In my last blog post, I wrote about the importance of positioning yourself at angles to create better conditions for yourself and your teammates. In this edition, I have focused on a trend that has been widely used in recent years and still is developing. Namely, passing between the lines / breaking the lines. As…
As a football coach I want to spend as much time as possible on the pitch with my players. Working on their technical skills, the tactical aspects of the game, talk with individual players and work on improving some details in their development. But I have also realized, that to be able to reach the…
This weeks free scout report is made by one of our scout interns, Søren Nielsen, who have been an intern with us for more than 10 months. Søren is located in Copenhagen – Denmark, from where he covers senior and youth games live and follow our scout intern program online. Through the last 10 months…
In the past week our scouts and our scout interns, watched 87 youth national team games. The scouts focused on the U21-U19 and U17 youth national teams from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Armenia. In the next 8 weeks, we will have a special focus on these youth national teams, for several reasons, but…
Talent development from the perspective of a young mind In the world of football, early specializing and early selection have been debated for a long time. The meaning about this topic is many, and the direction from the Danish FA, Dansk Boldspil-Union (DBU), is clear – specializing as late as possible. Some of the arguments…
Great and talented youth players, finding their way in to clubs first team, as many as possible. All with as high level and potential as possible and with the motivation and drive to succeed, to take the team, the club and themselves to an higher level, than seen before. That is the dream, for many…
19 Youth National Team Games – Covered This week, our scouts and our scout interns, covered 19 Youth National Team, as you can see in the above screenshot, the games in focus, where games from the U20 world cup played in May and June 2019, as well U19 Youth National Team games played in the…
Phase 2 Scout Template – Grade 1-5 This weeks free scout report is made by one of our scout interns, Jeff I Jessen, who have been an intern with us for more than 10 months. Jeff is located in Barcelona, Spain, from where he covers senior and youth games live and follow our scout intern…
The Inverted Wingbacks is not a new concept in football, but is not used very often. Some of the managers who actually have used it, within the last couple of years are; Pep Guardiola at Manchester City & Julian Nagelsmann at Leipzig – two wellknown managers with a great tactical mindset (after my opinion). The…
Technical-Tactical session (TE-TA), I like my teams to play attractive and offensive football and today i will show you one of TE-TA trainings which i practice. This type of training i use very often, with the warm up session I prepare the players for main part. As you will see, the ball is represented in…