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Sam Allardyce

Coaching Sessions

Counter-attacking with speed

In Possession

This session is designed to improve a team’s threat when counter-attacking and it’s all about gaining an advantage by promoting a positive attitude when winning the ball back.

Overloads in attacking play

Attacking

Breaking down and dominating the opposition backline is essential if a team is going create genuine goalscoring chances in games.

Penalty box precision

Attacking

A pure technical session that works on finishing and movement. It helps players become accustomed to attacking the goal from different angles, which makes it game realistic.

Diagonal passing

In Possession

This session is about changing the direction of play, including in counter-attacking, in order to create space, and to spread the opposition’s shape

The session looks at the core ideal of defending the box, and with it, the goal. It uses 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3 systems working in a unit, highlights crosses into the box and works on phase of play against attacking formations.

Physical and technical drill

Fitness & Conditioning

This is a high intensity football-specific conditioning drill, designed to challenge players both technically and physically.

Biography

Widely acknowledged within the game to be one of the most progressive and forward-thinking managers, Allardyce started his coaching career in 1991 at League of Ireland side Limerick. He then enjoyed two-year spells in charge of Blackpool and Notts County, where he won the Division Three title in 1998.

In 1999 he was appointed manager of Bolton Wanderers, the club he had first joined as a youth player, and under Allardyce’s stewardship the Trotters were promoted to the top flight in just his second season. Bolton remained in the Premier League throughout his reign, finishing runners-up in the 2004 Carling Cup and enjoying European competition for the first time in the club’s history.

After a spell in charge at Newcastle United, Allardyce joined Blackburn Rovers and guided the club to Premier League safety. His next challenge took him to West Ham and he had an immediate impact in his first season at Upton Park, winning the Championship play-off final in 2012 and leading the club into the Premier League.

He joined Sunderland in 2015 and subsequently he has enjoyed spells in charge of the England national team, Crystal Palace and Everton. He was appointed manager of West Brom in December 2020.

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