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New Book

Coaching Combination Play - From Build Up to Finish

Fellow Coach,

Learn how to "Coach Combination Play" with Practical Examples of How to Play from the Keeper, through Defence, Midfield and Attack

Every tactic and practice in this book has been fully tried and tested at professional academy level with 40 tactical game situations and 66 practices for you to use when training your team.

We present a commitment to “playing out” from the keeper and advancing with good possession using coordinated movement patterns through the 4 phases of play (Build Up, Consolidation, Incision and Finishing phases) including:

Basic Shape & Movement Patterns
Team Shape & Rotations When Playing out from the Back
The Role of the GK When Building Up Play
Combinations in Wide Areas
Key Attacking Runs & Combinations
Attacking Combinations to Finish

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Learn to "Coach Combination Play" with Practical Examples of How to Play from the Keeper, through Defence, Midfield and Attack

160 Pages
FULLCOLOUR Print
40 Game Situations
66 Practices
U12-18+ Level

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Tag Lamche, a UEFA A Licence (part 1) coach and a specialist in vision and awareness (perceptual and cognitive skills) shows you how to play ‘’From Build Up to Finish’’, providing numerous practical examples of combination play from the keeper, through defence, midfield and attack to create goal scoring opportunities.

As well as being structured, it is important to present players with a rich variety of options or tactical tools they can explore. In this way you empower players to make their own decisions - individually and collectively - as well as encouraging them to use their own creativity and natural attributes to best apply these methods into practice.

There are detailed chapters to outline the 4 phases of play and additional chapters for Supplementary Technical Training and Set Pieces.

40 Game Situations analysed including:

Midfield Rotation: Coordinated Movement Patterns
Playing Out from the Back
Creating Space to Play Through Pressure
Creating Scoring Opportunities
Key Attacking Runs to Finish

66 Practices including:

Exploring “Opening Up” to Receive & One-Touch Passing
Rotation of the Midfield 3 in a Pass & Move Practice
Exploring the Third Man Run & the Classic One-Two Combination
Playing Through the Thirds with Two-Way Pressure in a Zonal Possession Game
Switching Play to Create Goal Chances in a Small Sided Game

Meet the Coach

Tag Lamche

4 years coaching experience at a professional Football academy in the UK (Oxford United), Specialist visual skills Football coach, Specialist coach and Consultant to the British Olympic Association (2007-2010), Head of Sensory-Motor Skills BOA Elite Performance Programme and Playmaker workshop leader/perceptual skills coach.

UEFA A Coaching Licence (part 1)
UEFA B Coaching Licence
M.PHIL DEGREE IN SPORTS COACHING (EDUCATION) Master of Philosophy Post-Graduate Research Degree from Birmingham University (UK). The research focused on visual and cognitive skills in football.