After the hugely popular Volume 1, Volume 2 gives you rare insight into Pep Guardiola's Training Sessions with another chance to learn from one of the best coaches in the history of football.

Pep Guardiola 85 Practices Include:

• Warm-ups (training and match day)
• Speed & Agility (without/with ball)
• Technical Circuits
• Passing
• Rondos
• Juego de Posición (Positional Games)
• Possession Games
• Attacking Positional Patterns of Play
• Small to Large Sided Games

Taken directly from Pep's training sessions at Manchester City, Bayern Munich and FC Barcelona.

This is your chance to practice and apply Pep Guardiola’s training sessions to develop your players' speed, agility, technique and positional play – a unique opportunity to improve your team's performance using practices from the highest level.

• 132 Pages
• FULL COLOUR Print
• 85 Practices & Variations
• U14-Pro Level

Pep Guardiola Practice Topics Include:

• Training Session Warm-up Exercises (3 Man City)
• Manchester City Pre-Match Warm-up
• Speed and Agility Exercises Without a Ball (2 Man City, 1 Bayern)
• Speed and Agility Exercises With a Ball (7 Barcelona)
• Technical Circuits (8 Man City, 10 Bayern)
• Manchester City Passing Practices (6 Man City)
• Bayern Munich Passing Practices (7 Bayern)
• FC Barcelona Passing Practices (12 Barcelona)
• Rondos (5 Man City, 1 Barcelona)
  • "Juego de Posición" (Positional Games) and Possession Games (5 Man City, 4 Bayern, 4 Barcelona)
• Attacking Positional Patterns of Play (4 Man City)
• Small to Large Sided Games (2 Man City, 1 Bayern, 2 Barcelona)

Pep Guardiola Practice Examples:

• Combined Actions, Switch of Play, Cross + Finish in a Speed Practice
• High Intensity Speed, Power and Agility Training Circuit with 3 v 2 Duel
• 3 v 1 + Quick Passing Combination with Aerial Pass in Behind and Finish
• 3 v 1 Ground and Aerial Triangle Rondos
• "Juego de Posición" 8 v 8 (+3) Possession and Transition Game

This fantastic FULL COLOUR book is a comprehensive resource for coaching the 3-5-2 formation at all levels. The level of detail and tactical solutions included will help you emulate how top coaches, such as Antonio Conte (inter) and Nuno Espírito Santo (Wolverhampton Wanderers), use the 3-5-2 to great success.

The 3-5-2 formation has been deemed by many to be a defensive system, but this is not the case. A system of play is not universally attacking or defensive - it is the interpretation of the coach that determines the characteristics of the team's play.

This book outlines the 3-5-2 formation as an expansive possession based system, which focuses on playing through the lines of the opposition and utilises the wing backs as an attacking outlet in wide areas.

This will enable you to:

• Optimise your team’s tactical awareness and performance
• Counteract the opponent’s positioning, organisation and decision making
• Coordinate and solve specific game situations in a flexible way
• Train these patterns of play repetitively, so that the players' reading of the game becomes automatic

This book includes:

• Tactical Strengths and Weaknesses of the 3-5-2 Formation
• 3-5-2 Tactics Against Different Formations (4-4-2, 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3, 4-3-1-2, 3-5-2 and 3-4-3)
• Overcoming the First Line of Pressing (Build-up Play from the Back)
• Moving the Ball in Between the Opposition's Midfield and Defensive Lines
• Playing in Behind the Opposition's Defensive Line
• Defensive Organisation and Pressing
• Organisation of the Defensive Line
• 41 Practices and Variations to Apply Tactical Solutions with the 3-5-2

• 160 Pages
• FULL COLOUR Print
• 84 Game Situations
• 41 Practices
• U15-Pro Level

Chapter 1: Tactical Strengths And Weaknesses Of The 3-5-2 Formation:

the first chapter provides an analysis of the 3-5-2 system, with reference to the strengths and weaknesses in the attacking and defensive phases.

Chapter 2: 3-5-2 Tactics Against Different Formations:

The main part of the book (chapter 2) is focused on examining the 3-5-2 system against many different formations in both phases:

• 4-4-2
• 4-2-3-1
• 4-3-3
• 4-3-1-2
• 3-5-2
• 3-4-3

For the attacking phase, 3 different situations are examined:

1. Overcoming the First Line of Pressing (Build-up Play from the Back)
2. Moving the Ball in Between the Opposition's Midfield and Defensive Lines
3. Playing in Behind the Opposition's Defensive Line

For the defensive phase, 2 different situations are examined:

1. Pressing and Defensive Organisation
2. Organisation of the Defensive Line

Chapter 3: Training Session Examples:

Finally, in the last chapter, we organise our 3-5-2 tactical practices into 8 specific training sessions:

1. Build-up Play from the Back
2. Playing Through the Lines
3. Switching Play
4. Playing in Behind the Defensive Line
5. Combined Movements of the 2 Forwards
6. Transition from Attack to Defence
7. Aggressive Pressing
8. Organisation of the Defensive Line

Coach's at all levels can use these practices with their team and adjust them according to the conditions they have (time, space, characteristics of the players etc.)

84 Tactical Game Situations and Solutions include:

• Wide Centre Back's Options to Play Through the Opposition's Midfield when Pressed by the Opposing Winger
• The Wing Back Decides Whether to Play in Behind or Pass Inside Based on the Opposition's Pressing
• Defensive Midfielder's Options to Play Through the Opposition's Midfield when Dribbling Through the Centre
• Central Midfielder's Options to Play in Behind the Defensive Line After Receiving Between the Lines
• Wing Back Moves to Press the Opposing Full Back and the Central Midfielder Provides Cover
• The Winger's Combination Play in the Final Third to Receive or Play in Behind
• Maintaining a Numerical Advantage at the Back and Defending the No.10 Against the 4-3-1-2

41 Practices & Variation including:

• Build-up Play from the Back in a Dynamic 8 (+GK) v 6 Game
• Playing Through the Lines in an 8v8 Game with 6 Mini Goals
• Switching Play in a 3 Zone Conditioned Game with 4 Mini Goals
• Attacking Interplay, Playing the Final Pass and Timing Runs in Behind the Defensive Line
• Combined Movements of the 2 Forwards in a Passing Warm-up
• Fast Transition from Attack to Defence in a 3 Zone Conditioned Game
• Aggressive Pressing High Up the Pitch to Stop Build-up in a Dynamic Conditioned Game

This FULL COLOUR book gives you a rare opportunity to use Pep Guardiola's Practices and learn from one of the best coaches in the history of football.

The 88 Attacking Combinations and Attacking Positional Patterns of Play included are taken direct from Pep Guardiola's training sessions at Manchester City, Bayern Munich and FC Barcelona

Find out why Pep Guardiola marks out zones on the training pitch and how he uses them to practice his unique positional patterns of play, maximise space, disorganise the opposition and move the ball into dangerous attacking areas (“Half Spaces”).

Pep Guardiola Practice Topics Included:

• 60 Attacking Positional Patterns of Play in the 4-3-3 and 3-5-2 Formations
  (50 Manchester City, 3 Bayern Munich & 7 FC Barcelona)
• 28 Attacking Combination Practices
  (8 Manchester City, 10 Bayern Munich & 10 FC Barcelona)

• 148 Pages
• FULL COLOUR Print
• 88 Practices & Variations
• U14-Pro Level

Pep Guardiola Practice Examples:

• Passing Combination and Aerial Pass in Behind for a Third Man Run
• Fast Combination Play with Lay-off, Overlap Run, Cross and Finish
• Switching Play for the Wing Back to Receive in Behind with Overlap Run
• Both Forwards Drop Back to Combine + Attacking Midfielder’s Third Man Run
• Fast Combination Play + Short Diagonal Aerial Pass in Behind

This FULL COLOUR book provides a tactical analysis of Pep Guardiola’s 4-3-3 Attacking Tactics (56 Tactical Examples) for you the coach to learn from one of the best coaches in the world.

The aim of the book is to use the innovative attacking tactics of Pep Guardiola to create chances and score goals, with variations depending on the opposition players’ positioning and reactions within their formation (4-4-2, 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3 and teams with a back 5).

Athanasios Terzis is a UEFA 'A' Licence Coach and has used this analysis to produce 12 Full Training Sessions (70 Practices and Variations). You can use these ready-made sessions to practice Pep Guardiola’s attacking tactics and implement them into your training sessions.

Pep Guardiola’s Tactical Analysis:

1. Overcoming the Pressing of the Opposing Forwards
2. Positioning and Rotations with Inverted Full Backs
3. Creating and Exploiting Overloads in Wide Areas
4. Attacking Options when the Overload Out Wide is Blocked
5. Moving the Ball Wide and Receiving in Behind the Full Back (or Create Space for Inside Pass)
6. Combination Play Out Wide when the Overload is Blocked
7. Stretching the Opposition’s Defence and Switching Play
8. Attacking Options when the Attacking Midfielder Receives Between the Lines
9. Exploiting Space Created when the Opposing Centre Back Pushes Out to Press the Ball
10. Attacking Through the Centre with the Forward Dropping Back to Receive
11. Switching Play to the Weak Side when the Overload is Blocked Against the 4-3-3
12. Attacking Against a Back 5

• 180 Pages
• FULL COLOUR Print
• 56 Tactical Analysis
• 12 Sessions
• 70 Practices & Variations
• U14-Pro Level

Each Tactical Situation has analysis of Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City attacking tactics and is followed by a full training session to help you adapt the tactics into your training sessions for your team.

Tactical Analysis and Session Topic Examples:

• Positioning and Rotations with Inverted Full Backs
• Creating and Exploiting Overloads in Wide Areas
• Moving the Ball Wide and Receiving in Behind the Full Back
• Stretching the Opposition’s Defence and Switching Play
• Attacking Through the Centre with a Third Man Run

Practice Examples:

• Rotating Movements with Inverted Full Backs in a Passing Rotation Practice
• Reading the Opponent’s Reactions to Best Exploit Overloads in Wide Areas
• Moving the Ball Wide and Receiving in Behind the Full Back in a Dynamic Game
• Attacking Through the Centre with a Third Man Run in a Functional Practice
• Stretching the Opposition’s Defence and Switching Play in a Conditioned Game

This fantastic FULLCOLOUR book is a comprehensive resource for coaching the 4-3-3 formation at all levels. The level of detail and tactical solutions included will help you emulate how top coaches, such as Pep Guardiola, Maurizio Sarri and Jürgen Klopp use the 4-3-3 to great success.

This book is written by Massimo Lucchesi, a tactical expert with many top selling books, most recently winning the prestigious Italian FA (FIGC) Award for "Best Coaching Book" 2018 ('Liquid Organisation,' 2018 Allenatore.net) and has conducted over 100 football coaching tactics seminars across the world.

Massimo never stops learning and has observed the training sessions of some of the best coaches in the world, such as Carlo Ancelotti, Luis Enrique, Antonio Conte, Pep Guardiola, Maurizio Sarri, Diego Simeone + many more.

This book goes into great detail to show the movement of all players within the 4-3-3 formation in all phases, tactical situations and against different formations. This will enable you to see all the solutions, in order to optimise your team’s tactical awareness and performance.

Tactical solutions are provided for all game situations, in relation to how to counteract the opponent’s positioning, organisation and decision making.

This book will teach you to coordinate and solve specific game situations in a flexible way with many different options and tactical solutions. As a coach, you can train these patterns of play repetitively, so that the players' reading of the game becomes automatic and the team is quickly able to recognise and find the best solutions to solve every conceivable tactical situation.

This book includes:

• Goalkeeper’s Distribution from Goal Kicks
• Build Up Play to Counteract Different Types of Pressing
• Build Up Play Against Different Formations
• The Creating Phase
• The Finishing Phase
• The Defensive Phase
• How to Organise Training Sessions
• 25 Practices to Apply Tactical Solutions within the 4-3-3 in All Phases

• 200 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 129 Game Situations
• 25 Practices
• U15-Pro Level

A well-organised team, in which all players know how to recognise different tactical situations and support each other, is able to enhance the characteristics of the individual and allow them to produce higher quality performances. However, technically skilled players still need to be able to communicate with each other and interact effectively. This shows how important the organisation of the game is.

The aim of the book is to highlight the principles that coaches must know and use to organise the modern game system. Learn to create a fluid and flexible environment where players know how to recognise tactical processes and relate to each other within shapes and geometric structures, to solve specific tactical situations within different areas of the pitch.

129 Tactical Game Situations and Solutions include:

• How to Build Up Play Against 2 Forwards and a No.10
• Using a "Link Player" to Get Around the Pressing of Our Centre Back Against 1 Forward
• Using the Forward as a "Link Player" to Pass to the Winger
• Switch Play to Attack on Opposite Side: Tactical Solution Against Teams That Withdraw into their Own Half and Defend Deep
• Playing In Between the Midfield and Defensive Lines: Exploiting Pressing Depending on the Opposing Players' Reactions
• The Winger's Combination Play in the Final Third to Receive or Play in Behind
• Counteracting Opponent’s Movements In Various Zones and Pressing Types

25 practices including:

• Goalkeeper's Distribution and Build Up Play from the Back in a 7 (+GK) v 6 Dynamic Game
• Ball Circulation to Exploit Wide Areas in an 8 v 4 Zonal Tactical Practice
• Possession Play + Fast Attack in Behind the Opposition's Defence in a Dynamic Practice
• Pressing to Win the Ball High Up the Pitch in a Dynamic 6 v 7 (+GK) Game
• Build Up Play from the Back to Finish in a Dynamic Tactical Game
• Creating an Opening and Passing in Behind in a Dynamic 4 Zone Game

This groundbreaking book written by Juan Luis Delgado Bordonau PhD and José Alberto Mendez Villanueva PhD is a complete blueprint for Tactical Periodization, providing coaches with the tools to organise the whole football training process - from one specific training practice, to full season planning.

Tactical Periodization is a proven successful football coaching method. All training is driven by tactical training. It allows you the coach, to improve all other attributes (technical, conditioning and decision making) at the same time, within every single tactical practice.

The Benefits of Tactical Periodization:

• Helps you accelerate your players' understanding of their positional roles and responsibilities in an efficient way, which ultimately improves the team's tactical performance
• Assures your players are always prepared tactically, mentally and physically for competitive matches
• Your players (and team) will react quicker, be sharper, and make better decisions in all tactical situations

The " Game Model" guides the entire training process. Training must “model” the game through specific practices (specificity) that include all the tactical game principles designed by the coach. You will learn the principle of performance stabilisation, so you can maintain your team’s high performance levels throughout a full season.

• 244 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 120 Tactical Periodization Topics
• 60 Tactical Situations & Practices
• U16-Pro Level

This is your chance to learn the Tactical Periodization method which has been applied by top coaches, with José Mourinho being the most influential and successful. Other examples are Vitor Pereira, Leonardo Jardim, Brendan Rodgers, Marco Silva, Nuno Espírito Santo and André Villas-Boas.

Many other top coaches ( Pep Guardiola among them) have adopted part of these Tactical Periodization principles, building their training method around the development of a game model and its principles, using the tactical dimension to lead their training.

This book includes:

• The background and development of Tactical Periodization
• The Methodological Principles
• The Game Model (specificity)
• Tactical Organisation in the 4 Phases of the Game
• Analysing the Previous Match Performance
• Analysing the Next Opponent
• Weekly Training Objectives
• Training Sessions for a 1 Match Week
• Training Sessions for a 2 Match Week

There are many Tactical Topics and Training Practices including:

• Building Up Play from the Back and Creating Overloads Against a Compact 4-4 Formation
• Attacking with "Third Man Runs"
• Reorganising into Defensive Block Positions
• Pressing as a Collective Unit + Fast Break Attack
• Dropping Off, Compactness and Counter Attack with Switch of Play
• Defending Direct Play into 2 Forwards and Winning the Second Ball

This incredible FULLCOLOUR book helps coaches improve improve their training sessions to build up play against high pressing teams, using the tactics of Marcelo Bielsa. .

Athanasios Terzis is a UEFA 'A' Licence Coach and has produced extensive analysis of Marcelo Bielsa in 9 different tactical situations, supported with 9 full training sessions (35 practices). Athanasios is the author of some of the best-selling Football Coaching books, most notably 'Jurgen Klopp's Attacking and Defending Tactics', 'Coaching the Juventus 3-5-2' and 'FC Barcelona Training Sessions', which won the Italian FA Award for “Best Coaching Book” in 2014.

The book includes Marcelo Bielsa's tactics (and playing philosophy) for:

• Building up play from the back against high pressing teams
• Full analysis of his 4-2-3-1, 3-3-3-1 and 3-4-3 formations

Marcelo Bielsa's attacking philosophy includes a mix of:

• Short and long passing
• Moving the ball to the free player through 'link players'
• Creating numerical advantages
• Dragging opposition players out of position and exploiting the gaps created

Marcelo Bielsa is a highly respected coach and is famous for his innovative playing style, tactics and formations. He has had a massive influence on football across the world and on other top coaches, such as Pep Guardiola, Mauricio Pochettino, Jorge Sampaoli and Gerardo Martino.

The aim of the book is to use the innovative tactics of Marcelo Bielsa to provide a complete guide of how to build up play effectively against high pressing teams.

• 124 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 9 Game Situations
• 9 Sessions
• 35 Practices
• U14-Pro Level

To successfully build up from the back, the team in possession has to follow four steps:

• Step 1: Provide a free passing option for the goalkeeper
• Step 2: Move the ball to the target or free player
• Step 3: Create a numerical advantage in specific areas of the pitch
• Step 4: Take advantage (exploit) the numerical advantage

Each chapter has extensive analysis for a tactical situation based on Marcelo Bielsa's tactics and is then followed by a full session to help all coaches adapt the tactics into training sessions for their team.

• Chapter 1: Building Up Play from the Back Against 2 Forwards
• Chapter 2: Moving the Ball to the Target Player on the Weak Side
• Chapter 3: Building Up Play from the Back Against 1 Forward
• Chapter 4: Creating and Exploiting 3 v 2 Situations Near the Sideline
• Chapter 5: Attacking Solutions with a 3 v 3 Situation Near the Sideline
• Chapter 6: Creating and Exploiting Space in a 4 v 3 (or 4 v 4) Situation Around the Ball Area
• Chapter 7: Building Up Play Against Ultra-Offensive Pressing

This incredible FULLCOLOUR book helps coaches improve their training sessions in the most important phases of the modern game - the transition phases.

The best teams in recent years (Simeone's Atlético Madrid, Guardiola's Barcelona & Bayern, Klopp's Dortmund, Mourinho's Real Madrid & Ranieri's Leicester) have been successful largely due to their performance in the transition phases.

This book provides 32 transition game situations based on tactical analysis of Diego Simeone, Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp, Jose Mourinho and Claudio Ranieri's tactics.
Michail Tsokaktsidis is a UEFA ‘A’ Licence coach and has used this analysis to produce 23 full sessions (98 practices) including:

• Transition Games
• Fast Break Attacks
• Counter Attacking
• Small Sided Games
• Pressing to Win the Ball
• Defensive Reactions to Recover the Ball
• Team Shape and Organisation

You can use these ready-made sessions to practice these top coaches' tactics and find solutions for every tactical situation:

• Transition from defence to attack in the Low, Middle and High Zones.
• Transition from attack to defence in the Low, Middle and High Zones.

• 220 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 32 Game Situations
• 23 Sessions
• 98 Practices
• U12-Pro Level

32 Transition Play Tactical Analysis including:

• Diego Simeone: Press, Win the Ball + Counter Attack with Quick Combination Play in Limited Space
• Pep Guardiola: Fast Transition to Attack from the Back: Exploiting Space in Behind
• Jurgen Klopp: Quick Transition to Defence in the Middle Zone
• Jose Mourinho: Team Shape and Collective Pressing When Possession is Lost
• Claudio Ranieri: Defensive Organisation to Win the Ball and Fast Running to Support Counter Attack

98 Practices (23 Full Sessions) including:

• Defending in a 4 v 4 Situation and Quick Transition to 4 v 2 Counter Attack
• High Press and Fast Transition to Attack in an 8 v 8 Tactical Game
• Counter Attacks in a Dynamic 3 Zone Transition Game
• Defensive Reactions After Finishing an Attack in a Dynamic Transition Game
• Regaining Possession High Up the Pitch in a 6 Goal Game
• Fast Reactions to Recover the Ball in a Dynamic 7 v 7 Game

This fantastic FULLCOLOUR book is written by Tag Lamche, a UEFA A Licence (part 1) Coach and a specialist in vision and awareness (perceptual and cognitive skills). In this book Tag shows you how to play ‘’From Build Up to Finish’’, providing numerous practical examples of combination play from the keeper, through defence, midfield and attack to create goal scoring opportunities.

Every tactic and practice suggested in this book has been fully tried and tested at professional academy level. Furthermore, all the likely problems and challenges you may face when implementing this philosophy are described and specific solutions are then explained in an easy to follow format. This distinguishes this book from other coaching books and makes it an invaluable resource for coaches. It’s vital to have a philosophy, but it's equally vital to know how to turn that philosophy into reality!

We present a commitment to “playing out” from the keeper and advancing with good possession using coordinated movement patterns through the 4 phases of play (Build Up, Consolidation, Incision and Finishing phases) including 40 tactical game situations and 66 practices.

• 160 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 40 Game Situations
• 66 Practices
• U12-18+ Level

As well as being structured, it is important to present players with a rich variety of options or tactical tools they can explore. In this way you empower players to make their own decisions - individually and collectively - as well as encouraging them to use their own creativity and natural attributes to best apply these methods into practice.

There are detailed chapters to outline the 4 phases of play and additional chapters for Supplementary Technical Training and Set Pieces.

40 Game Situations analysed including:

• Midfield Rotation: Coordinated Movement Patterns
• Playing Out from the Back
• Creating Space to Play Through Pressure
• Creating Scoring Opportunities
• Key Attacking Runs to Finish

66 practices including:

• Exploring “Opening Up” to Receive & One-Touch Passing
• Rotation of the Midfield 3 in a Pass & Move Practice
• Exploring the Third Man Run & the Classic One-Two Combination
• Playing Through the Thirds with Two-Way Pressure in a Zonal Possession Game
• Switching Play to Create Goal Chances in a Small Sided Game

This long awaited book in FULL COLOUR contains a full and extensive analysis of the most successful team using the 3-5-2 formation in modern football. This tactical blueprint is explained clearly with supporting diagrams, notes and detailed descriptions.

Juventus have won 4 consecutive Serie A league titles (2012-2015) which included an incredible 49 game unbeaten run. They scored 291 goals (1.91 per match) with a total win percentage of 72%. During this time they also won the Coppa Italia and reached the Champions League final in 2014.

THE SUCCESS OF JUVENTUS USING THE 3-5-2

Juventus are a very successful attacking team that focus on exploiting their numerical advantage at the back, patient build up play, pushing many players into advanced positions and finally creating and exploiting space in behind the defensive line.

There are 51 tactical analysis topics which have been used to produce 21 sessions (64 practices) including:

• Functional Practices
• Opposed/Unopposed Zone Play
• Game Situations
• Small Sided Games
• Transition Games
• Small Sided Games

This will enable you to coach your team to attack like one of the most successful teams in Europe.

• 232 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 51 Tactical Analysis Topics
• 21 Sessions
• 64 Practices
• U14-Pro Level

Session and Practice Topic SAMPLES:

• Dropping Back to Create Space, Quick Change of Direction, Receive and Finish
• Individual Actions of the Forwards to Create Space in a Dynamic Small Sided Game
• Making a Run On the Blind Side and Finishing in a Functional Practice
• Creating a Numerical Advantage Near the Sideline in a Zonal Game
• Receiving Between the Lines and Playing the Final Pass (Unopposed)
• Exploiting Space Between the Centre Back and Wing Back On the Strong Side (Opposed)
• Receiving Between the Lines and Quick One-Two Combination in a Dynamic Small Sided Game
• Creating an Overload to Receive Unmarked in Between the Lines (Unopposed)
• Quick Combination With a Lay Off Pass, Final Pass in Behind and Finishing (Opposed)
• Creating and Exploiting Space With Synchronised Movements and 3rd Man Run in a SSG
• Creating and Exploiting a Numerical Advantage Near the Sideline in a Functional Practice
• Balanced Positioning of the Attacking Midfielders and Defensive Reactions in a Transition Game

This long awaited book in FULL COLOUR contains a full and extensive analysis of the most successful team using the 3-5-2 formation in modern football. This tactical blueprint is explained clearly with supporting diagrams, notes and detailed descriptions.

Juventus have won 4 consecutive Serie A league titles (2012-2015) which included an incredible 49 game unbeaten run. They scored 291 goals (1.91 per match) with a total win percentage of 72%. During this time they also won the Coppa Italia and reached the Champions League final in 2014.

THE SUCCESS OF JUVENTUS USING THE 3-5-2

As the impressive stats tell you, Juventus are a very successful defensive team. They focus on maintaining a numerical advantage at the back, pressing to force the ball wide, tightly marking all potential receivers, keeping a compact formation and blocking through passes.

There are 54 tactical analysis topics which have been used to produce 12 sessions (40 practices) including:

• Functional Practices
• Opposed/Unopposed Zone Play
• Game Situations
• Small Sided Games
• Transition Games
• Small Sided Games

This book will enable you to coach your team to defend like one of the most successful defensive teams in Europe and shows you how exactly how Juventus defended, providing the positioning and movement of the players in all possible game situations.

• 236 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 54 Tactical Analysis Topics
• 12 Sessions
• 40 Practices
• U14-Pro Level

Session and Practice Topic SAMPLES:

• Horizontal Shifts of the Centre Backs (Pressure, Cover and Balance)
• Cohesive Movements of the Centre Backs: When to Drop Back and When to Push Up
• Defending an Open Ball Situation in a 4 Zone Positional Practice
• Defending Against 2 Opposition Forwards by Applying Pressure, Providing Cover and Maintaining Balance
• Defending With the Wing Back On the Weak Side in an Effective Position
• Retaining Shape and Cohesion to Block Through Passes in Midfield
• Defending Against the Opposition Midfield (Pressure, Cover and Balance
• Defending Against the Opposition Midfield in a 3 v 3 End Zone Game
• Defensive Reactions to Retain a Numerical Superiority When Closing Down the Full Back Against the 4-2-3-1
• Defensive Positioning of the Forwards to Block Passes into Midfield
• Pressing With the Front Block and Preventing the Switch of Play in a Dynamic 7 v 7 Game
• Pressing on the Flank With the Opposition Winger in a Deep Position - Functional Practice

This fantastic FULLCOLOUR book is written by Pasquale Casà Basile, a UEFA Pro Licence Coach and a specialist in tactics and team management. Learn how to coach positional play and develop your tactics with the Spanish game model of "Expansive Football" so your team can play effective attacking football.

Through this method of teaching, players are also helped to grow in personality and taught fundamental values such as work rate, competitiveness, teamwork and the desire to win.

This book also provides detailed analysis of 34 different tactical situations and provides 47 practices for you to use when training your team.

There are detailed chapters to outline the "Expansive Football" game model including:

• Positional Attacking
• Developing an Effective Attacking Tactical Game
• Methodologies to Use in Training
• Teamwork and Collaboration
• Competitiveness and Desire to Win
• The Methods of Training
• Putting the Theory into Practice with "Expansive Football"

• 180 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 34 Tactical Situations
• 47 Practices
• U12-18+ Level

Pasquale Casà Basile (UEFA Pro Licence Coach) has had various roles, including with the Catalan Football Association and RCD Espanyol, where he coordinates, facilitates and develops the work of the youth team coaches, directing the development of tactics and periodization of the Spanish football model.

34 Tactical Situations analysed including:

• Building Up Play Against the Opposition's High Press (2 Markers)
• Support Play When the Ball is Out Wide
• Retaining a Balanced Formation in the Possession Phase
• The Transition from Attack to Defence

47 practices including:

• Switching the Point of Attack with Player Movement in the Final Third
• Quick Combination Play with Positional Inter-Changing of Diagonal Movements
• Maintaining Possession in the Centre with a Quick Break Attack
• "Expansive Football" Combination Play in a 7 v 2 Attack vs Defence Practice

This revolutionary book in FULL COLOUR contains a complete conditioning program based on Periodization Fitness Training. Periodization is the systematic planning of fitness training. This book helps you solve the problem of organizing the training loads in order to achieve the highest team performance possible at the different stages of a season.

This book includes practices that develop all the attributes needed for an individual and a team, such as:

• Warm ups with and without the ball
• Football specific conditioning with the ball
• Technical and Tactical practices
• Competitive small sided games
• Attacking and defending
• The transition from defence to attack and attack to defence.

The fitness practices in this book are very creative and aim to replicate competitive matches, so the players get used to making quick decisions and solving problems that arise during competition

• 168 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 68 Practices
• U14-Pro Level

Javier Mallo is currently a fitness coach at Real Madrid. He has previously been a fitness coach at Manchester City (2 years) and Atletico de Madrid (4 years). In this book, he explains how to create, organise and structure your football specific fitness training sessions.

Fitness coaches need to have a profound knowledge of the game, as all the practices in a session have to come together in a common way of thinking related to the tactical organisation of the team. It may be possible that in the following years the term fitness coach will lose all its value and will simply be replaced by coach or assistant coach.

Practice Topic Samples:

• WARMING UP: Technical: Passing Combinations in Groups of 3
• CONDITIONING: Coordination & Agility Training in a Conditioning Circuit
• TECHNICAL: Passing Combination Play with Crossing & Finishing
• TACTICAL: Position Specific 8 (+2) v 3 Zonal Possession Game
• COMPETITIVE SMALL SIDED GAMES: Maximum Intensity SSG with Outside Support Players

This long awaited book in FULL COLOUR contains a full and extensive analysis of Jurgen Klopp's Borussia Dortmund team. This tactical blueprint is explained clearly with supporting diagrams, notes and detailed descriptions.

This analysis has been used to produce 14 sessions (53 practices) including functional practices, opposed/unopposed zone play, transition games, game situations and small sided games.

Tactical Analysis Coaching Topics :

• Pressing Against Teams With Two Defensive Midfielders (4-4-2 / 4-2-3-1)
• Creating Superiority In Numbers And Blocking All Passing Options (Centre Forward Is First Defender)
• Ultra Offensive Pressing
• Pressing Against The 4-3-3 Formation
• Blocking The Vertical / Inside Passes And Forcing The Ball Wide
• Defending In The Middle Third
• Preventing Through Balls
• Defending Near The Sideline
• Switching From Passive Defending To Pressing
• Defending Against Teams With A Three Man Defence
• Defending In The Defensive Third

• 220 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 91 Tactical Analysis Topics
• 14 Sessions
• 53 Practices
• U14-Pro Level

Jurgen Klopp's Borussia Dortmund are a very successful team that focus on high tempo pressing, preventing through balls and preparing for the transition from attack to defence when in possession. Jurgen Klopp has led his team to two Bundesliga titles, one German cup and the Champions League Final in 2013.

Session & Practice Topic Samples:

• Applying Pressure on the Goalkeeper and the Centre Back, Preventing Passes Inside and Forcing the Ball Wide
• Pressing High Up the Pitch, Forcing the Ball Inside and Blocking Potential Passes in a Dynamic Zonal Game
• Applying Immediate Pressure on Midfielders (Prevent Them From Turning) in a Dynamic Zonal Practice
• Pressing Centre Backs, Preventing Through Balls and Forcing the Ball Wide in a 6 Zone Dynamic Practice
• Preventing Through Balls with Good Decision Making and Cohesive Movement in a Dynamic 8 v 7 SSG
• Defending Near the Sideline in a 9 v 9 Dynamic Small Sided Game With Side Zones
• Switching from Passive Defending to Pressing and Creating a Strong Side in a 2 Phase Dynamic SSG
• Retaining Superiority In Numbers at the Back Against the 4-4-2 in a 6 v 4 Dynamic 4 Zone Transition Game
• Retaining Superiority in Numbers at the Back Against the 4-2-3-1 in a Simple 2 Zone 4 v 2 Practice
• Retaining Balance in the Midfield Line to Prepare for the Transition From Attack to Defence 6 v 6 Zonal Game
• Retaining Balance Near the Sideline to Prepare for the Negative Transition in a Dynamic 8 Zone Transition Game
• Retaining Safety Players when Building Up Play in a Dynamic 4 Zone 9 v 10 Transition Game

This long awaited book in FULL COLOUR contains a full and extensive analysis of Jurgen Klopp's Borussia Dortmund team. This tactical blueprint is explained clearly with supporting diagrams, notes and detailed descriptions.

This analysis has been used to produce 16 sessions (75 practices) including functional practices, patterns of play, possession games, transition games, opposed/unopposed zone play, game situations and small sided games.

Tactical Analysis Coaching Topics :

• Creating Space On The Flank
• The Centre Forward Creating Space in the Centre
• Creating and Exploiting Space in the 2nd Stage of Attack with Passing Combinations.
• Overloading on the Flank with The Centre Back or Defensive Midfielder
• Passing Combination: Vertical or Diagonal + Square Pass
• Passing Combination with a Third Man Run
• Long Passes in Behind the Defence
• Switching Play
• Direct Positive Transition
• Indirect Positive Transition with a Forward Pass
• Indirect Positive Transition with a Switch of Play

• 256 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 95 Tactical Analysis Topics
• 16 Sessions
• 75 Practices
• U14-Pro Level

Borussia Dortmund are a very exciting team that play at a high tempo with a good style and fluidity. Jurgen Klopp has led his Borussia Dortmund team to two Bundesliga titles, one German cup and the Champions League final in 2013.

Session & Practice Topic Samples:

• Building Up Play Under Pressure, Creating Space on the Flank and Crossing in a Dynamic Zonal Practice
• The Forward Dropping Deep to Create Space in Behind in a 10 v 7 Zonal Game
• Creating and Exploiting Space with a Complex Passing Combination in a Dynamic Zonal Practice
• Creating a Numerical Advantage on the Flank (3 v 2) in an 8 v 8 Dynamic Small Sided Game
• Overloading - Forward Moving to Receive Towards the Flank in a Functional Practice
• Vertical or Diagonal + Square Pass Combination in a 5 Zone Possession Game
• Passing Through the Centre with a Lay-Off Passing Combination in a 6 (+4) v 6 End to End Possession Game
• Building Up Play Under Pressure, Passing Combination with a Third Man Run and Finishing
• Switching Play with the Width Provided by the Full Back in a 7 v 4 Practice
• Collective Defensive Movements, Press High and Quick Counter Attacks in an 8 v 8 Transition Game
• Indirect Positive Transition with Switch of Play in an 8 v 8 Transition Game
• Direct Positive Transition to Create a 2 v 1 Situation on the Flank in a Dynamic Zone Play Transition Game

This special book is in FULL COLOUR book contains tactical and technical exercises that have been formulated from the tactical situations which are presented in the book ‘FC Barcelona: A Tactical Analysis - Attacking and Defending’.

This book has 2 main aims:

1. To deeply analyse how and why Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona, possibly the best team of all time, used their specific tactics in different game situations.

2. Provide you with a training session for each tactical situation with progressive practices.

• 244 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 160 Practices
• 34 Tactical Situations
• U12-Pro Level

Athanasios Terzis is a UEFA ‘A’ licence coach and has provided a full and extensive analysis of Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona team, often described as the best ever.

This analysis has been used to produce 34 sessions (160 practices) including: quick passing functional practices, patterns of play, possession games, transition games, opposed/unopposed zone play, game situations and small sided games

Practice Topic Samples:

• First Touch and Awareness Passing Sequence
• Passing Through the Midfield Line 3 Zone Possession Game
• Changing the Direction of Play in a 2(+5) v 4 Possession Game
• Creating Space for the Wingers in a Dynamic 2 Zone SSG
• Using the Correct Body Shape in a 4v4 (+5) Possession Game
• Creating Passing Options in a Dynamic End Line Game
• Receive, Turn and Pass in Limited Space
• Building Up From the Back Pattern of Play
• 5v4 (+1) Position Specific 3 Zone Combination Game
• Chain Reaction Pressing High Up the Pitch in Side Zones
• Dynamic Pressing & Counter Attack Game

This Full Season Training Program book is in FULL COLOUR and offers you a 48 complete sessions comprising of 240 practices for the age group of U13-15.

Soccer Italian Style coaches Mirko Mazzantini (AFC Fiorentina) and Simone Bombardieri (Empoli FC) are both professional academy coaches with years of experience coaching players to high elite 'Technical Excellence' standards.

• 190 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 240 Practices
• 48 Sessions
• U13-15 Level

This full season training program book focuses on the most important skill attributes for U13-15 with the objective to develop players to high professional academy standards. Also referred in the Italian Serie 'A' academies as "Technical Excellence".

Session and Practice Topic SAMPLES:

• Warm Up: One Touch Play with One-Two Combinations
• Conditioning: Technical Quickness Circuit
• Technical: Ball Control, Crossing and Finishing Practice
• Game Situation: 5v3 Dynamic Possession Game with Target Goalkeeper
• Specific Game: Awareness in a ‘2 Teams, 4 Colours Game’

This top class book in FULL COLOUR - Spain Attacking Sessions is the 2nd in a series of books which provide you with a blueprint of how to attack and score goals like the world’s best teams.

Michail is a UEFA ‘A’ license coach and has provided a full and extensive analysis of the Spanish National Team's best goals during the 2008-2012 period when Spain won Euro 2008, the World Cup 2010 and Euro 2012.

This goal analysis has been used to produce 31 ready-made sessions (140 practices) including: functional technical practices, patterns/phases of play, possession games, transition games, opposed/unopposed zone play and small sided games.

You, the coach, can learn how to train your team in the same style as Spain and adapt your own training methods to produce outstanding results.

• 272 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 48 Goal Analysis
• 31 Sessions
• 140 Practices
• U12-Pro Level

A This book includes chapters on how to play in all the different phases of the game and against various different oppositions and formations. The first 3 chapter are based on attacking against teams which defend in the low, the middle and the high zone. Chapters 4, 5 and 6 focus on the transition from defence to attack in the low, middle and high zone.

Learn Exactly How Spain Found Attacking Solutions for Every Tactical Situation with Sessions Such as:

• Passing through the Midfield Line in the Centre
• Fast Break Attacks
• Transition to Attack from the Low Zone: Passing through the Lines
• Quick Transition to Attack when Defending a Corner Kick
• Attacking in and Around the Penalty Area

Practice Topic Samples:

• Quick Finishing in a 2 Zone 6 v 6 (+4) Small Sided Game
• One Touch Combination Play and 3rd Man Run with Finishing
• 6 (+4) v 4 Possession Play in the Centre Transition Game
• Crossing & Finishing with Quick Transitional Wide Counter Attacks
• Switching Positions to Create Space in a 6 v 6 (+4) End to End Possession Game
• Transition to Defence / Attack in a 4 (+2) v 4 Possession Game
• Possession Play & Pressing in a 4 (+3) v 4 Transition Game