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These sessions are animated by Play Manager™.  Play Manager™ is a commercial-grade playbook management and presentation tool for soccer coaches. Using animation and printed playbooks, this tool greatly enhances a coach’s ability to communicate with his team. The program includes a number of Offensive and Defensive Progressions, Set Pieces, as well as a substantial number of practice drills. Play Manager lets you easily create and save realistic representations of virtually anything that takes place on the soccer field.  

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New York Power - WUSA Session
A session by Tom Sermanni, former head coach of the Australian Women’s National Team and the WUSA’s New York Power. The session highlights exercises for attacking runs - "Going to Goal".

Getting Behind Defenders
Getting Across Front of Defender
Getting Outside a Defender
Making Crossover Runs
Overlapping Run From Midfielder
Getting Outside Defenders

Juventus F.C.
Contributed by WCC subscriber Dave Brown and is part of the Juventus Journal. This is a session from the Juventus team that included all their well known players such as Conte, Davids, Del Pierro, Montero, Nedved, Thuram, Trezeguet and Zambrotta.

Technical Work In Pairs 1
Technical Work In Pairs 2
Progression 1
Third Man Runs
Possesion Excercise: 6 v 6 + 6
Crossing Game


David Williams
Coach of the Manchester United U19 Youth Team, Williams is responsible for developing the youth players and preparing them for play in the First Team. Williams has extensive coaching experience and credentials including coaching in the English Premier League and at the National team level. Prior to joining Manchester United, Williams was the Assistant Manager/First Team Coach at Leeds United, Norwich City and Everton of the English Premier League and the Assistant Manager for the Welsh National Team.

This session by David Williams was conducted at the WORLD CLASS COACHING International Coaching Seminar in Connecticut on June 8 – 10, 2000. It starts with some individual defending and progresses to various exercises using four defenders and finally ends with four defenders working on a full field.

Warm-Up
Progression
Half Field Practice


PSV Eindenhoven U18 Team
This article appeared in the PSV Journal, which was given as a FREE BONUS to all subscribers of the WORLD CLASS COACHING magazine in 1999/2000. The 40-page journal consists of observations of training sessions of the PSV youth and professional teams. This session, focusing on shooting, is conducted with eight players of the U18 Youth team. More players could be added to the rotations or two drills could be used simultaneously. For further information on the PSV Journal click here.

Warm-Up
Warm-Up Variation
Shooting
Shooting Variation 1
Shooting Variation 2

Shooting Variation 3
Shooting Variation 4


San Jose Clash May/June 1998
This session was observed during pre-season training in Florida in February 1998.

Pressure Drill
One-Touch Shooting Drill
One-Touch Shooting Drill Variation
One-Touch Shooting Drill Variation 2


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