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www.elitesoccercoaching.net MARCH 2019 SOCCER Exclusive Training practices from top professional managers WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS NUNO ESPÍRITO SANTO INPARTNERSHIPWITH TEAM FINISHING BRISTOL CITY SUNDERLAND THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION WALSALL LEE JACK MATTHEW GRAHAM JOHNSON ROSS BISHOP BIGGS Switching Transition to Lowblock& Delay, deny play counter-attack emergencydefending and dictate EXTRA-TIME INTERVIEW WITH FORMER PANAMA COACH, GARY STEMPEL INPARTNERSHIPWITH Elite Soccerispublishedby ISSUE 104/MARCH 2019: FROM THE CHAIRMAN Green Star Media Ltd Original training MBX124 19 Moorfield Road ground practices from Slyfield Industrial Estate Guildford the best coaches in the GU1 1RU United Kingdom professional game 4 NUNO Email: ESPÍRITO elitesoccer@ Dear Coach, SANTO greenstarmedia.net Welcome to the March issue of Elite Soccer, which this month WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS features another five training sessions from some of the best Editor: Team coaches currently working in the UK. Chris Hunt finishing Contributing Editor: Kicking off this issue is an engaging Premier League finishing Mark Farthing Consultant Coach: session from the highly regarded Wolverhampton Wanderers Dave Clarke manager, Nuno Espírito Santo. It has been devised to improve Illustrator: attacking combination play and finishing from crosses. Richard Palmer 8 Design: Lee Johnson is currently the manager of Championship side, LEE AT Graphics Bristol City, and he has written asession that is all about JOHNSON Photography: BRISTOLCITY Reuters switching the point of attack. It will help players to exploit space on the pitch and ultimately it will create more goal- Switching scoring opportunities for your team. play Sunderland manager, Jack Ross, has shared asession Publishedinpartnershipwith: that not only works on the speed of ateam’s transition from defence to counter-attack, but it also focuses on the reaction to losing possession. 11 JACK League Managers Matthew Bishop is acoach developer for the Football ROSS Association Association and he has penned atraining session that will SUNDERLAND St George’s Park show teams how to employ alow block and it will rehearse National Football Centre, Transition Newborough Road, players in emergency defending too. to counter Needwood, Burton upon Trent, At Elite Soccer we like to shine alight on some of the best -attack DE13 9PD coaches working in the academy football system and this Tel: +44 (0)1283 576350 month we bring you adefending session from Graham Biggs of Email:[email protected] Walsall’s academy. Chairman: 15 Howard Wilkinson I hope you find that the training sessions in this issue will be of MATTHEW Chief Executive: benefit to your coaching. Elite Soccer will return next month Richard Bevan BISHOP with five more ingenious training ground practices. THEFOOTBALLASSOCIATION This publication is protected Low block & by national and international copyright laws. Elite Soccer emergency will take legal action defending against any individuals or organisations found to be infringing our rights, and will make that action public. No part or whole of this report may be circulated elsewhere Howard Wilkinson,LMAChairman 18 or displayed on any website or distributed commercially GRAHAM except under licence from the BIGGS copyright owners. WALSALL © Green Star Media Ltd. All rights reserved Delay, deny and dictate 21 EXTRA-TIME …with former Panamaa manager Gary Stempel 2 MARCH 2019 www.elitesoccercoaching.net INPARTNERSHIPWITH ELITE SOCCER MARCH 2019 MANAGER PROFILES Here are the five managers and coaches we’re delighted to welcome into this issue of Elite Soccer LEE JOHNSON to stop the club’s eventual slide to NUNO ESPÍRITO BRISTOL CITY relegation. However, he turned the Lee Johnson’s playing career started the fortunes of the team around and SANTO with the youth teams of Arsenal and they were second in the Scottish WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS Watford, and took in promotions League One table when he left to take Having become ahighly regarded football at Yeovil Town and Bristol City. He over as manager of former club, St coach in such ashort time, Nuno Espírito finally retired after aspell in the Mirren, in October 2016. Santo is currently manager of Wolverhampton Scottish Premier League with In 2018 Ross led St Mirren to Wanderers in the English Premier League. Kilmarnock. the Scottish Championship title and promotion to the Scottish Known simply as Nuno during his playing Following in the footsteps of his Premiership. In recognition of this career as agoalkeeper, he first made aname father, the former Bristol City and achievement, he was named PFA for himself in Spain, playing for three teams Peterborough United manager Gary Johnson, he turned to coaching in Scotland Manager of the Year at the in five years. He later returned to his home March 2013, when he was appointed end of the season. He left the club to country of Portugal to sign for Porto and he manager of League One side, become manager of Sunderland in was part of the national squad at Euro 2008. He Oldham Athletic. He was just 31, May 2018. also played in Russia for Dynamo Moscow. making him the youngest manager After calling time on his playing career in in English football at the time. MATTHEW BISHOP 2010, he rejoined his former Porto manager In his first weeks in the job, he lifted THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION Jesualdo Ferreira as agoalkeeping coach, first the club out of the relegation zone Matthew Bishop is asenior national at Malaga and then at Panathinaikos. and saved Oldham from the drop. coach developer for the Football Becoming amanager in his own right, Espírito After asubsequent spell in charge Association and has vast experience Santo took over at Portuguese club, Rio Ave, in of League One club Barnsley, and at all levels of the game. May 2012. In his second season in charge, he having built areputation as one Starting his coaching career with the took the team to the final of both the Taça de of the best up and coming young Football Association of Wales, he not Portugal and the Taça da Liga, finishing both managers in the country, in February only served as asenior coaching co- cup competitions as runners up to Benfica and 2016 Johnson stepped up to the ordinator but he also enjoyed spells qualifying for the Europa League for the first Championship to manage his former as assistant coach for the Wales U16 time in the club’s history. club Bristol City. and U17 teams. He led City to the semi-finals of Success at Rio Ave brought about amove to Subsequent coaching appointments the 2017–18 League Cup, beating Spanish giants Valencia. He led the club to a included assistant manager at several Premier League clubs Newport County, Aldershot Town fourth place finish in hisst fir season and was including Manchester United. named La Liga Manager of the Month three and Hereford, before becoming times. JACK ROSS manager of Aberystwyth Town. Moving to Porto in June 2016, he finished SUNDERLAND He has also served as assistant manager of England’s U20s team. second in the league before leaving the club Currently the manager of League and relocating to England, where he was One side Sunderland, Jack Ross’s named manager of EFL Championship side, playing career took in stints at Clyde, GRAHAM BIGGS Wolverhampton Wanderers. In his first season Hartlepool, Falkirk and St Mirren WALSALL he led the club to the Premier League after a before he started his coaching AUEFA Alicence holder, Graham six-year absence, achieving promotion with career at Dumbarton in his native was appointed Walsall’s academy four matches remaining and being confirmed Scotland. He inititally served the manager in November 2016. He as champions with two games to spare. club as assistant manager but he first joined the club as an academy coach in 2000 and has also held the In recognition of this achievement, he was also enjoyed aspell as caretaker manager of the first team. positions of centre of excellence voted LMA Championship Manager of the manager and head of academy Year. And after just his second month leading In 2014 he moved to Heart of Midlothian to take charge of the coaching. Wolves in the top division, he was also named club’s U20s. During his time at the club, Biggs Premier League Manager of the Month. It was At the end of 2015 he was appointed has helped develop the likes of Alex the first time that aWolverhampton Wanderers manager of Scottish Championship Nicholls, Will Grigg and Rico Henry, manager had secured the award. side Alloa Athletic, but he was unable among many others. 3 MARCH 2019 www.elitesoccercoaching.net INPARTNERSHIPWITH WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS Overview is to develop specific offensive KEY To put it simply, this is a movements, or for the players Ball Nuno Espírito Santo movement finishing session, but as it to practise more freely and Player movement Team finishing unfolds and progresses it show us their own actions and Dribble becomes so much more than their own solutions. SET-UP that. It allows us to devote time AREA to all of the players –practising What do Iget the players to Half apitch do? EQUIPMENT and repeating specific actions Balls, bibs, cones, 4mannequins, that will be asked of them in a We get players to run the 6 inflatable mannequins, 2full size match situation. following two drills. For the goals We can adjust how we use order of play, see the box below. NUMBER OF PLAYERS this session, as not only can Up to 18 players +2goalkeepers it be used to work on specific ORDER OF PLAY –MAIN DRILLS SESSION TIME Blue team –pattern A Combination play movements, combinations and Blue team –pattern B & Crossing drill: 12mins relationships within the team, Red team –pattern A Progressions: 18mins but it can also be used on amore Red team –pattern B 10v8 game: 20mins relaxed training day in order to Repeat all &repeat again give some more simple training time.
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