Mark Bowen

Coaching Sessions

Defending 1v1 and against overloads

Out of Possession

This training session is aimed at educating defenders in the skillsets, communication ability and decision making needed when they are goal-side of the ball and defending in either a 1v1 scenario or in an overload situation.

Defending crosses

Defending

Use this session to develop the decision making and positional awareness of defenders when faced with a variety of dangerous balls crossed into the penalty area.

Biography

A defender who played for Spurs, Norwich City and West Ham United, Mark Bowen began his coaching career with the Wales national side, as a member of Mark Hughes’s back room team.

He subsequently served as Steve Bruce’s assistant manager at both Crystal Palace and Birmingham City, earning promotion to the Premier League with the latter.

He teamed up with Hughes again as assistant manager at Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Fulham, QPR, Stoke City and Southampton. He also enjoyed one game as caretaker manager of QPR for the club’s 2012 Premier League fixture with Manchester United.

He was most recently the manager of EFL Championship side Reading, a club he had previously served as its sporting director.

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