This book is a comprehensive resource for coaching the 4-3-3 formation at all levels. The level of detail will help you emulate how top coaches, such as Pep Guardiola, Maurizio Sarri and Jürgen Klopp use the 4-3-3 to great success. It will enable you to see all the solutions, in order to optimise your team's tactical awareness and performance.

This book covers both the attack and defense phases in these popular modern zone formations. Lucchesi starts with a discussion of the characteristics of the players at each position and builds into a comprehensive tactical overview complete with build-up options and attacking schemes in the attack and marking responsibilities and zonal movement in defense. Also includes schemes for countering specific formations.

The updated and expanded second edition of this classic book on the 4-3 defense contains six new chapters by some of America's best coaches, including: Chuck Pagac on the OSU 4-3 secondary coverages, Terry Hoeppner on the outside linebacker in the 4-3 defense, Sunny Lubick on the 4-3 blitz package, and Tommy Tuberville on the Auburn 4-3 Defensive Package. Contains 12 other articles on virtually every other aspect of the 4-3 defense.

This 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. This book goes into great detail to show the movement of all players within the 3-5-2 system of play in various tactical situations and against different formations, in the attacking and defensive phase. This will enable you 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: 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 Renato Montagnolo has a UEFA 'B' Coaching Licence and a Patentino Match Analyst Licence. He has been working as a First Team Assistant Manager and Match Analyst for the past few years in Serie C in Italy. With experience of writing books and articles, speaking and teaching, Renato is a respected football tactics expert.

A detailed tactical overview and analysis of the popular 4-3-3 system of play. This book is your guide to implementing the 4-3-3, from selecting your players through coaching and teaching every phase of play. Main topics include tactical principles, attacking schemes, transition and counterattack, and build up and finishing. Also includes several game situation exercises to reinforce these concepts.

The 4-2-3-1 is a system that Arsenal, Real Madrid, Everton, Bayern Munich and many more professional teams use. The formation can be employed in many different ways depending on the personnel available. It can be used to play a conservative, defensively sound counter-attacking game or opened up for an ultra-offensive approach. The interchanging of positions, room for tactical adjustments, defensive soundness, room for creativity and overall fluidity of the system is what makes the 4-2-3-1 effective. This book will take you through the fundamental roles and responsibilities of each player within the system. It also provides multiple training exercises, explains and demonstrates individual and team movement patterns, covers the strategy of team defending and team attacking in the 4-2-3-1 and a number of ways to modify the system.

This Defensive system is so prevalent throughout the country and this book help you learn all about it. The history and evolution of the 4-3 defense is covered along with chapters on defensive linemen, linebackers, secondary coverages, basic blitz packages, and more!

The 3-3-1-3 is not an entirely new concept, though it has become more popular in recent years due to its dynamic attacking nature. In particular, former Chile National Team coach Marcelo Bielsa and former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola have implemented this system with great success. This book explores, in detail, the strengths and weaknesses of the system, the roles and responsibilities of each player in both attack and defense and the permutations of the team shape against different formations and in varying situations. Depending on the circumstances at any one moment of the match in terms of the score, the opponent’s tactics, time remaining etc., the formation could become a 1-3-4-3, a 1-2-3-2-3, or even a 1-5-4-1 in an ultimate defensive setup. This adaptability, the FLEX, is made possible by teaching players to recognize the rotations required "on the fly" by presenting them with very specific game situations in training. In this book, Harrison takes you through his training sessions geared toward developing in players the tactical and spatial awareness necessary to run the FLEX 1-3-3-1-3 successfully.

Features a complete playbook for the 3-3-5 defense, capable of dealing with all of the problems that may confront a modern defense. Includes all of the terminology necessary to install the entire system, with detailed explanations and over 150 illustrations of how to stop football's most explosive running play with the 3-3-5 defense. Contains the assignments and techniques necessary to implement the most effective pass coverages (both man and zone) versus the modern passing game. Offers a complete stunt package that complements and enhances each pass coverage. Includes over 150 diagrams and illustrations.

This book is designed to challenge coaches to create a tactical system that is uniquely aligned with their philosophy on how the game should be played. With lot of new ideas both with session design, exercises and tactical implementation, Gary shares his personal experiences in the game and discusses many different ways in which other coaches have inspired him to think about the game in a much deeper level.