Ray Power
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⚽️👀𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞
🔥 Thrilled to team up with
@KevinMcGreskin
to offer this to coaches
The value of scanning in football is priceless, but many coaches admit struggling with it
⚠️Spaces will fill (1/3 already gone!)
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The moment the Aussies found - and used - Denmark tactical note
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Arsenal players - full of internationals and top of the Premier League - playing ‘Robin Hood’ from the Level 1!
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Arsenal’s 150 point recovery system
Players can choose their preferred combination of recovery methods
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I spent 2 years in Africa, pulling together an academy of kids who’s development came in environments like this…
Is it any wonder they can deal with the ball?
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Practicing defending with side-on body shape - so they can squeeze forward or drop back quickly
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Xavi speaking about Barca’s 4P
- Position
Structure to know where team mates are (& to counter-press)
- Possession
“We would like to have 100% of the ball”
- Pressure
“We ‘recover’ the ball. We don’t steal it because it’s ours”
- Play
Take you to final 1/3 - the rest is you
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A documentary about Ajax Academy from way back in the 90s
And yet still I could argue everyday with someone about prioritising technical development over all else at youth level
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Success leaves clues
And this when Arteta was under severe scrutiny last season
#Standards
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Thiago scanning 👀
Scans as the ball is moving
Looks as team mate has a touch
Scans other way as ball is moving
Sells feint to 2 opponents
@GeirJordet
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The DEFENDING CORNERS setup of every Championship team last season
Would love to credit the originator
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“You have permission to make mistakes”
“I hate it when you don’t want this”
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UEFA commissioned a study several years ago on the psychological traits of Europe’s top youth players
Over 50 traits came up…
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Success leaves clues
Clips of Marcus Rashford as an academy player
Remember 0.01% of academy players will play in the Premier League. The levels of the top players are higher than many can comprehend
@MarcusRashford
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Midfielder Personalities & Picking Your Midfield - from the legend that is Michael Beale
Thread 🧵⚽️
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“In training we are super competitive. Where we take every minute seriously to really get better”
- Thomas Tuchel on training
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Defending corners from the
@FAIreland
Numbers in the wall / chargers, depending on location of free-kick
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Bernardo Silva was a wonderful player at U9, 10 & 11 - it was like Superman
Then he had problems: he was a skinny, small guy, and it was difficult for him to play under-14, 15, 16 & 17
So it's our obligation to have a good environment to develop that kind of
talented player.
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A few years ago, the Welsh FA put together their outfield player profiles, by position 🧵⚽️
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From a recent Academy presentation:
NON-NEGOTIABLES
In Possession:
⚽️ Be Brave
⚽️ Positive Movements to Receive
⚽️ Play Forward Intelligently
Out Of Possession:
⚽️ Never Give Up
⚽️ Run!
⚽️ Affect the Ball
⚽️ Make Contact
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Dennis Bergkamp with some intricacies of being a number 10
From Stillness & Speed
@TheAFCPodcast
@Orangeiceman10
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Did you know?
During a 90-minute game, players will spend over 50% of the time standing or walking?
And less that 3 minutes at high speed?
Physically, football is a stop-start game
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Progressing a formation from 7v7 to 9v9 to 11v11
From Man City Academy
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Guardiola - using short passes so you can:
1. Keep the ball more
2. Transition better when you lose it
@GuardiolaTweets
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The team that *usually* both score more and concede less than everyone else…
Pass backwards more than everyone else!
Thoughts?
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“My passion is scoring goals”
A brilliant behind the curtain look at one of Vincent Kompany’s early team meetings at Burnley
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A great visual of Man City training pitch and Guardiola’s use of the ‘5 Lanes’
Wide - Half Space - Central - Half Space - Wide
@Tactical_Times
@ground_guru
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Liverpool - Transition SSG
2 v 1 ➡️ 2 v 3
Working on their game model, right from pre-season
Technical, tactical, physical, psychological & social returns
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A very good visual about SCANNING, why it helps players in possession, and it’s implications for coaches
From
@NickGearing1
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Inside the Mind of a Coach
Found this while doing a clean-up. Some serious time and mental energy goes into what we do!! ⚽️
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When Bielsa’s Leeds United gave every coach the best (Emergency) Defensive Transition video possible 🏃💨
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I use Michael Beale’s stuff a lot as inspiration for sessions
Some very clever games in his 11v11 book, like this one
Ideas can be adapted to smaller pitch sizes and numbers
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Some excellent visuals on what being ‘compact’ looks like
Horizontally, but also vertically
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“These are your centre-back”
“I thought he was crazy”
GK Valdez talks about his first meeting with Pep about building from the back
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11 players all involved - built from the back, progressed with quick passes - and a cut-back assist 💉⚽️
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Example of an Academy Player Review that contains self and peer assessment
Although a big fan of player/peer contributions, I’m not a big fan of number / letter gradings
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One of my pet hates is talking about formations as tactics
Formations are just spacings and starting points
As we see below in this 4-3-3 example, even the same formation have different variables
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Bielsa’s 10 Tactical Systems 🧵⚽️
Visuals courtesy of Coach Reese
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🗣 RALF RANGNICK
“What is the job of a head coach?”
“To have a clear idea of how my team should play”
“They know exactly what it looks like”
“The job is to transform this idea into the heads, hearts, brains, veins of players”
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Putting together some defending sessions
2 from Leicester City Academy
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30 seconds of Sinisa Mihajlović twatting top corners against his GK at Torino
RIP
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The difference between first team priorities and development priorities
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There were ‘rules’ when I was growing up playing:
-Never play across your goal
-Pass to the GK outside his posts
-Never leave it 1v1 at the back
-If one FB goes, the other stays
-If in doubt, put it out
Don’t let these (&other) “rules” govern your coaching.
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I had a vision of all our teams sharing a playing style
This is the 1st possession of recent game
After regain, instead of 2 playing long, she uses GK. 66 immediately supports/opens body/scans
There's no Hollywood goal, BUT we end up in good possession in the final 1/3. Proud
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100 Pass Game
This game came up on a recent Coach Development Programme webinar
The session is from Michael Beale’s 11v11 book, but can be adapt for lower numbers too
I’ve even adapted & played it without GKs, using target players
I’ve also started at 25, 50 etc to layer it
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In 2013, The Independent predicted this as England’s starting XI for the 2022 World Cup
It goes to show how Talent ID and development is a seriously difficult skill
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Rondo Races from
@michael_loftman
Did this for the first time last week. Enjoyable, competitive and can be played with
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❗️1v1s are not just face to face
Facing Opponent
Opponent Behind
On Shoulder
Angled
Locked to the Line
Random
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Scaloni demanding the ball is pressed
“Travel as the ball travels”
The press and subsequent regain leads to the goal
#Arg
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Barcelona’s ideas on training set-pieces
The need for dynamic practice over static rehearsal
@BarcaInnoHub
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I am a mentor to a coach who’s fantastic with Foundation Phase… I couldn’t lace his boots when it comes to coaching younger players
He’s just received a message from a parent complaining
Apparently the other group of UNDER 6s is more “tactically savvy”
😳🤷♂️
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Guardiola Rondo FC BAYERN
We are often in awe of the speed and quality of a simple rondo like below…
It’s more interesting however if we consider the 3rd Line Passes, and how often they use 1st Line Passes to set up a 3rd Line one
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Norwich City’s Assistant Head Coach, Craig Shakespeare - mic’d up training session
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Always loved this visual from Belgium FA
Highlights how technical-tactical focus blends as young players get older
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