www.elitesoccercoaching.net APRIL 2018 SOCCER Exclusive Training practices from top professional managers STOKE CITY PAUL LAMBERT CREATING ATTACKING INPARTNERSHIPWITH OVERLOADS SUNDERLAND LINCOLN CITY BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION BIRMINGHAM CITY LMA AMBASSADOR CHRIS DANNY MIKEY STEVE DAVID COLEMAN COWLEY HARRIS SPOONER PLEAT Counter- Counter- Finishingwith Attacking Developing attacking pressing transition 1v1 &2v2 wingplay EXTRA-TIME FEATURE THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE PERFECT PENALTY INPARTNERSHIPWITH Elite Soccerispublishedby ISSUE 93/APRIL 2018: FROM THE CHAIRMAN Green Star Media Ltd Innovative training ground Meadow View, Tannery Lane prp actices from the best 4 Guildford, Surrey, PAUL GU5 0AB, UK coaches in British football LAMBERTT Tel: +44 (0) 1483 892 894 STOKECITY Fax: +44 (0) 1483 894 148 Creatingg Email: attackingng elitesoccer@ Dear Coach, greenstarmedia.net overloadsds Welcome to the April 2018 issue of Elite Soccer, the magazine Editor: Chris Hunt that delights in keeping you up-to-date with all the coaching Contributing Editor: knowledge and training activities you’ll need each month. Mark Farthing Consultant Coach: We kick off this month’s issue with aPremier League session 7 Dave Clarke (Editor, from Stoke City manager, Paul Lambert. It’s all about CHRIS Soccer Coach Weekly) COCOLEMANL creating overloads when attacking and it encourages teams Illustrator: SSUNDERLANDU Richard Palmer to be creative in their passing, even when space is tight. CCounto er- Design: We also are pleased to have acounter-attacking session AT Graphics attaacking Customer Services: from Sunderland boss, Chris Coleman. It is apractice that Duncan Heard creates numerous situations for your players to work on Managing Director: quick attacks, but it also offers defenders the opportunity to Andrew Griffiths develop their approach to stopping counter-attacks too. 10 Photos: Action Images DANNY Counter-pressing is another important topic of focus in this COWLEY issue and Lincoln City manager, Danny Cowley, has written LINCOLNCITY a session that looks at the transition from attack to defence. Counter-r- Publishedinpartnershipwith: It is apractice that shows your players the importance pressingg of winning the ball back as soon as possession is lost. This month we have afinishing session from Mikey Harris, League Managers coach of Brighton and Hove Albion’s U18s. His activities 13 Association work on improving player sharpness, in and around the MIKEY St George’s Park penalty area. We also have an attacking session from Steve HARRIS National Football Centre, BRIGHTON& Newborough Road, Spooner, manager of Birmingham City’s U18s. This is tailoreded HOVEALBION Needwood, to encouraging forward thinking and forward passing. Burton upon Trent, Finishing DE13 9PD Finally, from the Elite Soccer archives, we’re delighted to withwi transition Tel: +44 (0)1283 576350 present aclassic session on wing play from former Tottenhaamm Email:[email protected] Hotspur manager and director of football, David Pleat. Chairman: Howard Wilkinson We hope that you find these six activities of use to you 16 Chief Executive: in your work on the training ground in the months STEVE Richard Bevan SPOONERER ahead, and we look forward to offering you another BIRMINGHAMAM CITY This publication is protected selection of top coaching sessions next month. by national and international Attackingking copyright laws. Elite Soccer will take legal action 1v1 &&22v2 against any individuals or organisations found to be infringing our rights, and will make that action public. Elite Soccer members who Howard Wilkinson,LMAChairman 19 have purchased this report DAVID may circulate electronic or hard copies to members of PLEAT LLMAAMBASSADOR their own club or school, provided this is done without commercial gain. However, DDeveloping no part or whole of this report wing play may be circulated elsewhere EliteSoccer isamonthlypublicationfor or displayed on any website professional, semi-professionalandaspiring or distributed commercially except under licence from the soccer coachesandisavailablebysubscriptiononly. copyright owners. 22 EXTRA-TIME © Green Star Media Ltd. All To subscribe email [email protected] rights reserved …with sport psychologist or call on +44(0)1483892894 Lee Richardson 2 APRIL 2017 www.elitesoccercoaching.net INPARTNERSHIPWITH ELITE SOCCER APRIL 2018 MANAGER PROFILES Here are the six managers and coaches we’re delighted to welcome into this issue of Elite Soccer CHRIS COLEMAN appointed manager of Salisbury PAUL LAMBERT SUNDERLAND City in the Conference Premier, STOKE CITY Chris Coleman is currently the making him the youngest full-time manager in English football at In aplaying career that included lengthy manager of Championship side the time. He had been Salisbury’s spells with St Mirren, Motherwell and Celtic, Sunderland. He previously spent five assistant manager since he was Paul Lambert won just about every domestic seasons as manager of Wales and 23 and had helped the club to two honour in the Scottish game, but the undoubted led the country to the semi-finals of promotions in three seasons. highlight of his time on the pitch was winning the the 2016 European Championship. Champions League with Borussia Dortmund in He first moved into coaching after 1997. He also earned 40 caps for Scotland and ending his playing career at Fulham STEVE SPOONER BIRMINGHAM CITY represented his country at the 1998 World Cup. in October 2002. Staying on at Amuch-travelled pro who started After choosing to qualify for his UEFA Pro Craven Cottage, he was appointed manager at the end of the season, his playing career at Derby License in Germany, Lambert kicked off having spent the tail end of that County, Steve Spooner is lead his coaching career back in Scotland with campaign as caretaker manager. professional development coach Livingston in 2005. He soon moved to the After four years maintaining at Birmingham City Academy fourth tier of English football and led Wycombe Fulham’s position in the Premier and is manager of the U18s. Wanderers to the League Cup semi-finals in League, he enjoyed ashort spell in 2007. After earning ashock home draw with He enjoyed his first experiences of Spain as manager of Real Sociedad. Chelsea in the first leg, the Chairboys were coaching as caretaker manager at He has also served as manager of Burton Albion, before becoming eliminated at Stamford Bridge in the return Championship club Coventry City. game, but it was aremarkable achievement. head of youth development at Building on this form the following season, he Rushden &Diamonds. He also DANNY COWLEY served as Rushden’s first team took Wycombe to the League Two play-offs. LINCOLN CITY coach and helped the club to win Following abrief spell in charge of Colchester Danny Cowley has been manager the Division Three title in 2003. United, he joined Norwich City in 2009 and of League Two side Lincoln City After aspell as centre of excellence immediately turned around the fortunes since 2016 and in his first season manager at his former club, Derby of the Canaries, leading the club to the at the club he won the National County, he moved to Notts County as League One title in his first season. His League title and led the Imps back first team coach in 2004. He joined achievement was recognised when he was into the Football League after a Birmingham City’s academy in 2006. voted LMA League One Manager of the Year. six-year absence. He also guided The following season he took Norwich back them to the FA Cup quarter-finals, to the Premier League after an absence making Lincoln the first non-league DAVID PLEAT LMA AMBASSADOR of six years, finishing runners up in the team to reach that stage of the One of the most respected coaches Championship. This meant that Norwich had competition in over acentury. in British football, Pleat has become the first club since Manchester City in Starting his coaching career in taken charge of ahost of leading 2000 to secure successive promotions back into the Essex Senior Football League sides, including Luton Town, the Premier League. He was again rewarded with Concord, he achieved three Tottenham Hotspur, Sheffield with the divisional Manager of the Year award. promotions in six years and took Wednesday and Leicester City. Despite leading the club through one campaign the club to the National League At Spurs, he created ateam that in the top flight and achieving asuccessful South. He also managed Braintree won much praise for the beautiful mid-table finish for the Canaries, soon after Town to the National League attacking football of players like the end of the 2011-12 season he accepted play-offs before joining Lincoln. Ossie Ardiles, Chris Waddle and the opportunity to manage Aston Villa. In his Glenn Hoddle, and he guided them first season at Villa Park he guided the club MIKEY HARRIS BRIGHTON &HOVE ALBION to athird-place finish in the league to a15th place finish in the Premier League and to the 1987 FA Cup Final. He later and to the semi-finals of the League Cup. Mikey Harris is professional development phase coach at returned to the club as its director of He has subsequently managed Blackburn Brighton, working with the U18s, football, spending most of the 2003- Rovers and Wolverhampton Wanderers in the a role he also performed at 04 season as caretaker manager. Championship, before returning to the Premier Portsmouth for nearly four years. Pleat is also afootball pundit and League as manager of Stoke City in 2018. Previously, at just 28, he was co-commentator on TV and radio. 3 APRIL 2018 www.elitesoccercoaching.net INPARTNERSHIPWITH STOKE CITY Overview regularly, so that players Paul Lambert This training session is all about learn they should always give Creating attacking creating overloads in attacking passing options to their team situations, whether that be mates when in possession. overloads while playing out from the SET-UP back, attacking in wide areas, What do Iget the players to AREA or attacking in the final third.