Earlier this week I posted about something pretty major that I've been working on, something that coaches have never had access to before and today I'll give you a preview of chapter 1, or the first chapter that I finished (I'm up to finish my 13th chapter out of about 20.)
Here it is:
CHAPTER #1 - FRONT PRESS DEFENSE
The forward press defense was popularised by Richmond during their premiership years where then Sydney started using it very soon after and now a bunch of clubs use it regularly.
This needs to be a full team mentality as every needs to be all in on this for it to work, otherwise huge holes will be visible in your team defense, and is why it might scare of more teams from using it more often.
That being said I think the advantages that it can provide your team are too good ignore so I'd definitely want tit to be in my team's defensive toolbox.
Pressure from behind is possibly the "least" pressure you can apply as the ball carrier as they still have eyes on what's unfolding in front of them, space to play through and are relatively perfectly balanced to execute a kick or handball.
Applying pressure from in front of them disrupts all of this by taking away their time and space to do any of this, forcing them to re-route their decision making while under probably physical pressure with the play in front of them blocked.
If they are able to dispose of the ball the handball will be high and loopy to get over the player applying frontal pressure which then gives time for the next layer of front press defense to bet there and so on until they turn the ball over.
A kick will be rushed and high as well and again easily defended by.
I mentioned pressure from behind above and you still need it as if everyone from the defensive side of the ball simply charges forward then you're vulnerable if they make it through so the chaser's from behind still need to perform that, but the hope is that the front pressure delays the opposition ball movement and they can "catch up" and apply actual physical pressure, saving defensive players from leave their post if they can.
Lastly, you need to determine specific triggers for when this is to happen so that there is a shared mental model of this among all teammates.
Specific language that greatly assist in teaching this includes "press forward" or simply "press", "boundary close-in" and "all-in" or "trading up".
In the 4 videos below, you'll see exactly what this can look like at different times of the game as well as the triggers for when to "go".
What follows are the 4 videos with coaching insights from each and then 4 training activities that you can train this through, again with coaching points in designing and teaching it.
This is the template for all chapters and goes into excellent detail for each of the game aspects I've chosen to highlight.
This will be a most valuable tool for any football coach who wants greater details or a different set eyes on something they already know about, or for those who want to expand from their current coaching base.
I'm leaning towards releasing this chapter-by-chapter which will give you time to read, digest and process before the next one comes out and you're not flooded with too much new information all at once, causing massive cognitive overload!
It was stop me from rushing to get all this finish for a single release so I reckon early next week could be the first release so keep your eyes open.
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