I’m gonna launch a new series, where I’ll take a look at each of the Swedish Allsvenskan teams, starting with Östersunds FK. Who are the core players, who are the best youngsters, who are the most valuable players, the best performers and who has worn the team’s shirt the most? Have a close look and I…
This time I will show two exercises that I often use in my own sessions. Both are good exercises and will focus on the topic “transitional play”, both when going from attack to defence, and the other way around from defence to attack. Both these two games have a focus on the switch from attack…
This season’s Champions League was the first edition to ever feature Red Bull Salzburg (RBS). The Austrian Bundesliga winners had qualified directly to the group stages where they were set up against KRC Genk, Napoli, and Liverpool. The outcome of these fixtures and the resulting 3rd place finish might have been foreseen even before the…
July 2017, rumors swirled that Barcelona were considering bidding 100 million euros for Italian superstar Marco Verratti. Los Blaugrana saw Verratti as Andrés Iniesta’s natural heir. “Is he your successor?” Asked Blaise Matuidi Iniesta after the French club defeated the Catalonians by 4-0 in the knockout match of the Champions League. “Yes, I think so,”…
The above free scout report is made by one of our scout interns, Jeffrey Chau, Jeffrey is located in Melbourne, Australia, from where he as per now is watching youth national teams on video, as well as following our scout intern program online. All scout reports made by our scouts and our scout interns, is…
My second blog post about the theme “transitional play” builds on the first presentation. This blog post starts with a passing exercise with a lot of movement and one of the focus points will be awareness. It’s extremely important overall, not just when talking transitional play, to always scan the area around you as a…
”In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.” – Johan Cruyff Coming into the 2019-20 season The International Football Association Board (IFAB) had approved several amendments and clarifications to the Laws of the Game with a series of changes; both major and smaller. For me, the rule change…