www.elitesoccercoaching.net FEBRUARY 2019 SOCCER Exclusive Training practices from top professional managers CRYSTAL PALACE ROY HODGSON INPARTNERSHIPWITH ATTACKINGCOMBINATIONS BOLTON WANDERERS SCUNTHORPE UNITED LMA AMBASSADOR ABERDEEN PHIL STUART MARK TONY PARKINSON & McCALL BOWEN DOCHERTY JULIAN DARBY Switching play Defending Switching the Improving the defence to score crosses point of attack EXTRA-TIME INTERVIEW WITH SUNDERLAND BOSS JACK ROSS INPARTNERSHIPWITH EliteSoccerispublishedby ISSUE 103/FEBRUARY 2019: FROM THE CHAIRMAN Green Star Media Ltd Complete training ground MBX124 19 Moorfield Road practices from some of Slyfield Industrial Estate the most respected names Guildford GU1 1RU in professional soccer United Kingdom Email: Dear Coach, 4 elitesoccer@ ROY greenstarmedia.net Welcome to the February issue of Elite Soccermagazine, HODGSON which this month features another five training sessions CRYSTALPALACE Editor: that have been tried and tested by the best of this country’s Chris Hunt Attacking Contributing Editor: professional football coaches. combinations Mark Farthing Kicking off this issueisasession on attacking combinations, Consultant Coach: Dave Clarke (Editor, as used on the Crystal Palace training ground by former Soccer Coach Weekly) England manager Roy Hodgson. It will certainly help your 7 Illustrator: attackers to create space in andaround the penalty area. PHIL Richard Palmer PARKINSON Design: We also have an intensive defending practice written for us by &JULIAN AT Graphics Bolton Wanderers manager Phil Parkinsonandhis first team DARBY Customer Services: coach, Julian Darby. It’s asession that covers all manner of BOLTON WANDERERS Duncan Heard Photography: defensive situations, including how to deal with the threat of Improving Reuters attacking wide players. the defence Stuart McCall has shared asession he uses to show his Scunthorpe United players how and when to switch play to create goal scoring chances. Meanwhile,Aberdeenassistant 11 Publishedinpartnershipwith: manager, Tony Docherty, has written aseries of activities STUART aimed at teaching players how to switch the pointofattack at McCALL pace, particularly when playing against ateam with anarrow SCUNTHORPE League Managers back three and adiamond midfield. Switching Association Mark Bowenhasbeenassistant manager of manyclubs, play to St George’s Park National Football Centre, includingSouthampton, Manchester City, Crystal Palace score Newborough Road, andStoke City. For this issue of Elite Soccer, he has shareda Needwood, Burton upon Trent, session aimed at developing thedecision-making of defenders DE13 9PD when facedwithdangerous balls crossed into the penaltyarea. Tel: +44 (0)1283 576350 Ihope youfindthatthe training sessions in this month’s issue 15 Email:[email protected] MARK Chairman: are of use to you. Elite Soccer will returnnextmonthwithfive BOWEN Howard Wilkinson more fully developed practices to help ease the pressure of LMAAMBASSADOR Chief Executive: your busy coaching week. Richard Bevan Defending crosses This publication is protected by national and international copyright laws. 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All [email protected] …with Sunderland rights reserved To subscribe email manager Jack Ross 2 FEBRUARY 2019 www.elitesoccercoaching.net INPARTNERSHIPWITH ELITE SOCCER FEBRUARY 2019 MANAGER PROFILES Here are the six managers and coaches we’re delighted to welcome into this issue of Elite Soccer PHIL PARKINSON the Champions League qualifiers ROY HODGSON & JULIAN DARBY forthefirst time. He wontheSPL CRYSTAL PALACE BOLTON WANDERERS Manager of the Year Awardin 2013. One of the most experienced coaches in world After ending his playing career at After ashort stint as manager of football, Roy Hodgson is currently the manager Reading in 2003, Phil Parkinson Rangers, he returned to Valley of Crystal Palace, the club where he started as first movedintomanagement with Parade foranotherspellasBradford a youth player in the mid 1960s. Although he ColchesterUnited.Heenjoyed bossin 2016, taking the club to the didn’t make it as aplayer at Palace, by the time success with the U’s, leading them to League One playoff final. He joined he was 23 he had qualified as acoach and he promotion as League One runners Scunthorpe in August2018. took his first position as assistant manager of up in 2006 beforetaking overas non-league Maidstone United, combining his manager of Championship rivals MARK BOWEN duties with aplaying role. Hull City. LMA AMBASSADOR Hodgson’s coaching career started in earnest After astint at Charlton Athletic, he Adefender who played forSpurs, in 1976, when he became manager of Swedish was appointed manager of Bradford Norwich City and West Ham United, side, Halmstad. Spending five years at the club, City and he ledtheclubto the final of Mark Bowenbeganhiscoaching he quickly made aname for himself by winning the League Cup in 2013. In doing so, career with the Walesnationalside, the league title at his first attempt. He went on he became the onlymanager to take as amember of Mark Hughes’s back to repeat the feat three years later. He did even an English fourth-tier league club to room team. better when appointed manager of Malmo in the final of amajor cup competition He subsequentlyserved as Steve 1985, topping the league for five consecutive at Wembley.City finished runnersup Bruce’sassistant manager at both seasons, winning two play-off style Swedish in the final but he oversaw promotion CrystalPalaceand Birmingham City, championships, and two Swedish Cups. via the playoffs in the same season. earning promotion to the Premier Hodgson’s first foray into international To recognise these achievements, League with the latter. he received an LMA Special Merit management came in 1992, when he was HeteamedupwithHughes Award. He was also votedtheLMA’s appointed manager of Switzerland and againasassistantmanager FA Cup Manager of the Year in 2015. transformed the team from unfancied atBlackburn,Manchester He became manager of Bolton in underdogs into contenders. The Swiss hadn’t City,Fulham,QPR,Stokeand the summer of 2016 and helped been to amajor international tournament Southampton. He also enjoyedone the club achieve promotion to the since 1966, but under Hodgson they reached game as caretakermanagerofQPR Championship in his first season. the knockout rounds of the 1994 World Cup and fortheclub’s2012 Premier League qualified for the finals of Euro 96 with ease. Julian Darby made nearly350 fixturewith ManchesterUnited. With his reputation forged in Sweden and appearances forBoltonasaplayer and is currentlythe club’sfirst-team Switzerland, Hodgson became an in demand coach. He has also served as first- TONY DOCHERTY manager and has since travelled around the ABERDEEN team coach at Preston, Nottingham world to coach. In addition to Switzerland, he Forest and Leeds United. Currentlyassistant manager of has managed the national teams of the United Aberdeen in the Scottish Premier Arab Emirates, Finland and England, who he League, Tony Docherty began his took to the finals of one World Cup and two STUART McCALL SCUNTHORPE UNITED coaching career in 2002 at Falkirk, European Championships. He has managed in initiallyas acommunity coach but Italy’s Serie A, with twostints at Inter Milan and Stuart McCall enjoyedhisfirst tasteof management whilestill a later as assistant manager. one at Udinese; he won the Danish Superliga He subsequentlyserved as first- with Copenhagen in 2001; and he has managed player with BradfordCity, the club he represented nearly450 times. team coach at Dundee United, before in the English Premier League with Blackburn being appointed assistant manager Rovers, Liverpool, West Brom, Crystal Palace, First serving as caretakerplayer- manager in 2000, he returned to of Scottish First Division side St and Fulham, taking the latter to the 2010 Bradfordin 2007 as manager after Johnstone and helping the club to Europa League final. aspellatSheffieldUnitedasNeil promotion to the topflight. Highlyrespected by his peers, he was voted Warnock’sassistant. In 2011 he became assistant LMA Manager of the Year in 2010 for his work He subsequentlyjoined Motherwell, manager of BristolCity,before with Fulham. He is also much-valued as a twicefinishing as Scottish Premier moving to Aberdeen in 2013. He has regular adviser on technical matters by FIFA League runnersup. He also took the also worked with Scotland’snational and UEFA. club to the Scottish Cup final and into team under Gordon Strachan. 3 FEBRUARY 2019 www.elitesoccercoaching.net INPARTNERSHIPWITH CRYSTAL PALACE Overview on aregular basis at Crystal KEY Palace, running them, or Ball Roy Hodgson This training session is all movement about developing patterns of variations on them, at least Player Attacking movement attacking play and movement once or twice aweek. Dribble combinations that will