

100 PRACTICES. COUNTLESS POSSIBILITIES.

One hundred practices can become far more than one hundred sessions.

Change the players.

Change the pitch.

Change the rules.

Change the objective.

Change the level.

Change the challenge.

The same practice can create a completely different learning environment.

100 practices.

Hundreds of coaching ideas.

Thousands of decisions.

Countless opportunities to develop.

THE COACHING TOOLBOX

Think of this book as your coaching toolbox.

You don’t need every tool at once.

You need the right tool when you need it.

Passing?

There’s a practice.

Possession?

There’s a practice.

Finishing?

There’s a practice.

Defending?

There’s a practice.

Pressing?

There’s a practice.

Transitions?

There’s a practice.

Decision-making?

There’s a practice.

Small-sided games?

There’s a practice.

Player development?

There are plenty.

FROM PRACTICE TO PERFORMANCE

The ultimate purpose of training is to help players perform better in the game.

The practices aim to develop players who can:

Execute.

Understand.

Decide.

Adapt.

Compete.

Perform.

Take the learning from the training pitch into the real game.

TRUSTED BY PROFESSIONALS

The author’s eBooks are already being used and endorsed by professionals from the game.

Including:

Danny Röhl — Football Manager
Gaël Clichy — Former Manchester City & Arsenal player, Coach
Yohan Cabaye — Former Newcastle United & PSG player, Coach
Martin Devaney — Assistant Manager, Barnsley FC
Marlon Pack — Portsmouth Captain
Kenwyne Jones — Former Premier League player, Coach

Their use and support of the author’s work reflects the practical focus behind the books:

Football ideas that can be understood, applied and developed.

WRITTEN FROM THE PROFESSIONAL GAME

The author is a professional football coach and coach developer, bringing practical coaching experience to a collection designed to help coaches spend less time searching and more time coaching.

The aim is simple:

Make coaching easier.

Make practices better.

Create better learning environments.

Develop better players.

YOUR COMPLETE COACHING TOOLBOX

100 FOOTBALL PRACTICES

100 practical, tested football practices covering every major area of player development.

Passing.

Receiving.

Dribbling.

Finishing.

Possession.

Attacking.

Defending.

Pressing.

Transitions.

1v1s.

Small-sided games.

Decision-making.

Game understanding.

Player development.

Professional coaching insight.

For coaches. Coach developers. Players. Analysts. And football aficionados.

100 practices. Every major topic. One complete coaching resource.

Less time searching. More time coaching.

Make your coaching life easier.

Get your copy today.