The 5-Minute Football Coach #84

Breakout-and-score game, Coaching refresher, Old advice

Hi there,

After a bit of a lockdown-related break, the 5MFC is back!

Here are this week’s 3 coaching tips:

🥅 Practice of the week

A nice little game from the English FA for quick possession play, and counter-attacking.

💡 Idea(s) of the week

After a few months without coaching, I’m probably not the only one to feel a bit rusty… So back to basics with this useful summary of core coaching advice:

📖 Tactic of the week

Pretty old but good advice for playing against a tight defence... Some ideas are not that new!

Paul McGuinness @Paulmcg8

Jimmy Murphy’s ‘rule of thumb’ advice to the Busby Babes in the 50s - is brilliant simplicity - vs a compact defence play back to entice the opposition forward creating gaps between their lines - play square to open gaps sideways & ‘loosen them up’ while searching to pass forward

Hope this was useful. Until next time, have a great week!

Fabrice

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