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Title: Defensive Soccer Tactics
Code: B3272X
Author: Jens Bangsbo and Birger Peitersen
Year: 2002
Length: 224 pages
Price: £11.99 
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Overview:

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 offenses-and completely shut down everyone else!

  • Contents:
    • Chapter 1 Covering and Marking
    • Chapter 2 Support and Recovery
    • Chapter 3 Forcing the Opponent's Direction
    • Chapter 4 Organization of Cover
    • Chapter 5 Man-to-Man Cover
    • Chapter 6 Zonal Cover
    • Chapter 7 Combination Defense
    • Chapter 8 Team Defensive Depth
    • Chapter 9 Cohesion Between Lines
    • Chapter 10 Goalkeeper Responsibilities
    • Chapter 11 High-Pressure Attack
    • Chapter 12 Offside Trap
    • Chapter 13 Catenaccio


    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.
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