The four seasons that Josep \'Pep\' Guardiola spent in charge of the first team at FC Barcelona saw a period of extraordinary football supremacy delivered through tactical richness, ball retention, and player skill.
Important Note: Play Like Pep Guardiola\'s Barcelona: A Soccer Coach\'s Guide is the English translation of Quiero que mi equipo juegue c.
The book\'s foreword is by Ray Power, the author of the acclaimed football coaching books Making The Ball Roll: A Complete Guide to Youth Football for the Aspiring Soccer Coach, Soccer Tactics 2014: What The World Cup Taught Us, and The Deliberate Soccer Practice books.
Incorporating detailed discussion of the Model of Play, Tactical Periodization, the four phases of the game, positional play, and more, a methodological framework is presented that can be used to train almost any proficient football team whether amateur, semi-professional or professional.
Play Like Pep Guardiola\'s Barcelona: A Soccer Coach\'s Guide provides a theoretical base alongside practical guidance for coaches (even if they do not have elite players such as Lionel Messi, Xavi, and Andrés Iniesta) to develop the \'play\' that Guardiola developed during his second season at Barça.
The playing philosophy, model of play, associated drills, and weekly training schedule are implemented from day one that the squad assembles.
Indeed, regular season training is simply a continuation of everything a team learns and implements during this phase, based on the playing schedule and other resources at a coach\'s disposal.
Containing more than 50 illustrations, detailing on-field drills, Principles/Subprinciples/Sub-SubPrinciples, tactical diagrams and weekly planning schedules, this practical and to-the-point book focuses explicitly on the preseason period as it lays the foundation for how a team will train, play, and perform over the season.
Written by Agustín Peraita, FCBEscola Project Director at Sao Paulo FC Barcelona, this book is for Soccer coaches looking to understand and implement Pep Guardiola\'s tactical approach and coaching methodology for that 2009-2010 Barça side.
Every few months you could observe the team reinventing itself on the blackboard and on the field, constantly striving to improve and dominate the opposition further.
Indeed, for many, the Barça side of 2009-2010 is held up as one of the great teams of modern football: a team that played a possession-based game which bamboozled opponents and delighted Soccer lovers around the world.
The four seasons that Josep \'Pep\' Guardiola spent in charge of the first team at FC Barcelona saw a period of extraordinary football supremacy delivered through tactical richness, ball retention, and player skill
