Fantastic resource for helping my attacking unit develope both individually and collectively.
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Coaching Small-Sided Games
An in-depth approach to small-sided games — checked and provided by five elite coaches.
"Unlocking the potential of small-sided games."
How do you coach within a small-sided game without stopping the practice constantly? How do you use constraints to manipulate outcomes and serve your game model? This book answers those questions — with a rich bank of sessions, each with a different intention, individual coaching points, progressions, and adaptations.
Coaching Within SSGs
Using Constraints to Manage & Manipulate Outcomes
The book develops a deep understanding of how to coach within a small-sided game without stopping the practice constantly — using constraints intelligently to shape player behaviour and align outcomes with the game model.
Session Bank
Many Different Games — Many Different Intentions
A rich collection of small-sided games, each with a different desired outcome paired with specific individual coaching points — ensuring the information players receive is always relevant and purposeful to the session in question.
Elite-Checked Detail
Progressions, Adaptations & Elite-Level Coaching Detail
Every session includes progressions and adaptations so coaches arrive on the grass fully prepared — all sessions checked and provided by five different elite coaches, ensuring a fantastic level of detail throughout.
Who it's for: Coaches who want to get more from their SSG sessions · Those who want to align small-sided games to their game model · Coaches working with players aged 12 and above
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Overall rating: 4.7 / 5 from 186 reviews.
Fantastic resource for helping my attacking unit develope both individually and collectively.
Jorge N. 5/5 Verified
Recommendation: I highly recommend this book for candidates UEFA C football coaches, regardless of experience level. Developing Effective Small Sided Games is an excellent book that provides coaches with a comprehensive guide to planning and implementing effective small-sided games (SSGs). The book covers a wide range of topics, including: The benefits of SSGs How to design SSGs to meet specific learning objectives How to progress SSGs to make them more challenging How to use SSGs to develop different technical, tactical, physical, and psychological skills How to manage SSGs to ensure that they are safe and enjoyable for all players The book is written in a clear and concise style, and it is packed with practical advice and examples. It is also well-organized and easy to navigate. One of the things that I liked most about the book is that it takes a holistic approach to SSGs. The author does not just provide coaches with a list of SSGs to run. Instead, he helps coaches to understand the purpose of SSGs and how to design them to meet specific learning objectives. This makes the book valuable for coaches of all experience levels, from beginners to seasoned professionals.
Callum Q. 5/5 Verified
Excellent Book 🔥🔥🔥
Ivan O. 5/5
Great book with excellent content explaining the periodisation breakdown for session planning. Highly recommended among all the books The Football Coach has in its library.
Carlos N. 5/5 Verified
Very good book
Oisin E. 5/5 Verified
Developing effective Small sided games was something I wanted to know more about. This helped me gain that
Neil E. 5/5 Verified
Great content and good value withnlime 200+ sessions
Dave N. 5/5
A Brilliant book for any coach. Not only did it provide me with loads of games to play with my teams but provided me with more knowledge of how to coach SSG
Will W. 5/5
Class for a new coach very understanding aswell.
Dan M. 5/5
I Loved the detail, sorry i can't rotate image ?
Dominic B. 5/5
Great content and good value withnlime 200+ sessions
Sarah E. 5/5
I waited for the book a loooong time.
Josh L. 3/5 Verified
Very helpful book
Ivan G. 5/5 Verified
👍🏻
Joel P. 4/5 Verified
The coaching pack is great & very helpful with our team sessions. However I am yet to receive the notebook which I ordered at the same time as the digital books. Can someone help with this ?
Craig P. 5/5 Verified
An elite bundle. Best value I’ve experienced for the options
Jason V. 5/5 Verified
information us great my only problem is I always have to get ebooks cause you guys won't send me the books to the usa
Aaron A. 4/5 Verified
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Henry H. 5/5 Verified
I want to that ınclude physical values.
Kieran T. 3/5 Verified
The best youth coaching book I've read for probably a few years now. Really educated read around SSGs
Alan T. 5/5 Verified
Great read. Breaks the session down well. Good for ideas and plans .
Andy S. 5/5 Verified
Thank you for sending this, it's a great read
Tom T. 5/5 Verified
Love it
Paul W. 5/5 Verified
Magnificent
Tony A. 5/5 Verified
I never got my B license package
Will W. 5/5 Verified
Really helped me develop a game model
Roman S. 4/5 Verified
Instant delivery and amazing,top class content... Best books in market.
Edgar F. 5/5 Verified
Only just started reading the book but so far so good!
Finn L. 4/5 Verified
I'm new to coaching grassroots football and the content is helping me a lot when planning training sessions.
Louis F. 3/5 Verified
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Sam W. 5/5 Verified
Really well explained 👏
Stuart T. 5/5 Verified
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Kai L. 5/5 Verified
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Stefan S. 5/5 Verified
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Jakub P. 5/5 Verified
I used this to get through my B License, it was a tool that helped for sure
Alfie C. 3/5 Verified
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Christophe M. 5/5 Verified
Great read
Niall M. 4/5 Verified
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Owen E. 4/5 Verified
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