Neil Ardley

Coaching Sessions

Defending principles in units

Defending

This session is about working with team mates to stop opposition teams playing beyond you, by simple balance and communication that can be taken into a bigger realistic practice.

Transitions with an overload

In Possession

This session is about managing moments in games when you’re on top or under pressure, and is designed to show that, if your transitions are good, you have a chance.

Biography

Neal Ardley will always be associated with AFC Wimbledon rescuing the reformed club from relegation back to non-League in 2012-13, leading them to promotion in 2016, then keeping them in the third tier until he departed in 2018. Ardley had played more than 250 games for the original Wimbledon during a playing career which also took in Watford, Cardiff and Millwall. He began his coaching career as manager of Cardiff City’s academy. After Wimbledon he took over at Notts County taking them to the Conference play-off final in 2020.

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Neil Ardley

Coaching Sessions

Defending principles in units

Transitions with an overload

Biography

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