Every player needs to possess the basic skills of the game in order to compete successfully. Taking these skills to the next level is the challenge for every coach.

In Total Training for Advanced Players, Rob Gale, Canadian U17 Men’s National Team Assistant Coach and Technical Director of Manitoba Soccer Association, begins where all players do, with foundational skills like shooting, passing, first touch, volley’s, shielding, etc. Each of these chapters begins with the basics and progress by adding more complex demands and greater pressure of time, space and opposition. These exercises will challenge even the most accomplished players to perform sharper, quicker and under greater pressure than ever before.

The chapters each build on the one before, starting with basic skill work done in isolation and moving toward realistic game situations. The chapters include: Touch Drills, One v One, Possession, Transition, Position Specific Training and Working in Small Groups. More than 240 diagrams and descriptions explain the drills, exercises and small-sided games that will take your players to the next level.

Rob Gale - Canadian U17 Men’s National Team Assistant Coach and Technical Director of Manitoba Soccer Association. Gale is the former Director of Score UK Soccer Fulham Academies and author of English Professional League Academy Training Sessions, Volume 1 & 2.