Team intentions
Understanding Team Intentions in Football
What the team is trying to do together, with and without the ball.
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How I teach the game.
Players learn faster when every coach at a club teaches the same game. This is mine: the ideas, the film, and the standard every session is held to.
The ideas
Six ideas underneath it.
Perception and decision come before technique. Everything on this page follows from that.
Framework
CDE
Communication, decision, execution: three components inside every action, all at once. A technically perfect pass to the wrong player is poor execution of the decision. Built on Raymond Verheijen's Football Periodisation.
The game as the model
The four moments
Attacking organisation, attacking transition, defensive organisation, defensive transition. Each moment carries an identity, such as available and threatening, a mentality, such as forward first, and match targets.
Team
Team intentions
Exploit the space behind the last line. Exploit the space in front of it. Exploit the space through the next line. Visit the widths until we can.
Player
Individual intentions
What a player's action is for: finding the progress option, being the progress option, or improving the conditions for progress.
Support
360 support
The map from team intentions to individual ones: in behind, in front, through, alongside, underneath, opposite half space, width. Use the free, be the free, create the free.
Insight
Range and pinning
Range asks whether a player's starting position and distance suit the intention. Pinning is being free in front of or behind the opponent's last line, or creating that space for a teammate.
Clips
One idea, one minute.
Short cuts from my analysis videos. Real match footage, one idea each, captioned so they work with the sound off.
The video library
Four sessions on film.
The same explanations my players and coaches get. Press play to watch here, or open any session on Loom.
Individual intentions
Individual Intentions and Decision Making
Progress the ball, or become a progress option: two ends of one exchange.
Watch on LoomDecision making
Mastering Decision Making and Range
Decision making and range in football actions.
Watch on Loom360 support
Mastering 360 Degree Support in Football
Look forward, play forward. Use the free, be the free, create the free.
Watch on LoomThe session standard
Four coaching pillars.
The four tests every session is measured against. They are also where my coach workshop Four Pillars in Practice begins.
01
Ball rolling time
How much of the session the ball is actually in play.
02
Intensity
Sessions at the speed and effort of the game.
03
Looks like football
Practice that resembles the game it is preparing players for.
04
Defensive problems
Every session gives players a real defensive problem to solve.
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