SOCCER DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Attacking fundamentals
Information
Author:
YouCoach
Year:
April 2025
Pages:
110
Series:
Age Groups
Under 9Under 10Under 11Under 12Under 13Under 14Under 15Under 16Under 17
Drills for YouCoach App included
All drills presented in this e-book will be avaiable as digital drills usable when creating a training session in YouCoach App.
All drills presented in this e-book will be avaiable as digital drills usable when creating a training session in YouCoach App.
$7.90
Format Avaiable:
E-book
PDF format
Attacking. From the basics.
Summary
Attacking. From the basics.
Description
Attacking. From the basics.
Preview
Here's how the e-Book is structured
Here's how the e-Book is structured:
- How to kick the ball
- How to receive and control the ball
- How to drive the ball
- How to dribble the ball past an opponent: changes of direction, stops and starts, feints
- How to head the ball
- How to cover the ball
- 30 exercises, concerning: passing, receiving, receiving to turn, dribbling, fenining, 1 v 1 off the ball, ball cover, turning, crossing, finishing, shooting, throw-in
And if you are a YouCoach subscriber, access to the package available in YouCoachApp is already included in your subscription to prepare your workouts with the exercises in the e-Book.
All the proposals collected in this e-Book were created with YouCoachApp, the web application developed by YouCoach which simplifies the technical management of the season. Click here for more info.
Positional play and Pep Guardiola's evolution
Information
Author:
YouCoach
Year:
October 2023
Pages:
110
Series:
Age Groups
Under 15Under 17Under 21First Team
Drills for YouCoach App included
All drills presented in this e-book will be avaiable as digital drills usable when creating a training session in YouCoach App.
All drills presented in this e-book will be avaiable as digital drills usable when creating a training session in YouCoach App.
$9.90
Format Avaiable:
E-book
PDF format
From fixed principles to fluid game-play: the evolving future of soccer tactics.
Summary
From fixed principles to fluid game-play: the evolving future of soccer tactics.
Description
From fixed principles to fluid game-play: the evolving future of soccer tactics.
Preview
Here's how the e-Book is structured
Here's how the e-Book is structured:
- Pep Guardiola, positional play and FB Barcelona (2008-2012)
- The first evolution at Bayern Munich (2013-2016): inverted full-backs and half-spaces
- Positional play in England and Pep’s seasonal tactical metamorphosis at Manchester City
- Haaland at Manchester City: from the inverted full-back to the inverted center-back
- Exercises
And if you are a YouCoach subscriber, access to the package available in YouCoachApp is already included in your subscription to prepare your workouts with the exercises in the e-Book.
All the proposals collected in this e-Book were created with YouCoachApp, the web application developed by YouCoach which simplifies the technical management of the season. Click here for more info.
From positional play to nowadays non-systemic soccer
Information
Author:
YouCoach
Year:
July 2023
Pages:
120
Series:
Age Groups
Under 15Under 17Under 21First Team
$9.90
Format Avaiable:
E-book
PDF format
From fixed principles to fluid game-play: the evolving future of soccer tactics.
Summary
From fixed principles to fluid game-play: the evolving future of soccer tactics.
Description
From fixed principles to fluid game-play: the evolving future of soccer tactics.
Preview
Here's how the e-Book is structured
Here's how the e-Book is structured:
- Total football, Johan Cruijff, positional play and Guardiola. What and who are they, and which are the points of connection?
- How did Johan Cruijff’s Barcelona play?
- Arrigo Sacchi’s AC Milan: a total football evolution in Italy. Positional relations and connections in the 1-4-4-2
- May 18th 1994: Milan 4-0 Barcelona. The day the italian way beat Cruijff’s positional play
- Guardiola’s and positional play’s effect on coaches: De Zerbi case and Klopp studies
- Did positional play become trapped by itself?
- The low defensive blocks to counter the positional play. Barcelona’s defeats against Mourinho and Do Matteo
- Liquid and fluid, relations, spatial connections, situations of play. Is this a break point, or a natural evolution of soccer?
And if you are a YouCoach subscriber, access to the package available in YouCoachApp is already included in your subscription to prepare your workouts with the exercises in the e-Book.
All the proposals collected in this e-Book were created with YouCoachApp, the web application developed by YouCoach which simplifies the technical management of the season. Click here for more info.
Match with build-up play
Goal:
Equipment
- Markers
- 6 vests
- 2 goals
- Balls
Preparation
- Playing Area: 30x50 meters / 33x55 yds
- Players: 12 + 2 goalkeepers
- Duration: 30 minutes
- Series: 2 of 15 minutes
Summary
Thematic game for the youngest age groups
Organization
Thematic game for the youngest age groups
Description
Quick diagonal passes
Goal:
Equipment
- 4 markers
- 4 soccer mannequins (or poles)
- Balls
Preparation
- Playing area: 15x15 meters / 16x16 yds
- Players: 8
- Duration: 10 minutes
- Series: 2 of 4 minutes each with 2 minutes of recovery in between
Summary
Technical circuit to improve quick combinations between players
Double rectangle: Exit build-up zone for a 1 vs 1 inside finishing zone
Goal:
Equipment
- Markers
- 4 vests
- Balls
- 2 goals
Preparation
- Playing Area: 15x20 meters / 16x22 yd
- Players: at least 10 (8 + 2 goalkeepers)
- Duration: 16 minutes
- Series: 2 of 7 minutes each with 1 minute of recovery inbetween
Summary
Drill to train the tactical movement of building from the back followed by 1 vs 1 situation inside finishing zone
Kick and defend: running with the ball, dribbling and finishing
Goal:
Equipment
- 2 cones
- 1 marker
- 8 vests
- 2 goals
- Balls
Preparation
- Playing Area: 30x40 meters / 33x44 yards
- Players: at least 14 + 1 goalkeeper
- Duration: 15 minutes
- Series: 1
Summary
Exercise that trains ball driving, 1 v 1 and goal shooting
Quick 1 v 1 with shot on goal
Goal:
Equipment
- Markers
- Balls
- Vests
- 1 goal
Preparation
- Playing Area: 15x20 meters / 16x22 yards
- Players: whole team
- Duration: 15 minutes
- Series: 2 of 7 minutes each with 1 minute of recovery in between
Summary
Practice for fast ball driving and goal shooting with 1 v 1 situation (attack and defend)
Organization
Practice for fast ball driving and goal shooting with 1 v 1 situation (attack and defend)
Description
Conditioned game on three zones
Goal:
Equipment
- Markers
- 4 vests
- 2 mini goals (or poles)
- Balls
Preparation
- Playing Area: 20x45 meters / 22x49 yds
- Players: 8
- Duration: 24 minutes
- Series: 4 of 5 minutes with 1 minute of recovery in between series
Summary
Conditioned game with the field divided into three zones and limited space
9 v 9 situational game
Goal:
Equipment
- Markers
- 9 vests
- 4 mini goals
- Balls
Preparation
- Playing Area: half field
- Players: 18
- Duration: 14 minutes
- Series: 2 of 6 minutes each with 2 minutes of recovery between sets
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