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Coach Education Specialists | Positional Play | Juego de Posicion | Set-Piece Analyst
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Carragher with a classic ‘talking just to say something’ moment here. Had it myself on coaches courses or when pressed to analyze a random clip in 3 seconds from having first seen it. You can develop tunnel vision and be so convinced of your opinion, because of the need to say something, that you double down on it and see nothing else. If you step back and watch the clip a couple of times, you actually see that: The midfielder is tracking the run into the exact space Carragher says Konate should be in. That’s reason number 1 why Konate didn’t track him. Reason number 2 is that we don’t want our CB pulled all the way out to the half space if we can avoid it.
King Knight Education856,326 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
¡COACHES HAVE YOUR PLAYERS WATCH THIS! My 9 year old son & I spent 20 minutes going through this video this afternoon. He understood it & then did it in his Coerver session tonight in a 2v1 game. The SIMPLE detail of taking your touch away from the 2nd attacker is everything.
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A very simple, but excellent clip here of Man City practicing Sub-Principles (Defensive Line Principles) from their Game Model. Not everything has to reinvent the wheel. Notice the full back looking down the line to adjust its height. Look at the age-old principles of play: pressure, cover and balance. Observe advancing and retreating as a line (protecting the space in front or protecting the space behind) to avoid gaps in between line or between players in lines. Identical to the #KingKnightEd sub-principles for the Defensive Line.
King Knight Education2,329,473 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
COACHES WATCH THIS VIDEO. A very nice but very simple analysis from Henry here about how Cucurella: Denied Yamal coming inside onto his shooting foot. Showed him into defensive support. Took ground as the ball was travelling but then stopped once Yamal received the ball. Adopted a low, balanced athletic position. Worth showing all players from U10 to U110.
King Knight Education288,717 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
¡¡¡ COACHES PLEASE WATCH THIS!!! Knowing Amorim personally and having seen what he is about, the process he has made with a Man Utd team that is not at its pomp of old is frankly, pretty good. His point here is spot on but, maybe more applicable to the majority of our Twitter followers who are working at grass roots level, this applies equally to the players and parents you might have to deal with on a daily basis. The sense of entitlement and unwillingness to stay, fight and earn. Would love to hear your thoughts.
King Knight Education155,299 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
Arsenal run across the box, from back post to front, pushing & pulling 6 Chelsea players away from the back post which leaves 2 attacking player to compete for the back post header across the box. ¡¡¡2nd actions are 9 times more likely to result in a goal than 1st time shots!!!
King Knight Education56,203 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
¡COACHES WATCH THIS VIDEO! Jose Mourinho talking about the importance of Game Principles (constants/non negotiables) throughout a team v tactics which vary game to game based on opposition. Game Models really are required to devop anything meaningful longterm, over time.
King Knight Education75,333 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten
¡COACHES WATCH THIS VIDEO! Thierry Henry talking here about the trade offs at the back, in terms of numerical superiority in your own defensive line, when you press the other team man-to-man in their build up phase. Not rocket science but worth a watch.
King Knight Education43,960 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
¡¡¡COACHES WATCH THIS!!! Players on the field must be able to manage situations as they arise rather than relying on their coach. This is ONE of the reasons we must train opposed, open, complex system games with transitional moments. To bring out leaders who are used to certain scenarios occurring & can deal with them in real time.
King Knight Education24,193 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Honestly coaches, this video is really worth a watch. We have been observing and commenting on this for a while. Wingers scoring less, assisting less and becoming less of an attacking threat in the Prem. Saka, a great young player, has dropped off. Wingers now have it drilled into them to come back and support defensively when their fullbacks are attacked 1v1, turning it into a 1v2. Coaches are terrified of wingers cutting inside and connecting and opening the field internally, so the defensive winger is hauled back to help. All. The. Time. The defending winger now has a much larger distance to cover to get into an attacking position when play transitions. If he picks up the ball deep, all but the very best players cannot carry 70 yards and then deliver, they certainly cannot do it repeatedly. They lose their freshness, replaced with fatigue, in the key ‘trigger moments’ 1v1 or in front of goal. Their starting positions are too low. Too close to their own goal. Often, they are now used to simply facilitate circulation of the ball in Zone 2 as the wide player. They now have less opportunities and those opportunities are often started from deeper, so maybe it is not a suprise to see falling stats across the #7/#11 positions. Maybe it is not the individual wingers fault, but more of a symptom of the system.
King Knight Education30,001 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
¡COACHES PLEASE WATCH! John Barnes hasn’t kicked a ball for 25 plus years. He still talks more sense than most pundits and has more of an understanding than a lot of grass roots coaches. Here he references: Game Models and Collective Intentions. Numerical Superiority and how not having it forces teams to adjust how they build. Receiving in Space and the need for this to be a non stop, continuous endeavor across the whole team and how, without it, progression of the ball as a team stops and it becomes an individual pursuit.
King Knight Education27,100 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
Nice short video from Sky Sports here on the importance of scanning. #kingknighted
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A great video of Xavi talking about the importance of the ‘4 P’s’ in the Game Model and DNA of Barcelona: Positioning. Pressure. Possession. Perception. Jordi Alba also talking about how it is difficult for players that were not taught these things as children to do them now. That’s why it is so important to implement #KingKnightEd Concepts from an early age.
King Knight Education83,760 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
COACHES WATCH/READ THIS. Brentford’s Thomas Frank with some great insight on how he adjusts his team’s formation and defensive schemes based on the opposition but the game principles still remain consistent. He talks about marking man to man when defending from the front, and what he thinks are the benefits of defending with five players at the back. This is a really insightful video and we encourage you to spend four minutes viewing it.
King Knight Education50,375 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
¡COACHES WATCH THIS VIDEO! A great example of some King Knight Concepts here (some explicitly mentioned, some implied). Defending high up the pitch is a more active and ‘responsibility oriented’ type of defending compared to defending deep. Coaches still, in 2026, default to defending deep when protecting a 1-0 lead whereas statistically defending high up the field, when orchestrated correctly, is more efficient.
King Knight Education15,569 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
THIS REALLY IS WORTH WATCHING COACHES: A simple but exceptionally clear example of why the Collective Concept, Third Man, is so important. See how the Third Man is able to operate almost unseen whilst defensive pressure is focused on the 1st Attacker (ball-carrier) and 2nd Attacker (receiving player) whilst the Third Man effortlessly drifts into positions to receive one or two touch passes and progress play upfield. #KingKnightConcepts #ThirdMan
King Knight Education13,369 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
Coaches, read this ⚽️👇👇👇⚽️ Bernardo Silva: "Guardiola doesn't let other teams adapt to us. Every year he creates something different so that the teams don't get used to our way of playing. He shows me that I'm wrong, because we do it well and he changes so that we continue doing it Even better". Adaptation, progression and evolution. If you have a team of players for a long period of time, how do you ensure their progress and avoid plateauing or even regression?
King Knight Education24,041 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
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