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BALL CONTROL 1
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Year: 2011
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This teaching method has been developed in the youth and academy technical skills training programs of the Italian Serie 'A'.
It has been very successful in team development coaching programs that have produced players with exceptional technical skills. The simplicity of this program is a major reason for its success. These 60 exercises aim to develop, improve and maintain individual technical skills regarding ball control. Suitable for players of all ages and abilities, these exercises can be carried out in groups, pairs or alone - all you need is a ball. All of these exercises have a play for fun aspect that stimulates the will and motivation of the players during the workouts. Improve your ball control Italian Style! |
BALL CONTROL 2
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This teaching method has been developed in the youth and academy technical skills training programs of the Italian Serie 'A'. It has been very successful in team development coaching programs that have produced players with exceptional technical skills. These simple exercises for ball control develop the technique of feinting, dribbling and change of direction are a progression (from Ball Control 1) starting from skill based exercises to game situations with the final objective to shoot on goal. In modern soccer one of the most effective key to “unhinge” the opposing defensive lines that are organised tactically is to win the 1vs1 duels. For this purpose we are presenting more than 40 exercises to improve ball control and to stimulate their imagination and creativity at the same time. The technique of feint and dribbling is one of the fundamental techniques for player development and it appears to be an additional tool for all youth coaches who love working on technical skills. |
INDIVIDUAL DEFENDING
TACTICS
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Year: 2011

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Lesson Plans for Coaching 13-15 Year Old Soccer Players
The objective of this book is to share the actual training methodology used in the youth divisions of a professional Italian soccer club. The focus is on technical skills and at the same time teaching the fundamentals of individual tactics and group tactics as well as coordination and the fundamental aspects of conditioning.
Each lesson plan is chronologically organized to develop the technical aspect (by way of an initial warm up game and or a technical activity,) the physical aspect (by way of a coordination or conditioning activity,) and a Tactical aspect (by way of a game situation or game with a theme.)
The 45 lesson plans are organized into 15 instructional blocks based on 3 training sessions per week for a 2 week period. In order to provide the players a more efficient learning environment, it is suggested that each lesson plan is implemented twice.
So this book provides you with an insiders view to the training methodology of one of the world’s most renowned youth soccer clubs. |
ITALIAN ACADEMY TRAINING SESSION - U11-U14
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Year: 2011

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Soccer Italian Style coaches Mirko Mazzantini (AFC Fiorentina) and Simone Bombardieri (Empoli FC) are both professional football coaches and in this book provide a full soccer training program from their top Italian Serie ‘A’ academies. This book contains 12 complete soccer training sessions detailing over 80 practices and progressions as used in the academies of the Serie ‘A’. Each session focuses on technical or tactical elements of training and are structured “from simple practices to more complex game situations”. This outlines a complete program of training across the 12 sessions. The 12 sessions (over 80 practices) cover the following attributes:
Technical training; passing and receiving, quick combination play, possession, ball control and dribbling, 1 v 1’s, feints and moves to beat, crossing, finishing, shooting and heading, football specific conditioning with and without the ball, coordination, acceleration, speed, and agility training.
Tactical training; game situations, tactical small sided games, phase of plays, creating space and improving game intelligence, possession play, attacking combinations, Psycho-Kinetics (Think and Act Quickly), quick transitional play, defensive positioning, set plays, build-up play from the back and more. Most of the practices cleverly structured for “global training” which means working on more than one attribute at the same time. This is valid for all players, with drills and exercises for specific roles (Attackers, midfielders and defenders). |
ITALIAN ACADEMY TRAINING SESSION - U15-U19
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Language: English
Year: 2011

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Soccer Italian Style coaches Mirko Mazzantini (AFC Fiorentina) and Simone Bombardieri (Empoli FC) are both soccer professional coaches and in this book provide a full football training program from their top Italian Serie ‘A’ academies. This book contains 12 complete soccer training sessions detailing over 80 practices and progressions as used in the academies of the Italian Serie ‘A’. Each session focuses on technical or tactical elements of training and are structured “from simple practices to more complex game situations”. The sessions outline a complete program which provides a high level of training. The 12 sessions (over 80 practices) cover the following attributes:
Technical training; warm-ups with a ball, ball control, attacking and defending from 1 v 1 – tactical game situations, passing and receiving, Explosive Power, coordination, agility and speed training, football specific conditioning with and without the ball and more.
Tactical training; small sided games, phase of plays, functions, pattern play unopposed and opposed, psycho-kinetics training to improve player awareness and quick play, possession play, defensive positioning, counter-attacking, quick transition play, crossing and finishing, build-up play from the back and more.
Most of the practices are cleverly structured for “global training” which means working on more than one attribute at the same time. This is valid for all players, with drills and exercises for specific roles (Attackers, midfielders and defenders).
There are also numerous variations for many of the practices, meaning that they can be repeated again and again providing great practices for any coach to make hours and hours of top academy level training sessions.
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