How do players learn how to hold the ball, run free properly and recognize gaps in their opponent’s defence and use them at lightning speed? How do you convey a clever game in depth, a surprising game shift with a final goal kick?In this book I present 44 systematically ordered tactical games to convey important tactical behaviours in attack and defence. Attack: Staying in ball possession (determine playing speed) Running intelligent (use gaps) Shift side of the field Triangular formations Double pass and fast combination play Playing in depth and exploiting goal-scoring opportunities Defence: Skilful duel behaviour Delay an attack Provoke mistakes Anticipate and catch balls The 44 exercises are vividly illustrated and contain important information on organisation, structure of the training form, sequence, possible variations, as well as additional tips and suggestions. An overview of tactical games: 20 tactical games 3 v 1 16 tactical games r 4 v 2 8 tactical games 6 v 4

The second part of the “Tactical Games” is about position games with neutral players from 1 against 1 to 4 against 4, vary the number of “Jokers” and their position inside and outside the field. Help the players getting as many chances to score and then use them perfectly. With the tactical games of this book the following focal points can be coached: Emphasis on the outnumbered team: Competitive shooting training Fast shifting from defence to attack Intelligent running into space Staying in ball possesion and securing the ball Shifting side of play Creating and using of space Fast combination play Focus on defensive players: Fast and smart counter attack Fast switching from defence to attacking Skilful duel behaviour against outnumbered groups Provoke mistakes of the attackers Anticipate and intercept the balls The 50 tactical games in this book will give you many ideas for a varied tactical training.

Professional teams like Real Madrid, Arsenal London and Bayern Munich play attacking soccer the way it should be played: The entire team switches to offense as soon as they win the ball, instead of waiting for their opponents to get back into formation. They instantly take advantage of holes in the opposition’s defense and get into the penalty box with just a few passes, usually direct ones. Most goals are scored within fewer than five passes. Rock-solid combination play and accurate passing, even under maximum opposition and time pressure: These are the critical skills that characterize successful teams.But how do you train accurate passing? And how do you lay the foundations for perfect combinations? This collection, corresponding to the booklet "The Art of Playing Attacking Soccer - Part 1" will help to show you how. From basic direct passing exercises to complex ones like Exercise 25, “Fully direct passing,” the first part of this series is all about fast passes and combinations. You will find exercises on important technical-tactical basics like the three-player combination. These exercises help players internalize pass sequences that will give them an edge in match play. The corrections you make and the example you set are especially important.

A positional attack is always started when a fast counterattack is not possible. It is characterized by a secure opening of the game and can be performed as a wing or frontal attack through the center.The attacking team plays the ball with targeted and safe pass sequences from the third of defense over the midfield into the attacking zone to prepare for goalscoring opportunities. Top teams are characterized by an almost perfect ball security in all game situations. Small and large positional games are very well suited for learning the process of securing possession of the ball. Definition „Positional Games“Positional games are small games in equal, lower, or higher numbers without goal with different - mostly tactical - tasks. Possible Tasks Keeping the ball in ball possession Reach a certain numbers of touches on the ball Switching field after a specified number of passes Touch-limit: One-touch, two touches, three touches, free play After the pass an additional task (sprint around cone)

In the second part of our series we show how to tune complex training forms to the level of the players and at the same time systematically increase their performance. You will learn how to vary exercises and thus change the focus of the training. The direction of rotation during the exercise and the distances between the players are important in all drills.

Creative Drills and Competitions Controlling, coaching and varying exercises and drills – arts and crafts at the same time. A small change in the rules, the implementation of a variation and the previous drill is completely different, with a different emphasis on priorities and a different art to play. One of the reasons to write this eBook is to practically represent the technical part of different control elements. Based on 30 drills for a 4 vs 4, we reveal and demonstrate creative ideas. Some echo a reduced 11 vs 11, some vary the level of difficulty and some present attractive competitions and contests. Many coaches link the drill 4 vs 4 to youth soccer. A clear situation, a close distance towards the goal and many ball touches are only a few advantages (on the following pages you will find many other ones). However, all ideas presented in this book can be transfered to greater exercises up to an 11 vs 11. Further, it is also possible to combine different ideas into other contexts and apply them on other exercises, so that a variety of training ideas and possibilities to control exercises is created. Thus, you can close tactical exercises up with an attractive competition or specifically increase the intensity and the level of difficulty by adding certain rules. Therefore, all presented drills and exercises can be executed in every age group and performed with all players of different levels. Presumed basic principles help you to include all the ten drills of every chapter into your own training routine and coach them. Little cues and remarks support you in finding other variations, understanding the game context even better or recognize and implement possible detailed coaching’s.

Dribbling exercises with a focus on ball control, twists, changes of direction and tempo changes certainly have their justification and are particularly useful in basic training if they are used in doses. The skills learned in basic training should then be developed as early as possible application-oriented in exercises and competitions. The successful design of offensive 1 vs 1 situations is always a great challenge for an attacker, because most defenders are well-trained in defensive tackling and also experience shows that they are extremely physical. Therefore, players in all leagues and levels are still very much in demand, who are capable of playing relentlessly attacking opponents in order to open rooms, to create a numerical majority, or to finish on the goal unchallenged.Players like Arjen Robben, Ronaldo, Franck Ribery, Lionel Messi, Alexis Sanchez or Neymar have a dribbling success rate of around 40-70%, which makes the difference.

Start your training well prepared by the drill-collection "Creative and Succesful Wing Play". The collection offers 53 soccer drills and 23 forms of play created by Sven Hübscher (FC Schalke 04, ). for all easy Sports-Graphics and easy Sports-Organizer users.

Passing is one of the most (if not the most) fundamental elements existing in soccer. Regardless of whether passes in the build-up, for instance: A centre-back who passes the ball to a centre-midfielder or in the last third as a deadly pass into the penalty area – accurate passing is crucial for every philosophy and style of play. A pass is that much more than the pure technical completion of passing the ball from player A to player B. Both the player on the ball and the receiver of the ball are situated under different tactical influences of the particular situation – sometime an opponent comes from the behind, sometime at first a space needs to be opened in order to pass the ball to a specific player. Reproducing those competitive-circumstances is the purpose of training passing.

Amateur- and youth coaches know the challenge to create a high-quality and for both players and coaches’ alike interesting training program additional to their day to day job burden. Simple, quickly arrangeable and highly variable Drills help to satisfy this aspiration. Exactly for this challenge we designed ‘36 Drills in a Circle’. We want to enable you as a coach to organize your routines plainly and highly variable at the same time with the necessary depth to coach in detail. The Drills are separated into three sections: Warm-Up Training Exercises Competition-Like Drills. Partially you will find content or coachings of a warm-up Drill in the chapter of training exercises, which allows you to optimally combine these different exercises and Drills among each other. Acommon problem for many coaches is the number of players, which drastically varies in short term. With Drills and exercises in a circle, that challenge can easily be overcome: You either reduce or extend the circle, thus the involved number of players.

What distinguishes successful teams like Bayern Munich, FC Barcelona or Manchester City from other teams?They are immensely precise in passing and are able to hold the ball in own possession for a long period of time to assess that one situation to play the gap pass and create goal-scoring chances. In this ebook, Willy Kasper presents exercises with the following thematic priorities: Precise Passing Perfect Combination Play Shift of The Play Quick Change of Positions Finishing. Content: Warm-Up in a Square (4 Variations) Wall-Play in Groups of 4 (1 and 2) Passing in a Triangle (1 and 2) Passing in a Square (9 Variations) Passing in a Small Rectangle (1 and 2) Passing in a Diamond (8 Variations) Endless Exercises for Passing (21 Variations)