Tom McStravick

Coaching Sessions

Building an attack from the back

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This session is all about building the attack from the goalkeeper and breaking through a high press. In this activity we see the goalkeeper as an extra player and we encourage centre backs to receive the ball and play forwards.

Biography

The holder of a UEFA A Licence, Tom McStravick is currently working at Leeds United, coaching within the club’s youth development phase. He is also the founder of the Playing For The Future Group, which was established in 2009, and he is academy director of the Playing For The Future Academy, which is a leading independent youth football academy based in Northern Ireland. He has developed a successful long term partnership with Ulster University to develop the Playing For The Future group of projects, which include an academy programme, the ABP Craigavon Cup and the Belfast Youth Cup. He has experience in presenting and coaching around the world, including delivering coach education at Legia Warsaw in Poland. He has also been a UK representative at the G20 Summit in Nice, France, and a delegate at the One Young World Summit in Pittsburgh, USA.

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Tom McStravick

Coaching Sessions

Building an attack from the back

Biography

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