Descrição
This book analyses how Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta build play under pressure — and provides tactical detail and ready-to-use training sessions to help you coach those methods with your own team.
Whether your team struggles to build under pressure, or you want to give your players more structure and clarity when playing out from the back, this book provides a practical tactical framework to beat the press and build confidently from deep areas.
UEFA ‘A’ Licence Coach and award-winning author Athanasios Terzis delivers a detailed tactical analysis, with structured solutions and 47 practices across 7 ready-to-use session plans — making it easy to apply modern build-up principles in your sessions right away and see the difference on the pitch.
What You’ll Gain as a Coach:
- Play through high presses using structured box midfield rotations
- Create overloads in key areas to break pressure and progress play
- Exploit space with coordinated movements and passing combinations
- Build from the goalkeeper into the final third with control and intent
Whether you coach youth or elite players, this book gives you a proven, match-relevant framework to play out under pressure, beat any press, and dominate possession with confidence.
What’s inside?
- Tactical solutions for building up play against different pressing and defending styles
- Proven models for both 3-at-the-back and 2-at-the-back box midfield build-up systems
- 47 detailed training practices with progressions to simulate match-day pressure
- Step-by-step coaching points and progressions to build team intelligence in possession
- Position-specific detail to improve player decision making and timing