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Wide Play

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Jody Caudwell

The game model

The session is an example of our individualised program. It illustrates how we bring to life a player’s individual development plan and h...

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Ian Dawes

Playing through the mid third from the full-back

This session is delivered to give my team ideas, principles and an understanding of how to play through the mid third and enter the final...

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Neill Collins

Unlocking the wing backs

This session is designed to teach teams to utilise the wing backs in build-up play and attack.

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James Brayne

Utilising the full back in build-up play

This session is designed around using our full backs in build-up play. It is split into two activities, with the first technical practice...

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Stephen Clemence

Attacking patterns against a deep block

This session helps to break down opponents who set up in a deep block against us.

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David Artell

Creating scoring opportunities from wide areas

This session is all about building relationships in wide areas. The players are given guidelines but they also have lots of freedom to br...

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Alex Bruce

Attacking and defending in wide and central areas

In this session two teams work on attacking and defending in wide and central areas of the pitch

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Aaron Callaghan

Efficient finishing

These exercises will help the midfield players to recognise space and encourage them to exploit it when in possession, as well as looking...

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Nigel Pearson

Creating scoring opportunities

This session is about attacking with purpose and quality. It focuses on developing good combination play between attacking players and ...

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James Marrs

Wide play

This session is all about exploiting the opposition in wide areas in order to gain the opportunity to either cross or shoot at goal. Our ...

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Steven Gerrard

Creativity in the final third

This session is designed to help a team’s creativity in the final third. It looks to provide opportunities for the players to create goal-...

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Frankie McAvoy

Wide attacking in a 3-5-2 formation

This session is based on attacking at pace with wing backs in the wide areas of the pitch. It’s all about getting the wing backs into good ...

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Phil Brown

Finishing with realism

This is a shooting and crossing session for a front three, generating shots from the edge of the penalty box, just inside the box and from ...

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Keith Boanas

Wide dribbling and crossing

This session was designed through an analysis of player needs and it helps to create more positivity in attacking areas. It is aimed at ...

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Roy Hodgson

Developing inside forwards

This session is all about working on opportunities for wide players to receive the ball infield – it helps them to understand how and when ...

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Chris Hughton

Wide attacking runs and crosses

This training session encourages players to make attacking runs in wide areas of the pitch leading to crosses into the penalty area.

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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 ...

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Walter Smith

Striker movement from a cross

This session is all about the movement that strikers make when attacking a cross. Defenders take up specific positions when the ball goes ...

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Steve Cotterill

Crossing and finishing

This session is primarily about good quality crossing and finishing, but it also works on players making well-timed runs and improving the ...

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Peter Taylor

Crossing and scoring areas

This session covers crossing areas in the final third of the pitch, and isolates the key need for attackers – to instantly know which areas ...

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Keith Curle

Crossing and finishing with combination play

This session is about how quick and measured combination play – in midfield and wide areas – using short and long passing as well as ...

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Gary Bowyer

Crossing and finishing from wide areas

This session is about crossing and finishing from wide areas, and is one we’ll perform up to three times a week because in Jordan Rhodes ...

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Jonathan Woodgate

Crossing & finishing

This session is aimed at giving attacking players plenty of opportunities to make front post and back post runs and finish with a side-...

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Mark Robins

Attacking crosses in a 4-3-3

This session focuses on attacking crosses when playing in a 4-3-3 formation and looks at what happens when the centre forward drops deep to ...

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Sammy Mcllroy

Crosses from danger zones

This session looks at crossing the ball into the penalty area from advanced positions, also known as danger zones. These areas are crucial ...

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