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Elite Soccer gives subscribers exclusive insight into the training ground practices of the world’s best coaches. Published in partnership with the League Managers Association, we offer unparalleled access to the leading lights in the English leagues, as well as a host of international managers. Every month, we bring you a new selection of sessions to enjoy, written by the coaches themselves. There are no observed sessions and no sessions “in the style of”, just first-hand advice delivered direct to you from the coach.

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Ralph Hasenhüttl

Using the goalkeeper in build-up play

This session is designed to incorporate the goalkeeper in the build-up phase of possession, moving from an unopposed passing drill to opposed end-zone games, and finishing with an 11v11.

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Jesse Marsch

Pressing principles

When we press, we need to think not just about winning the ball but about how to turn it into chances and ultimately into goals.

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Andoni Iraola

Intensive boxes drill with goals

The session is about keeping possession of the ball in small spaces.

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Ange Postecoglou

Penetrating the final third

This session is all about penetration and it is focused on movement off the ball and on passing to penetrate. It begins with a passing drill and this lays the foundations for our positional play and ...

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Pep Guardiola

Creating and finishing

This session is all about creating and finishing from a variety of distances and positions in and around the box. The majority of chances created will be from crosses but scoring opportunities also ...

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Mikel Arteta

Key attacking and defending concepts in game scenarios

This session was run during the international break and it had as its main target the refreshing of ...

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Sir Alex Ferguson

My philosophy

My key football philosophy has always been to make sure my teams keep hold of the ball. The use of ...

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Mauricio Pochettino

Pressing initiation

This session coaches players on understanding defensive pressing. It’s important to practise the key elements to identify how, when and ...

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Roberto Martinez

Compact team movement

This session is about movement of the team in attack and defence to ensure we remain compact with good distances between players. It also ...

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José Mourinho

Defensive organisation

This exclusive session from José Mourinho is about defensive organisation, and speciﬁcally two points: depth control and double marking.

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Antonio Conte

Back three tactics

Give players the opportunity to defend the box as a three, and move the ball forward, either by playing through the midfielders, passing ...

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Jürgen Klopp

Counter-pressing as an offensive weapon

This session is about the creation and application of the counter-pressing moment as an offensive weapon. It looks at recovering possession ...

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Eddie Howe

Breaking lines

Getting players comfortable when both in and out of possession has been central to my coaching philosophy. I have seen players making huge ...

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Manuel Pellegrini

Deadly transitions

This session examines how we condition a player technically, tactically, physiologically and psychologically when attacking and defending ...

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Arsène Wenger

Arsène Wenger is one of the most successful managers in the game and has twice been a winner of the LMA manager of the Year award. In a 22-...

José Mourinho

Here is a man who ascended from a coaching role in schools football to the status of arguably the world’s most recognisable football ...

Jürgen Klopp

Klopp arrived at Liverpool with a track record of managerial success and a reputation as one of the most forward-thinking coaches in the ...

Mikel Arteta

After beginning his playing career with Barcelona, Arteta went onto represent PSG before arriving in British football in 2002 when he ...

Pep Guardiola

In his debut season as manager, he guided Barcelona to the treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League, becoming the ...

In Possession

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Dmitri Lavrinovic

Create and score

The emphasis for this session is on exploring different movements and rotations to create overloads and finishing opportunities. It’s a ...

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Christophe Berra

Tactical positional play

This session focuses on our main principles in possession: positioning with support, width, in between, and depth within a team structure. W...

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Carlos Corberán

Breaking the press

This session is about developing a team to build play successfully against a variety of pressing strategies, looking at goal kicks and open ...

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Philippe Clement

Finding space behind opponents' defence

During this session, we’re looking for coordinated, opposite runs between players to create the space behind the defence without being ...

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Out of Possession

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Leam Richardson

Counter-pressing with attacking transitions

This session has many individual/unit and team actions in the practices, with a clear understanding of how to exploit defensive ...

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Tony Caig

Shot-stopping

This is a major part of the goalkeeper’s on-pitch diet. There are elements of technicality within the practice but it quickly grows into ...

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Paul Robinson

Crossing, finishing and defending

The balls start from the central area of the exercise with the coach. Players who are working start in the centre, alongside the coach, ...

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Dave Challinor

Pressing and transition

This session really brings everything that my teams do. It’s the first one I do when I go into any club, because it just sets the tone: ...

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Transitions

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Tom Williams

Crisis transition

This session deals with a crisis transition where a condensed space is broken, ie a press into a large space where players are required to ...

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Mike Dodds

Creating transition moments

This session is about the creation of transition both in and out of possession for individuals, units and both teams.

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Marcos Abad

Flow the risk

This is a goal kick session leading on to the transition between attack and defence; it moves from some specific goalkeeping drills to a ...

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Kolo Toure

Counter-pressing

When you counter-press, you allow yourself to win the ball back and play as quick as possible forward to create a goal opportunity, or you ...

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Carlos Carvalhal

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Leadership & Management

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Sarah Lowdon

Sarah Lowdon: All she's learned

The youngest female to achieve the US Soccer Pro License, Sarah Lowdon’s journey from the Northeast of England to the top of the National W...

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Christophe Berra

Christophe Berra: From player to coach

As a player, Christophe Berra represented Scotland 41 times and spent his domestic career in Scotland and England, notably captaining his ...

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Carrie Dunn

Sian Osmond: The coaching craft

Rugby Borough Women’s Sian Osmond talks to Carrie Dunn about working across the men’s and women’s game as well as across age groups, and ...

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Ben Bartlett

Spotlight on: Dave Challinor

Stockport County’s Dave Challinor has achieved seven promotions across four clubs over the course of a 14-year managerial career. the ...

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