Inside Front Cover Coach Great Soccer The Coerver Coaching Session Planner©2010. By Alfred Galustian and Charlie Cooke
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Authors Alfred Galustian, Charlie Cooke Editor Charlie Galustian 5 Contents
6 Forewords 65 HA 5 7 Author Profiles 66 HA 6 8 Coerver Coaching History 67 Testing 11 The Expertʼs View 68 Test 1 13 The Coerver Approach to Player Development 69 Test 2 - Our Mission (Coerver Code) 70 Test 3 - Our Curriculum (The Pathway to Excellence) 71 Test 4 17 The Coerver Session Planner 72 Test 5 20 How to Use this Book 73 Coerver Coaching around the World. 24 Glossary 25 Pie Segment: Coerver Warm Ups (WU) 26 W.U 1 27 W.U 2 28 W.U 3 29 W.U 4 30 W.U 5 31 W.U 6 32 Pie Segment Coerver Speed (S) 33 S.1 34 S.2 35 S.3 36 S.4 37 S.5 38 S.6 39 Pie Segment Coerver Moves (M) 40 M.1 41 M.2 42 M.3 43 M.4 44 M.5 45 M.6 46 Pie Segment: Coerver Small Group Play (SGP) 47 SGP 1 48 SGP 2 49 SGP 3 50 SGP 4 51 SGP 5 52 SGP 6 53 Pie Segment: Coerver Small Sided Games (SSG) 54 SSG 1 55 SSG 2 56 SSG 3 57 SSG 4 58 SSG 5 59 SSG 6 60 Pie Segment Coerver Home Assignments 61 HA 1 62 HA 2 63 HA 3 64 HA 4 6 Foreword Football is the worldʼs most popular sport. It crosses the boundaries that are language, culture and religion. Indeed football can be a wonderful way to communicate and open up dialogue when sometimes there is dispute or conflict. It can provide wonderful health benefits in these days where in some countries obesity is a serious problem. Above all, it can provide huge enjoyment to players and to spectators of the beautiful game. At the youth level there are many coaches, teachers and parents who do a wonderful job, giving up valuable time and energy to help young players progress and without financial remuneration. We who are professionals in the game of football have a duty to help at grassroots level by acknowledging the huge importance of youth development. The young are the lifeblood for the future. Of course, we need the best programmes and the best coaches to be ambassadors for the game, to spread the wonderful benefits the game can offer both on and off the playing field. In this regard I am very happy to introduce this new project devised by Alfred Galustian and Charlie Cooke. The Coerver Coaching Program, in my opinion, is the leading youth skills development programme in the world. The co-founders, Alfred and Charlie, are real leaders in technical training, in my opinion, and their concentration on the creative side of the game is so beneficial. In 1994, while I was Technical Director of the French Federation, I invited Alfred to work with our national and regional coaches at our National Training Centre in Clairfontaine where we developed wonderful young talents such as Thierry Henry. The influence of Alfredʼs work in France has been borne out in the development of many of our young stars. Alfredʼs recent appointment as Technical Skill Advisor to the Premier League is an essential step in maintaining the progression of young players in this country. The Premier League is arguably the best league in the world and choosing the best to work with the best will ensure the quality of the next generation of players coming into the Premier League. - Gerard Houllier, Manager Aston Villa Football Club. 7 Author Profiles
Alfred Galustian
Alfred is the co-founder and International Director of Coerver Coaching, and has been largely responsible for the expansion of the program globally.
He started his soccer career as a player with Wimbledon.
Alfred is a specialist technical coaches instructor and has worked as a Coaches Instructor at the French, English, Japanese and Australian Football Federations, and with Top Clubs Bayern Munich (Germany), Real Madrid (Spain), Olympique Marseille (France), Newcastle United and Arsenal (England).
He is currently the Specialist Skills Coaches Advisor to the Premier League.
Together with Charlie, he has authored several books, articles and videos on Coerver Coaching and Skill Development.
Charlie Cooke Charlie Cooke is the co-founder of Coerver Coaching and Director of North, Central and South America.
As a player, Charlie starred for Aberdeen FC and Dundee FC in Scotlandʼs First Division before joining Chelsea FC of the English First Division. At Chelsea he won the English FA Cup and the European Cup Winners Cup. He represented Scotland in international matches 16 times and was selected to The World All Star Team by FIFA.
Charlie completed his career as a player with the Los Angeles Aztecs of the North American Soccer League and also coached in the professional league. 8 Coerver! Coaching History
In the late 1970s, Dutch European Championship winning coach Wiel Coerver® led a revolution in soccer coaching. He was dissatisfied with the lack of individual skills and emphasis on defensive play in the professional game; an emphasis that many thought, was stifling the more exciting, attacking style of play necessary to score goals and attract fans.
Charlie Cooke, Wiel Coerver and Alfred Galustian
Up to that point, little attention had been given to individual skill development, because no one knew quite how to teach these skills. It was also, then, widely assumed that the great players of the game were innately gifted far beyond the capabilities of the average player. Coerver's early focus was on teaching ball mastery and 1 v 1 skills by encouraging players to emulate the “moves” of soccerʼs all-time greats, such as Sir Stanley Matthews, Cryuff, Beckenbauer and Pele.
Weil Coerver and Sir Stanley Matthews
In 1984, inspired by Wiel Coerverʼs Philosophy, Alfred Galustian and Charlie Cooke founded what is now known around the world as Coerver® Coaching. The first Coerver Coaching camp was in Lake Placid, New York, featuring the coaches pictured to the right, Mick Hoban, Andy Lynch, Sir Stanley, Weil Coerver, Alfred Galustian and Charlie Cooke.
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Since then, Coerver! Coaching has become a Global Soccer Education Network with operations in 25 Countries.
Coerver in Sweden
Over one million players and thousands of Coaches have attended Coerver Programs all over the World since 1984.
Coerver in Australia