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Defensive Soccer
Tactics Book (Copyright 2002, 224 pages)
Prepare your defense
for the most challenging offensive attacks! Defensive
Soccer Tactics provides complete coverage of individual
and team defensive systems, strategies, and tactics,
with more than 100 diagrams that illustrate proper
defensive positioning. No other book offers the
depth of information in Defensive Soccer Tactics.
Learn to assess the defensive system and strategies
that best suit your players, and gain insight to
help you adjust your defense during a match. You'll
find coaching points that make it easy to grasp
the concepts presented and exercises designed to
help your players master your chosen defense and
shut down their opponents. The book follows a building-block
approach, progressing from individual skills to
team defense skills, systems, and strategies. Defensive
Soccer Tactics includes chapters on: covering and
marking, support and recovery, forcing the opponent's
direction, man-to-man coverage, zone coverage, combination
defense, team defensive depth, coordination among
teammates, goalkeeper responsibilities, high-pressure
attack, offside trap, and door-bolt defense (catenaccio).
Defensive Soccer Tactics gives you everything you
need to prepare your defense for the challenges
from the opposition. Soon your team will contain
even the most explosive offensesA<>A--and completely
shut down everyone else! About the Author Jens Bangsbo
has been playing and coaching soccer for more than
35 years. He spent 15 years as a top-level player
in Denmark, playing more than 400 matches in the
top Danish league. In international play, he represented
Denmark as both a youth player and as a member of
the A national team. Bangsbo has been an instructor
at the Danish Football Association since 1986 and
is an assistant head coach for the Juventus soccer
club in Italy. He has published more than 100 articles
on soccer and conditioning, and he has written several
books, including Soccer Systems & Strategies. Birger
Peitersen is also one of Denmark's top soccer figures,
having coached the Danish Women's national team
and the national champions of the men's league,
and also serving as staff coach of the Danish Football
Federation. In 1982, he received the highest coaching
award in Denmark, the Diploma in Elite Soccer Coaching.
Peitersen was the expert commentator for International
European Matches on Danish television in the UEFA
Champions League and for Danish radio at the World
Cup in 1990 and 1998 and the European Championships
in 1992 and 1996. Tabl
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