Learn to breakdown modern, compact defenses! Brandon Koons shares his key fundamentals of creating an aggressive, attacking soccer team.

As modern defenses become more sophisticated and difficult to breakdown, it is essential to employ effective attacking methods in order to stay ahead of the competition. Coach Koons explains the key principles of creating a successful attack and then demonstrates how to coach them with your team.

Using a combination of lecture, diagrams, competition and practice footage, Koons outlines how to coach these key attacking principles to the advanced soccer player. You will see how to:

• Create opportunities to break the line of defense by dribbling, passing and shooting.
• Make runs to break apart the defense - stretch, check and threaten.
• Train players functionally to attack defenses.
• Encourage your players to take risks through dribbling and passing to beat defenders.
• Make runs ahead of the ball to create offensive opportunities.

In addition to the drills and games, this DVD features many clear and concise coaching points that you can instantly put into your coaching toolbox and apply to any attacking situation.

53 minutes. 2011.

Win the ball and create more scoring opportunities using these time-tested set pieces!

There are different strategies to use when taking a corner kick or a free kick. In this detailed soccer DVD, Brandon Koons takes you through a variety of ways to use set pieces to your advantage when attacking and defending in the offensive half.

These set pieces will create numerous goal scoring chances for your team. Koons' instruction will help you teach your players to:

• Put pressure on your opponents by overloading an area
• Create space on throw-ins
• Time runs for various corner kicks
• Vary runs on corner kicks to keep the defense off balance
• Use a defensive wall to your advantage
• and more ...

Make the most of free kick opportunities with this detailed DVD from Coach Brandon Koons.

60 minutes. 2011.

Give up fewer goals this season using these proven defensive tactics and exercises.

Brandon Koons demonstrates fundamental tactics for successful team defending. Coach Koons begins with an easy to understand discussion of the basic defending principals - pressure, cover, depth and balance. He then reviews the roles of the first, second and third defenders, the importance of a team's line of confrontation, and includes a discussion on team shape.

Using live demonstrations, Koons shows exercises that will help your defenders understand their roles and responsibilities. The exercises begin simply and are built upon slowly by adding conditions and players. During these exercises players learn the importance of communication, compactness, side-to-side movement and overall team shape. This video is of benefit to both players trying to understand defensive responsibilities and coaches trying to train their players.

Coach Koons' philosophy of "building from the back" by training players in defending fundamentals has proven quite successful over the years. This DVD will help you understand a defender's role and responsibility and provides training exercises to help improve your team's defending shape.

66 minutes. 2011.

Soccer, like all other sports, has basic skills which must be mastered for players to enjoy the game and to continue their skill development to whatever level their interests and abilities may take them. Soccer is not a complicated game and the basic skill requirements are clearly outlined in this DVD. Coaches of all levels of interest and experience can develop their own coaching technique to introduce these skills to new players and continue the development of more experienced players. The following skills are presented in detail:

• Juggling
• Passing
• Receiving
• Crossing
• Shielding
• Turning
• Heading
• Tackling

45 minutes. 2010.

Dutch players and teams are well known and respected around the world for their superior technical and tactical abilities as well as the uniform structure of their playing and training methods. The KNVB, the Dutch National Federation, highly recommends that teams from the youth level all the way to the professional team play a 4-3-3 formation. This allows for a seamless transition for players moving from one level to the next. In addition, the Dutch structure creates a progressive training environment because all of the coaches trained in the KNVB coaching education program are exposed to similar drills, exercises and small-sided games to develop the techniques, tactics and functional play of their teams.

Dutch Drills for Total Team Training begins with an overview of the positions and responsibilities of each player in a 4-3-3 formation before moving on to the drills and exercises used by Dutch coaches to train their players to become `Total Footballers'. The drills include: Dynamic Warm-up, Fitness Drills and General Drills that include passing, moving and dribbling before moving on to specific functional sessions to train player's to be effective in each position on the field. The functional sessions begin with the defenders and move through the triangle midfield before finishing with the forwards.

Whether or not your team plays the 4-3-3 formation, the detailed diagrams and complete explanations of the Dutch drills and exercises in this book will allow you to use these unique and successful training methods to improve the technical ability and tactical understanding of your team.

Formation Based Soccer Training is a unique new training method which can be used to teach any soccer formation while at the same time teaching individual technique and group tactics. Any training theme can be taught using this formation based system while at the same time teaching a game day formation and system of play within that formation. It doesn't matter if a coach plays a 4-4-2, a 4-3-3, a 4-2-3-1, or a 3-5-2, using a high or low pressure defense or an off balanced offense; every formation and every system within that formation can be taught at the same time as any technical and tactical aspect of the game including individual dribbling skills, passing, trapping, third man runs, recognizing visual cues, crossing, finishing, small and large group tactics, zonal or man for man defending, the off side trap, and every other individual and group technical and tactical aspect of the game.

The biggest difference between the usual theme oriented approach to training and Formation Based Soccer Training is that all exercises in a formation based system must be directional and include position-specific responsibilities in order to closely simulate game conditions. This not only coaches the players to improve the vital techniques of the game but also teaches them how to apply the techniques to actual game situations.

The purpose of this book is to enhance usual theme oriented training sessions, not to discourage their use. This system can be used for every training session for a full season, or it can be used sporadically one or two days per week. The System is flexible enough to be used to correct any individual or group deficiency, without a major change in a coach's basic style of coaching.

2010.

Coaching individual skills and technique isn't just for young players. Older, more accomplished players, as well as top professional players, continually hone their technical skills with specialized training on a regular basis.

In Coaching Advanced Techniques, Rob Gale, Canadian U17 Men's National Team Assistant Coach and Technical Director of Manitoba Soccer Association, shares numerous drills and exercises designed to help the advanced player hone and improve techniques like shooting, passing, first touch, volley's, shielding and more. These exercises will challenge even the most accomplished players to perform, sharper, quicker and under greater pressure than ever before.

2010.