Former NFL player Jason Brown is a recruiter and college football coach. Coach Brown became widely known as the no-nonsense coach on Seasons 3 and 4 of Netflix's smash hit Last Chance U. He currently resides in San Diego, CA with his best friend, Stogie.
Coach Brown is 1 of 1. A total original. Watching him on Last Chance U was the most interesting thing on TV since The Sopranos. He's the Tony Soprano of football. -- Michael Rapaport, Actor/Comedian
JB was the first QB I coached at Compton College. Jason's father came to me to make sure I would look after him and I took that task on head first and with honor. Jason not only became my first All-American QB, he went on and did everything he said he would. This book epitomizes who he is: straightforward, driven, emotional, and 100% invested in the WIN. -- Coach Cornell Ward, Former Head Coach, Compton Community College
I did not have a single college scholarship offer coming out of high school. Jason Brown saw potential in me when no one else did. He helped teach and mold me into a future NFL QB. -- Brad Sorensen, Quarterback, San Diego Chargers, Tennessee Titans, Minnesota Vikings
Jason and I have known each other for twenty years. I coached against Jason while he was a player and together on the same staff. The general public does not know how caring and committed he is to the well-being of his players. Many outside of his circle fail to ascertain this quality in him but once you get to know JB, you will appreciate Jason Brown. -- Marguet Miller, Head Football Coach, West Los Angeles College
To most NFL fans, Dick LeBeau is known as a football lifer, Pro Football Hall of Fame member, and mastermind behind the revolutionary zone blitz defense. But to Pittsburgh Steelers fans, LeBeau is the beloved defensive coaching genius who helped lead the Steelers to their last two championships - Super Bowl XL in 2005 and Super Bowl XLIII in 2008 - crafting a devastating 3-4 defensive scheme that came to define a treasured era of football in Pittsburgh.
In Legendary, LeBeau along with veteran Steelers' scribes Scott Brown and George Von Benko will revisit that unforgettably dominant 2008 defensive unit, one of the most feared and successful in the modern NFL landscape. A deep dive into each game of the 2007-2008 championship season, with added perspective of how that Blitzburgh defense stacks up against the other great contemporary defenses, LeBeau also intersperses revelations about the 2008 Steelers with anecdotes from his nearly 60 years in the NFL as both a star player and groundbreaking coach who spanned decades of football innovation.
This fond look back at the latest golden era for the Steelers also includes recollections from the legends on defense who helped bring LeBeau's ground-breaking vision to life, from Hall of Fame safety Troy Polamalu to 2008 NFL Defensive Player of the Year James Harrison to unheralded but essential linebacker James Farrior, and many more who count LeBeau as one of the most admired and brilliant coaches in league history.
This book gives you a rare opportunity to use Pep Guardiola's Practices (attacking combinations and attacking positional patterns of play) and learn from one of the best coaches in the history of football.
The 88 Attacking Combinations and Attacking Positional Patterns of Play included are taken direct from Pep Guardiola's training sessions at Manchester City, Bayern Munich and FC Barcelona.
This is your chance to practice and apply Pep Guardiola's exact attacking combinations and patterns of play direct from his training sessions, getting your team to reproduce his magnificent style of play.
Find out why Pep Guardiola marks out zones on the training pitch and how he uses them to practice his unique positional patterns of play, maximise space, disorganise the opposition and move the ball into dangerous attacking areas (Half Spaces).
PEP GUARDIOLA PRACTICE TOPICS INCLUDED
PEP GUARDIOLA PRACTICE EXAMPLES
This book is a comprehensive resource for coaching the 3-5-2 formation at all levels. The level of detail and tactical solutions included will help you emulate how top coaches, such as Antonio Conte (Inter) and Nuno Esp rito Santo (Wolverhampton Wanderers), use the 3-5-2 to great success.
This book goes into great detail to show the movement of all players within the 3-5-2 system of play in various tactical situations and against different formations, in the attacking and defensive phase.
This will enable you to optimise your team's tactical awareness and performance.
Tactical solutions are provided for all game situations, in relation to how to counteract the opponent's positioning, organisation and decision making.
This book will teach you to coordinate and solve specific game situations in a flexible way with many different options and tactical solutions.
As a coach, you can train these patterns of play repetitively, so that the players' reading of the game becomes automatic and the team is quickly able to recognise and find the best solutions to solve every conceivable tactical situation.
This book includes:
Renato Montagnolo has a UEFA 'B' Coaching Licence and a Patentino Match Analyst Licence.
He has been working as a First Team Assistant Manager and Match Analyst for the past few years in Serie C in Italy.
With experience of writing books and articles, speaking and teaching, Renato is a respected football tactics expert.
This book provides a tactical analysis of Pep Guardiola's 4-3-3 Attacking Tactics (56 Tactical Situations) for you the coach to learn from one of the best coaches in the world.
Athanasios Terzis is a UEFA 'A' Licence Coach and has used this analysis to produce 12 Full Training Sessions (70 Practices and Variations). You can use these ready-made sessions to practice Pep Guardiola's attacking tactics and implement them into your training sessions.
The aim of the book is to use the innovative attacking tactics of Pep Guardiola to create chances and score goals, with variations depending on the opposition players' positioning and reactions within their formation (4-4-2, 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3 and teams with a back 5).
Learn to Coach Pep Guardiola's Innovative Attacking Tactics - to Create Chances and Score Goals - with 12 Full Sessions (70 Practices & Variations) based on 12 Tactical Situations from Manchester City's 4-3-3
Tactical Analysis and Session Topic Examples:
Practice Examples:
Pep Guardiola's Manchester City used these attacking tactics to become the Best Ever Premier League Team during the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 title winning seasons, breaking the following records:
This book provides you with a rare and great opportunity to use 102 Jürgen Klopp Practices and learn from one of the best coaches in world football.
Practice and apply Jürgen Klopp's exact training methods from his Liverpool training sessions, so your team can reproduce his highly successful all-action pressing and attacking style of play.
Find out how Jürgen Klopp prepares his players physically, improves their speed, agility and power, fast passing combinations, high intensity pressing, and extremely effective counter-pressing style.
The 102 Practices included in this book are all taken directly from Klopp's training sessions with Liverpool F.C. between 2017 and 2022.
102 Practices Included:
Jürgen Klopp Practice Examples:
Volume 2 Coming Soon including... Attacking Patterns of Play, Attacking Combination Play, Finishing Practices, Transition Games, and Small Sided Games.
Adam Owen PhD is a high performance expert with 20 years experience at the elite level; International, European club, UEFA Champions League and Europa League.
After his bestselling Football Conditioning: A Modern Scientific Approach book set and in his role as a UEFA Pro & A Licence Educator, coaches commonly ask these key questions:
Adam has provided the answers in this book by using his vast knowledge of applied football science and performance coaching to create his complete methodology to maximise performance.
Dr. Andreas Schlumberger, PhD (Head of Recovery and Performance at Liverpool FC):
Adam provides an outstanding mixture of applied research, practical application and tremendous experience in the world of high-performance football.
Learn how to design training sessions and plan the training week (102 Practices included) to make sure your players are always prepared correctly and able to perform at their maximum on match day.
The Football Periodization to Maximise Performance methodology:
Steve McClaren (Former England Manager and current FIFA Technical Advisor):
This book provides a great coaching resource for all individuals wanting to develop their knowledge of the game.
Adam Owen (PhD, MPhil, BSc HONS)
This incredible book helps coaches improve their training sessions in the most important phases of the modern game - the transition phases. The best teams in recent years (Simeone's Atl tico Madrid, Guardiola's Barcelona & Bayern, Klopp's Dortmund, Mourinho's Real Madrid & Ranieri's Leicester) have been successful largely due to their performance in the transition phases.
This book provides analysis of Simeone, Guardiola, Klopp, Mourinho and Ranieri's tactics. Michail Tsokaktsidis is a UEFA 'A' licence coach and has used this analysis to produce 23 full sessions (98 practices) including transition games, game situations and small sided games. You can use these ready-made sessions to practice these top coaches' tactics and find solutions for every tactical situation in the transition from defence to attack and the transition from attack to defence.
Analysis and Session Topic Examples:
Practice Examples:
Coach Quotes on Transition Play
Diego Simeone
I am always enthusiastic and when I came, I said I wanted to rediscover the essence of the club: An Atl tico team that was always aggressive,
intense, competitive, counter-attacking and fast... I think that's what we've been giving.
Pep Guardiola
I want my players chasing the ball like (dogs chase) dog bones.
'You cannot be brilliant when you disappear when you don't have the ball. It's impossible. Football is a connection between what you have with the ball and without the ball.
J rgen Klopp
The best moment to win the ball is immediately after your team just lost it. The opponent is still looking for orientation where to pass the ball. He will have taken his eyes off the game to make his tackle or interception and he will have expended energy. Both make him vulnerable.
Football is about emotion and speed. It's a transition game.
If you win the ball back high up the pitch and close to the goal, it is only one pass away a really good opportunity most of the time. No playmaker in the world can be as good as a good counter-pressing situation.
Jose Mourinho
What tactical trends do you see at the top level of the game? Transitions have become crucial. When the opponent is organised defensively it is very difficult to score. The moment the opponent loses the ball can be the time to exploit the opportunity of someone being out of position. Similarly when we lose the ball we must react immediately.
Everybody says that set plays win most games but I think it is more about transitions.
Lessons from Legends may be the greatest collection of college football knowledge ever assembled. With over 260 years, 2,100 wins, 95 conference titles, and 13 National Championships of combined coaching experience, any football fan, coach, or player can learn from the wealth of wisdom contained in these pages.
The book features Q&As with 12 Hall of Fame coaches as they discuss their careers, the lessons they learned, and specific features or topics that marked their careers.
In these pages you will learn how:
These lessons and more from Fisher DeBerry Phil Fulmer, Vince Dooley, Frank Girardi, Marino Casem, and Mike Bellotti are featured in the book.
With a foreword by former Oklahoma Sooners coach Bob Stoops, and quotes from Peyton Manning, Troy Aikman, Danny Wuerffel, and Bret Bielema, this book has an unmatched combination of football talent.
Athanasios Terzis is a UEFA 'A' Licence Coach and has produced extensive analysis of Marcelo Bielsa in 9 different tactical situations, supported with 9 full training sessions (35 practices). Athanasios is the author of some of the best-selling Football Coaching books, most notably 'Jurgen Klopp's Attacking and Defending Tactics', 'Coaching the Juventus 3-5-2' and 'FC Barcelona Training Sessions', which won the Italian FA Award for Best Coaching Book in 2014.
The book includes Marcelo Bielsa's tactics (and playing philosophy) for building up play from the back against high pressing teams with a full analysis of his 4-2-3-1, 3-3-3-1 and 3-4-3 formations. Marcelo Bielsa's attacking philosophy includes a mix of short and long passing, moving the ball to the free player through 'link players', creating numerical advantages, dragging opposition players out of position and exploiting the gaps created.
Marcelo Bielsa is a highly respected coach and is famous for his innovative playing style, tactics and formations. He has had a massive influence on football across the world and on other top coaches, such as Pep Guardiola, Mauricio Pochettino, Jorge Sampaoli and Gerardo Martino. The aim of the book is to use the innovative tactics of Marcelo Bielsa to provide a complete guide of how to build up play effectively against high pressing teams.
To successfully build up from the back, the team in possession has to follow four steps:
Step 1: Provide a free passing option for the goalkeeper
Step 2: Move the ball to the target or free player
Step 3: Create a numerical advantage in specific areas of the pitch
Step 4: Take advantage (exploit) the numerical advantage
Each chapter has extensive analysis for a tactical situation based on Marcelo Bielsa's tactics and is then followed by a full session to help all coaches adapt the tactics into training sessions for their team.
Chapter 1: Building Up Play from the Back Against 2 Forwards
Chapter 2: Moving the Ball to the Target Player on the Weak Side
Chapter 3: Building Up Play from the Back Against 1 Forward
Chapter 4: Creating and Exploiting 3 v 2 Situations Near the Sideline
Chapter 5: Attacking Solutions with a 3 v 3 Situation Near the Sideline
Chapter 6: Creating and Exploiting Space in a 4 v 3 (or 4 v 4) Situation Around the Ball Area
Chapter 7: Building Up Play Against Ultra-Offensive Pressing
Pep Guardiola
My admiration for Marcelo Bielsa is huge because he makes the players much, much better.
That is why, for me, he is the best coach in the world. I am looking forward to seeing him in Lille next season. I am pretty sure his influence on their team, their club and their players will be huge - amazing.
Mauricio Pochettino
He is one of the best managers in the world.
This book provides you with a rare and great opportunity to learn the secrets behind the development program at Manchester City's Academy for Pep Guardiola's Methodology and game model.
Darren Bowman (former Manchester City U13, U14, and U15 Coach) has used his incredible experience to provide you with the full Manchester City Academy Program, ideal for all coaches who want to take this unique opportunity to develop players to world leading standards and improve your team's performances.
Coaching players such as Phil Foden (Manchester City), Jadon Sancho (Manchester United), Brahim Diaz (Real Madrid), Cole Palmer (Chelsea), and many more, Darren shows how repeating the same key actions and patterns for hours and hours can develop players capable of playing for a Pep Guardiola team and some of the other best teams in the world.
Practice and apply Manchester City Academy's exact training methods from Darren's training sessions in which the game principles and methodology never changes. This is how Manchester City can produce their unique, highly successful, dominant, and consistent style of play.
The Development Program, Methodology, and the 17 Training Sessions (68 Practices) included in this book are all taken directly from Darren Bowman's Manchester City Academy training sessions.
17 Training Sessions (68 Practices) Topics:
Manchester City Academy Practice Examples:
Tactical Periodization is a proven successful football coaching method. All training is driven by tactical training. It allows you the coach, to improve all other attributes (technical, conditioning and decision making) at the same time, within every single tactical practice.
You will learn how to use periodization to train your players at the correct intensity for each day of the week, making sure they are always prepared tactically, mentally and physically for competitive matches. Your players (and team) will react quicker, be sharper, and make better decisions in all tactical situations.
Tactical Periodization also helps you accelerate your players' understanding of their positional roles and responsibilities in an efficient way, which ultimately improves the team's tactical performance.
Jos Mourinho: It's all planned and researched so we create these training sessions that are harder than a game. It gives us confidence knowing we have trained to a greater intensity.
The Game Model guides the entire training process. Training must model the game through specific practices (specificity) that include all the tactical game principles designed by the coach. You will learn the principle of performance stabilisation, so you can maintain your team's high performance levels throughout a full season.
Jos Mourinho: For me, training means training in specificity, creating practices that allow me to enhance my principles of play. (in Oliveira et al., 2006)
Juan Luis Delgado Bordonau PhD (UEFA PRO Coaching Licence, current ASPIRE Academy Qatar Elite Scouting Coordinator - previously Valencia CF / Villarreal CF Academy Technical Director) and Jos Alberto Mendez Villanueva PhD (Qatar Football Association Head of Fitness & ASPIRE Academy Qatar Head of Physiology) have produced a complete blueprint for Tactical Periodization to provide coaches with the tools to organise the whole football training process - from one specific training practice, to full season planning.
This is your chance to learn the Tactical Periodization method which has been applied by top coaches, with Jos Mourinho being the most influential and successful. Other examples are Vitor Pereira, Leonardo Jardim, Brendan Rodgers, Marco Silva, Nuno Esp rito Santo and Andr Villas-Boas. Many other top coaches (Pep Guardiola among them) have adopted part of these Tactical Periodization principles, building their training method around the development of a game model and its principles, using the tactical dimension to lead their training.
This book includes the background and development of Tactical Periodization, the Methodological Principles, The Game Model (specificity), Tactical Organisation in the 4 Phases of the Game, Analysing the Previous Match Performance and the Next Opponent, Weekly Training Objectives, Training Sessions for a 1 Match Week and Training Sessions for a 2 Match Week.
There are many Tactical Topics and Training Practices including:
Maarten Arts (UEFA A Coaching Licence) has many years of coaching experience at the elite level all around the world and has created a full blueprint of 120 Drills to produce top class goalkeepers.
This training program has proved to create better, all round goalkeepers at every level, from juniors up to top-level international goalkeepers.
This book shows you how to develop goalkeepers with specific drills, but it will also inspire you to create your own drills in the image of this program. Included with each drill, there are detailed coaching points which are essential to develop goalkeepers in the best way.
This book focuses on the fundamental technical skills needed to become a top class goalkeeper and includes chapters Drills with Outfield Players and Goalkeeper Games to show you how to use these skills in situations similar to a match.
Each of the 12 chapters in this book includes 10 Drills on a specific goalkeeping technique or topic:
1. CATCHING
2. FALLING
3. DIVING
4. PUNCHING
5. PARRYING
6. HIGH BALLS
7. ONE V ONE
8. TECHNICAL SKILLS WITH THE FEET
9. FOOTWORK
10. DISTRIBUTION
11. DRILLS WITH OUTFIELD PLAYERS
12. GOALKEEPER GAMES
Maarten Arts
UEFA A Coaching Licence
I wish you all great success in your careers and I hope the drills in this book will help make your goalkeepers TOP Class. - Maarteen Arts
This book provides you with a rare and great opportunity to use 92 Roberto De Zerbi Build Up, Passing Combinations and Attacking Positional Play Practices and find out how he coaches his team to produce his fluid possession-based attacking style with unique build up play patterns to control the ball and dominate opponents.
Referring to the way Roberto De Zerbi coaches his teams to play with innovative build up play tactics, which are included in this book, Pep Guardiola said I think Brighton is playing something unique, special, and he monopolises the ball in a way I haven't seen for a long, long time.
Take your chance to coach your team to bait the press, play out from the back with fast and intricate passing combinations, and create space and overloads high up the pitch. Focus on creativity, movement, and rotations with third man link players to break through pressure, positional interchanges to break down defences, and supporting runs to finish attacks quickly and efficiently.
The 92 Practices included in this book are all taken directly from Roberto De Zerbi's training sessions at Benevento (2), Sassuolo (57), Shakhtar Donetsk (5), and Brighton & Hove Albion (28) between 2018 and 2023.
Build Up, Passing & Attacking Positional Practices included:
Roberto De Zerbi's Practice Examples:
Pay attention to what I'm going to say because I'm pretty convinced I'm right - Roberto De Zerbi is one of the most influential managers in the last 20 years.
Pep Guardiola
Following the hugely popular Volume 1 book, Volume 2 provides you with another rare opportunity to learn from an additional 80 Jürgen Klopp Practices taken directly from Liverpool's Training Sessions, so you can replicate their all-action high tempo attacking and counter-pressing style of play.
During the last few years, Jürgen Klopp has guided Liverpool to their most successful period in decades, winning the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, and League Cup with their highly effective non-stop attacking style.
During the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 Premier League seasons combined (76 matches), Liverpool recorded 62 wins, 10 draws, with only 4 losses, and scored an incredible 174 goals (2.29 per match).
Find out how Jürgen Klopp trains his team's attacking football with high tempo multi-ball attacking combinations and finishing, attacking patterns of play, transition games, and more. Develop your players and improve your team's performance using practices from the highest level.
The 80 Practices included in this book are all taken directly from Klopp's training sessions with Liverpool F.C. between 2016 and 2022.
80 Practices Included:
Jürgen Klopp Liverpool Practice Examples: