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.

The activities on disc 2 look at a variety of functional and tactical training exercises that create an environment where players can acquire the decision making ability to be collectively and individually dangerous attacking players.

Attacking Disc 1:

• 1v1 Individual Attacking Skills,
  with Nancy Feldman- NSCAA National Staff Coach, Head Coach- Boston University
• 1v1 To 2v2 Attacking,
  with Nancy Feldman- NSCAA National Staff Coach, Head Coach- Boston University
• Combination Play In The Final Third,
  with Laura Kerrigan- NSCAA National Staff Coach, Head Coach- North Carolina State University
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• Finishing Skills,
  with Theresa Echtermeyer- NSCAA National Staff Coach, Director of Coaching Littleton United Soccer

Attacking Disc 2:

• Possession With A Purpose,
  with Nancy Feldman- NSCAA National Staff Coach, Head Coach- Boston University
• Training The Playmaker,
  with Janet Rayfield- NSCAA National Staff Coach, Head Coach- University of Illinois
• Box Organization,
  with Lauren Gregg- NSCAA National Staff Coach, Former U.S. National Team Assistant Coach
• Training The Three Front,
  with Janet Rayfield

145 minutes (2 DVDs). 2006.

In the first section, using the concept of Coaching In The Game Methodology, the coach will learn how to train a soccer team's attacking tactical understanding through using a 6v6 format with very active play and start positions allowing maximum touches on the ball to simulate the reality of moving from one third of the field to another.

The Progressive Methodology section begins with possession games and moves all the way to a realistic soccer game with two large goals with goalkeepers. This section features the use of the 4v2 to teach penetrating passes, and the 5v3 to teach changing the point of attack. In this section the coach learns to move the training of attacking tactics from simple to complex and from clarity to reality in a progressive fashion.

In the Small-sided Games section the soccer coach learns how to design and implement free flowing and realistic games for teaching for specific topics in the attack- penetration, possession, runs off the ball and where and when to run off the ball. The coach also learns to use these games to teach the principles of attack: width, depth, mobility and penetration.

Sir Alex Ferguson and Jos‚ Mourinho are two of the world's top coaches, yet their tactics and systems are very different. This book describes the 4-4-2 system Ferguson uses with Manchester United and the 4-3-3 formation Mourinho has successfully employed at Chelsea and Inter Milan. Each of their preferred formations is covered in great detail including an insight into each system and how and why the key players are used to create the greatest advantage for the team. When new players are introduced the dynamics of the system change and this book shows you how these top managers adjust their teams to gain the result they need. This book will take you inside the minds of these two tactical wizards.

Every system of play has strengths and weaknesses. The challenge for each coach is to play to your strengths and attack the weaknesses of the other team, while leaving as few openings as possible for the opponent. 4-4-2 vs 4-3-3 describes how these systems of play match-up against each other and how Ferguson and Mourinho made adjustments to maximize their effectiveness.

Do players fit the system or does the coach determine the system depending on the players at his disposal? The qualities and roles of players like Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard, John Terry and Petr Chech in Chelsea's 4-3-3 and Ryan Giggs, Christiano Ronaldo, David Beckham, Roy Keane and Wayne Rooney in Manchester United's 4-4-2 are all discussed.

Whether your team plays a 4-4-2, 4-3-3 or some other formation, this unique insight into two of the world's best coaches and their tactical thinking will help you while training your own team and preparing a game plan for upcoming opponents.

Good players are often not involved in the game enough to make a serious impact. This can be a major handicap for a team with exceptional forwards who don't see enough of the ball to score goals. One way to ensure your best players are always involved is to teach them how to create space so they are in a position to receive passes.

30 Minute Soccer Clinic - Creating Space to Score starts with simple drills to teach players the technique of checking away then coming back to receive the pass. Different exercise progress the session by adding defenders. Once players understand how to create space individually, the session focuses on working with two forwards and methods of creating space for each other.

This session was conducted at the 2008 Football Coaching International Coaching Conference, Brisbane, Australia.

30 Minute Soccer Clinic DVDs provide quality instruction demonstrated in a condensed training session of approximately 30 minutes. However, the drills and exercises in this DVD can be conducted as a complete training session or utilized in your training sessions regularly throughout the season.