SMALL-NUMBER FOOTBALL?

With more touches, more decisions, and more opportunities to play, young players naturally develop awareness, creativity, confidence, and game intelligence.

With over 70 games covering the major aspects of football, this book explores how thoughtfully designed environments can create meaningful learning experiences through the game itself.

Rather than simply presenting games to copy, Small-Number Football? also offers a way of thinking about coaching—one that places play, curiosity, problem solving and experience at the heart of player development.

Small-Number Football? is broken down into the major aspects of the game such as Warm-Up, Dribbling, Passing, Shooting, Defending & Pressing, Overloads & Transitions.

For each theme, 8 games are presented with clear explanations and easy to follow instructions to deliver.

The book also includes a Free Play section – a collection of varied games with conditions to challenge players.

With the aim of not only providing a wide array of games but also to empower coaches with understanding, a brief, easy-to-digest overview of key aspects of coaching are presented in the first part of the book.

An important consideration when designing Small-Number Football? was that it would be clear to follow and easy to use.

With thoughtful design, bitesize content and easy-to-follow games, this book offers plenty of resources for all coaches – whatever the age and ability of the players in your care.