Spanish Academy Soccer Coaching 120 Practices From The Coaches Of Real Madrid Atl Tico Madrid And Athletic Bilbao

120 practices as used in the academies of La Liga providing a range of topics ideal for youth-level coaches wanting to develop teams to Spanish academy standards.

The Advanced Spanish Academy Coaching book provides an extensive range of practices from professional coaches from Villarreal CF, Real Madrid, a Spanish Football Federation Youth Development Coach and the China National Team Fitness Coach. This book contains 120 practices as used in the academies of La Liga. There are technical, tactical and conditioning practices ideal for coaches at youth level to develop their team to world leading, Spanish academy standards. David Aznar (Spanish Football Federation Youth Development Coach and former Atlético Madrid & Real Madrid Academy Coach) details his methods for long term planning, the importance of decision making and how to teach/learn through drills. His practices work on improving vision & spatial awareness, possession play and finishing. Rafa Juanes (Villarreal CF Technical Academy Coordinator and former Atlético Madrid Coach) outlines a special program designed for technical improvement in tactical positioning, working with centre backs, wide players, centre midfielders and forwards. Manu Dorado (Real Madrid Academy Coach) details the concepts for training and learning to deal with specific situations. The practices focus on creating intelligent players in game related drills and progressing your sessions through guided discovery. Fernando Gaspar (China National Team Fitness Coach and former Real Madrid & Benfica Coach) focuses on the physical preparation for ages 14-18, focusing on combining strength, speed, agility, stamina and flexibility with cognitive and coordinated football specific training.

Part 2 in the Spanish Coaching Bible Series covers high school, college and beyond. Laureano Ruiz is truly the guru of Spanish soccer. He has helped to develop some of the most highly skilled players in the world, including Ivan Helguera (Spain,Real Madrid), Ivan de la Pena (Spain, Lazio and as a coach at Barcelona had a huge influence on Hristo Stoichkov and even the great Johan Cruyff. This excellent book contains hundreds of drills and games, all clearly described with objectives and the appropriate age levels.

The maestro of Spanish soccer gives his insights and training suggestions for goalkeepers. Laureano Ruiz is truly the guru of Spanish soccer. He has helped to develop some of the most highly skilled players in the world, including Ivan Helguera (Spain,Real Madrid), Ivan de la Pena (Spain, Lazio and as a coach at Barcelona had a huge influence on Hristo Stoichkov and even the great Johan Cruyff. This excellent book contains hundreds of drills and games, all clearly described with objectives and the appropriate age levels.

The assistant soccer coach has existed for decades, and is a standard figure within the coaching staff, with specific roles, functions and responsibilities. However, I find it strange that nobody has yet described this profession formally. I used to only be a head coach, until one day I was proposed to be the assistant coach of U18 team of FC Barcelona. That is when I started thinking about writing this book, moved by my desire to continue learning. If I wanted to train in my new role I could only do it by asking others and observing training sessions. But I was missing one of the pillars that has forever supported my training: studying and reading. With this book I hope to cover that lack of information. The book is divided into two parts: the first is based on describing the assistant coach in professional soccer and I have not found a more practical way to do it than through interviews with assistant coaches. Each interviewee has contributed his experiences from working with the most recognized soccer coaches: I am talking about people who have worked with Vicente del Bosque, Ernesto Valverde, Luis Enrique, Pep Guardiola, Mauricio Pochettino, Sergio González, Quique Sánchez Flores, and Paulo Sousa. The second part of the book is related to Youth soccer, which I have experienced in clubs like Atlético de Madrid and FC Barcelona. I propose the role of the assistant coach working in Youth soccer to be more formative and educational than what is currently given, and I want to direct their effort towards two dimensions: the team's sporting performance (which the vast majority do) and the individualized analysis of the young player (which very few do). This second dimension is described in the last chapter, to demonstrate a new vision of assistant coaches in Youth soccer, who in my view have to dedicate their time to improving the players as an athlete and as a person in a more personalized and integral way.

This official RFEF book is written by Eduardo Valcárcel, the Director of the Spanish Football Federation Coaching School. He has used his experience to provide a full program of 96 technical and tactical practices which are ideal for coaches at youth level, who want to develop their players and teams to world leading Spanish standards.

Jose Mourinho Attacking Sessions is the first 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 Real Madrid s best 48 goals in the 2011-2012 season, when they scored a record 121 goals to win the Spanish Championship (La Liga). This goal analysis of Jose Mourinho s tactics has been used to produce 114 practices organised into 30 ready-made sessions. Each goal is analysed, followed by a full session on that specific topic of Real s attacking play, with clear colour diagrams, detailed descriptions and coaching points. You can use these ready-made sessions to practice Real Madrid s attacking play and combinations. You can learn exactly how Real found attacking solutions for every tactical situation created by opponent s who defended with a deep, middle or high defensive line. A large section of this book is based on the transition phase. You can learn how to coach your team to play like the best counter attacking team in the world . There are sessions on the transition from defence to attack in the low, middle and high zones. Practices included: Functional Technical Practices Phases of Play Opposed/Unopposed Zone play Counter-Attacking Exercises Transition Games Small Sided Games

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. Periodization is the systematic planning of fitness training. This book helps you solve the problem of organising the training loads in order to achieve the highest team performance possible at the different stages of a season. Within this book we provide fitness training which includes practices that develop all the attributes needed for an individual and a team, such as warm ups with and without the ball, conditioning, technical, tactical, competitive small sided games, attacking, 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. 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.