Dear Coach,
The 4-3-3 is one of the most popular formations in soccer today, utilized by teams like Holland, Chelsea and Inter Milan to devastating effect. Its flexibility and attacking philosophy makes it a tantalizing option for coaches wishing to increase their scoring opportunities and to entertain the fans. However, players can easily get confused on their unique roles and responsibilities in this formation when they are used to playing a traditional 4-4-2. Without proper training on how to play the 4-3-3, this can lead to major problems on game day.
To aid coaches to train their teams in the 4-3-3, author Tony Englund has created a series of books which explain in exhaustive detail exactly how to train and utilize the 4-3-3 like the world’s great attacking sides.
These two books in the Player’s Roles and Responsibilities in the 4-3-3 series are packed with training exercises, detailed explanations and tactical insights. Literally everything you need to know about the 4-3-3 is covered, providing you with a complete training program on one of the soccer world’s most exciting, free flowing formations.
“A comprehensive program for training your team to play the 4-3-3”
There are other books available on the 4-3-3, but few, if any, offer the comprehensive range of 4-3-3 focused training drills you’ll find in this series. In addition, few books offer training exercises in a progressive format that enable you to gradually increase the challenge for your players as their confidence and understanding of the 4-3-3 improves.
The focus of the training exercises in Player’s Roles and Responsibilities in the 4-3-3 starts with training players individually, then training them to work as a unit before training as an entire team in 11v11 scenarios. This approach ensures players develop an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of their position gradually before putting them to the test in 11v11 game mini games.
As well as progressive, Player’s Roles and Responsibilities in the 4-3-3 is comprehensive in the array of drills and exercises for playing the 4-3-3 formation. This enables you to make training sessions more enjoyable, motivating and challenging for players, and ensures your team is better equipped to harness the 4-3-3 to devastating effect on game day.
“These are the most in-depth books regarding the 4-3-3 formation you will find anywhere”
The author of Player’s Roles and Responsibilities in the 4-3-3, Tony Englund, has extensive soccer coaching experience, holding 14 coaching certifications, including the NSCAA Premier, Director of Coaching Diploma, Advanced National Diploma and an International Coaches’ Association Fitness and Conditioning for Soccer License.
During a fifteen year playing career, Tony played goalkeeper on high-level youth and adult club teams, helping his high school team to a conference title and a number one ranking. Englund’s club teams have earned five state championships and compiled more than 350 wins and fifty tournament and league championships. Two of his teams have earned top twenty regional rankings and one earned a national top fifty ranking.
Between 1996 and 2003, Englund served as head coach at Hill-Murray Girls High School. During the 2001 regular season the team earned a record of 18-0-0, making them the only unbeaten team in school history. That year, Englund was named Minnesota State High School Soccer Coaches Association Coach of the Year.
Tony Englund is currently the Assistant Director of Coaching at St. Croix Soccer Club and a lead presenter at the Minnesota Youth Soccer Association’s Winter Symposium in 2009, 2011, and 2012. He was also a presenter for the Minnesota State High School Soccer Association’s Fall Clinic in 2011.high-level coaching symposiums. Englund is also the author of one of our best-selling books, FC Barcelona.
What’s covered in Player’s Roles and Responsibilities in the 4-3-3
One book focuses on defense and the other on attack when deploying the 4-3-3 formation. When combined you get the ultimate guide to coaching the popular attacking formation. Both are loaded with detailed diagrams and exercises for giving your players a complete training program on how to play the 4-3-3.
Both books include an analysis of how Holland utilized the 4-3-3 to successfully reach the final of the 2010 World Cup; a detailed look at the roles and responsibilities of each position and the formation’s strengths and challenges.
The defense focused book features 21 defensive training sessions, more than 90 diagrams and detailed coaching points for every exercise.
Defending book includes:
Author, Tony Englund conducting a session at a symposium
The offense focused book is packed with 26 attacking sessions and 125 diagrams. The training sessions cover each section of the formation individually before bringing everything together into small sided games at the end.
Attacking book includes:
What you will gain from Player’s Roles and Responsibilities in the 4-3-3
The two books in the series are loaded with detailed diagrams, explanations and coaching points on how to train players in the 4-3-3 formation. The drills are also organized in a progressive manner so that players can develop an understanding of the roles and responsibilities through individual drills before being given more challenging drills that place them in game like situations. This approach ensures they can gain confidence in how to play the 4-3-3 formation and are better prepared for game day.
From the two books in Player’s Roles and Responsibilities in the 4-3-3you will gain:
There are plenty of drills for coaching players in technical skills, but few coaching guides show you how to develop the mindset and understanding on how to use these technical skills in the 4-3-3 formation. When the two books are combined, Player’s Roles and Responsibilities in the 4-3-3 provides arguably the most comprehensive guide to coaching the 4-3-3 available. It provides you with everything you need to know in order to harness the formation’s attacking, free flowing style to devastating effect.
“These books are a great addition to any coach’s library. Tony Englund’s analysis of recent international teams gives a great picture of what the 4-3-3 system looks like at the top level of the game. Providing a full season of practices for each side of the game gives a coaching staff the tools needed to implement this style with their team. The level of detail in the sessions and coaching points offered both remind the session leader what to emphasize in practice and will allow me use the coaching points I’ve identified with my team to help break down what our problem areas might be within our system of play.” – Katy Stigers, head women’s soccer coach, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA
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“These are outstanding books and a must read for coaches of all levels”
Popularized by Holland in the 1974 World Cup, the 4-3-3 has grown to become arguably the most popular attacking formation in modern soccer. This means that even if you prefer to play the 4-4-2 or any other formation, you will have to face a team playing 4-3-3 at some point.
This is why these books are a valuable addition to your coaching library. From the two books in the Player’s Roles and Responsibilities in the 4-3-3 series you will gain an in-depth understanding of the formation and how it can give you a tactical advantage. Its comprehensive program of drills will enable you to coach your players on how the unique responsibilities of each position and give them the tactical edge on match day.
From the formation’s philosophy to its tactics to training drills, everything is covered. Whether you coach recreational sides or those playing at the highest level, Player’s Roles and Responsibilities in the 4-3-3 provides you with everything you need so you can utilize the 4-3-3 to dominate opponents and to score more goals through attacking, free flowing soccer.
Best Wishes,
Mike Saif
President
P.S. Player’s Roles and Responsibilities in the 4-3-3 is a series of two books which show in-depth how to defend and attack with the 4-3-3 formation. Packed with detailed diagrams, formation analysis and training drills, when combined these books provide you with everything you need to know about how to progressively train your team in the most popular attacking formation in modern soccer.
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