Through the Thirds: A Systematic Approach to Planning Your Football Season

Do you coach footballers and want to build a practical, possession-based soccer curriculum? You've come to the right place!

Through The Thirds - from leading youth coach Tony Mee - offers a practical methodology for football coaches working with 12+ year-old footballers, who want to see their teams play with technique, confidence, and tactical intelligence.

Based around a real-world training programme - which has been developed and delivered by Academy coaches with Academy players - it provides a logical series of progressions, and the opportunity to develop players across all areas of the pitch, both offensively and defensively.

The practices are designed for the 11-a-side game, and different team formations, and provide a complete season's programme of work. In turn, the book contains more than 140 fully-illustrated exercise plans in colour, alongside instructions for developing attacking play, strong defences, and effective transitions.

Chapters cover a host of areas, including: players' roles and responsibilities, warm-ups, developing play from the defensive third, developing play in the attacking third (including finishes), transitions from the defending third, and more.

Whatever level you coach at, Through The Thirds is a must-read coaching guide!

Note: Author royalties generated from this book will be donated to the Huntington's Disease Association.

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Through the Thirds: A Systematic Approach to Planning Your Football Season

Do you coach footballers and want to build a practical, possession-based soccer curriculum? You've come to the right place!

Through The Thirds - from leading youth coach Tony Mee - offers a practical methodology for football coaches working with 12+ year-old footballers, who want to see their teams play with technique, confidence, and tactical intelligence.

Based around a real-world training programme - which has been developed and delivered by Academy coaches with Academy players - it provides a logical series of progressions, and the opportunity to develop players across all areas of the pitch, both offensively and defensively.

The practices are designed for the 11-a-side game, and different team formations, and provide a complete season's programme of work. In turn, the book contains more than 140 fully-illustrated exercise plans in colour, alongside instructions for developing attacking play, strong defences, and effective transitions.

Chapters cover a host of areas, including: players' roles and responsibilities, warm-ups, developing play from the defensive third, developing play in the attacking third (including finishes), transitions from the defending third, and more.

Whatever level you coach at, Through The Thirds is a must-read coaching guide!

Note: Author royalties generated from this book will be donated to the Huntington's Disease Association.

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Through the Thirds: A Systematic Approach to Planning Your Football Season

Through the Thirds: A Systematic Approach to Planning Your Football Season

by Tony Mee
Through the Thirds: A Systematic Approach to Planning Your Football Season

Through the Thirds: A Systematic Approach to Planning Your Football Season

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Overview

Do you coach footballers and want to build a practical, possession-based soccer curriculum? You've come to the right place!

Through The Thirds - from leading youth coach Tony Mee - offers a practical methodology for football coaches working with 12+ year-old footballers, who want to see their teams play with technique, confidence, and tactical intelligence.

Based around a real-world training programme - which has been developed and delivered by Academy coaches with Academy players - it provides a logical series of progressions, and the opportunity to develop players across all areas of the pitch, both offensively and defensively.

The practices are designed for the 11-a-side game, and different team formations, and provide a complete season's programme of work. In turn, the book contains more than 140 fully-illustrated exercise plans in colour, alongside instructions for developing attacking play, strong defences, and effective transitions.

Chapters cover a host of areas, including: players' roles and responsibilities, warm-ups, developing play from the defensive third, developing play in the attacking third (including finishes), transitions from the defending third, and more.

Whatever level you coach at, Through The Thirds is a must-read coaching guide!

Note: Author royalties generated from this book will be donated to the Huntington's Disease Association.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781911121886
Publisher: Dark River
Publication date: 06/01/2020
Series: Soccer Coaching
Pages: 214
Product dimensions: 8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Tony Mee is a UEFA A Licence football coach, and leading coach educator based in the UK. He is currently working at League One Doncaster Rovers FC.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Formations and the players’ roles and responsibilities within them

Chapter 2: Warm-Ups

Chapter 3: Pre-Season

Chapter 4: Developing Play from the Defensive Third

Chapter 5: Defending in the Attacking Third (High Press)

Chapter 6: Counter-Attacking (Regains in the Attacking Third)

Chapter 7: Developing Play Through the Middle Third (Creating the Attack)

Chapter 8: Defending in the Middle Third (Medium Block)

Chapter 9: Counter-Attacking (Transitions from the Middle Third)

Chapter 10: Developing Play in the Attacking Third (Finishing the Attack)

Chapter 11: Defending in the Defensive Third (Low Block)

Chapter 12: Transitions from the Defending Third

Conclusion

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