This exceptional book in FULL COLOUR contains a complete coaching resource on the Tiki Taka philosophy, development, training methods, tactical insight and of course practices from FC Barcelona, Ajax, Liverpool and more.

This book covers some of the following:

• Learn the Tiki-Taka coaching philosophy
• How to develop the Tiki Taka method through purpose designed training sessions
• How to implement the Tiki Taka style of play
• Practices from FC Barcelona, AFC Ajax, Villarreal, Liverpool FC and more
• Blueprint of how to play with the Tiki-Taka brand of football
• Tactical Analysis of Guardiola, Cruyff and Van Gaal’s Positional Systems

• 224 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 50 Practices
• 30 Tactical
• U11-Pro Level

Jed Davies outlines in detail the Tiki-Taka football philosophy popularised by Barcelona and Spain and shows you, the coach, how to implement this style of play. Davies has studied the methods used at FC Barcelona, Liverpool FC, Swansea City FC, Villarreal CF and AFC Ajax who have all developed possession based philosophies as a way of controlling and winning games.

Part 1 explores the development theory that requires an understanding before you are able to produce the Tiki-Taka style of football, this includes: Establishing a Football Philosophy, Identifying Local Talent and Purposeful Training.

Part 2 looks at the Tiki-Taka philosophy and how it can be developed through purpose designed training sessions. 50 practices are provided from professional clubs including FC Barcelona, AFC Ajax, Athletic Bilbao and Liverpool FC.

Part 3 looks at the influential figures in the evolution of Tiki-Taka with chapters on Rinus Michels (‘The Father of Football’), Johan Cruyff and Pep Guardiola among others.

Part 4 looks at the Tactical Theory and provides a blueprint of how to play with the Tiki-Taka brand of football. It analyses positional systems, game realistic situations and solves tactical problems such as when the opposition are sitting in a deep low block (‘Parking the Bus’), all using the advice provided from professional coaches who have been involved in the implementation of the Tiki-Taka philosophy.

Practice Topic Samples:

• AFC AJAX: 4 v 4 (+2) End to End Possession Game
• FC BARCELONA: 5 v 4 Breaking Out of the Middle Third
• VILLARREAL CF: The Gridded 4 Goal Game
• ATHLETIC BILBAO: Finding Space within the Block (Pattern Play)
• LIVERPOOL FC: The Defensive Block Scoring Zone Game
• FC BARCELONA: Switching Play through a Central Zone Transition Game
• AFC AJAX: 3 v 3 / 6 v 3 Quick Phases Transition Game

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Jedd C. Davis

Jed is the assistant manager and head of analysis for Oxford University Centaurs and has worked with various youth players throughout Europe.

He has studied the methods used at FC Barcelona, Liverpool FC, Swansea FC, Villarreal CF, AFC Ajax and a number of teams developing a particular fascination with the possession based philosophies in football as a way of controlling and winning games.

Tiki-Taka football is a style of football popularised by Spain and Barcelona during the decade ending 2010 and is part of a philosophy in football that has existed right from the game’s very beginnings: a way of controlling the game through possession and positional systems.

Jed Davies has been fortunate enough to speak in great lengths with a number of coaches who work at the clubs who currently advocate the possession based philosophy and in doing so, has developed a clear understanding of what the tiki-taka philosophy is and how it can be developed through purpose designed training sessions.

A train of thought has been developed that football that is played in this way is developed through it’s ‘form’: positional systems, attitudes to building up possession etc. Davies therefore has proposed that football tactics should be designed around the dictum “form follows process”, a way of perfect football within an adaptive structure where the structure and positional system is the agent of change, rather than the players themselves.

Learn how to Coach the 'Tiki-Taka' Style of Play

Level U11-Pro 50 Practices 30 Tactical 224 Pages

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