Coaching the Tiki Taka Style of Play

CONTENT

PART 1: THE TIKI TAKA DEVELOPMENT THEORY
1. The Importance Of Small Sided Games For Technical Development
1.1. Research and Studies
1.2. The English FA,s Plan for Changes
1.3. Futsal
1.4. Conclusion
2. Lack Of Central Philosophy
2.1. A Critical Analysis of the Long Ball Approach
3. A Global Football Philosophy
3.1. Barcelona
3.2. Ajax
4. Establishing A Central Philosophy)
4.1. Liverpool FC
5. A Local Talent Identification Programme
6. Player Potential And Development
6.1. ‘Geniuses Are Made Not Born,: The Polgar Sisters Chess Experiment
7. Fc Barcelona Case Study
7.1. Approach to Purposeful Training Hours at La Masia
8. Purposeful Training
9. Growth Mindset: Carol Dweck,s Experiment
9.1. ‘Always Praise Effort and Not Talent,
10. Training At ‘The Edge Of Your Ability,.
11. Cognitive Training
12. The Powers Of Training The Mental Aspects Of A Player
12.1. The Power of Imagination: Effective Visualisation
12.2. Eliminating Doubt
12.3. Mental Toughness
13. Purposeful Training, A Summary And Conclusion
13.1. Building Up Play From the Back Dynamic End Line Game

PART 2: 50 PRACTICES TO COACH THE TIKI TAKA STYLE OF PLAY
Training Methods
Practice Format
1. FC BARCELONA: The Rondo
2. FC BARCELONA: The Double Rondo
3. FC BARCELONA: The Adjacent Passing Square Exercise
4. FC BARCELONA: The Laureano Ruiz Simplified Triangulation Exercise
5. AFC AJAX: 4 v 4 (+2) End to End Possession Game
6. AFC AJAX: 4 v 4 (+1) Corner To Corner Possession Exercise
7. FC BARCELONA: Shielding the Ball and Waiting for Support with 3 v 1 Play
8. AFC AJAX: Directional 6 v 6 ‘3 Goals Game,
9. FC BARCELONA: 5 v 4 Breaking Out of the Middle Third
10. LIVERPOOL FC: Position Specific 8 v 8 (+1) Possession Exercise
11. VILLARREAL CF: The Gridded 4 Goal Game
12. VILLARREAL CF: Match Realistic Overloads in a 3 Zone Small Sided Game
13. LIVERPOOL FC: Playing through the Lines in a 4 Zone Passing Exercise
14. FC BARCELONA: Playing through the Thirds with 1 v 1 Duels
15. AFC AJAX: 10 v 4 Playing through the Middle Third (Zone)
16. AFC AJAX: 7 v 7 Three Zone Small Sided Game
17. AFC AJAX: Passing in Behind the Defensive Line in a 4 v 4 (+2) SSG with 2 End Zones
18. FC BARCELONA: Using Width in Your Own Half SSG
19. FC BARCELONA: Playing Out from the Back 3 Zone SSG
20. FC BARCELONA: 8 v 9 Phase of Play – Playing against the Deep Block
21. SWANSEA CITY FC: Position Specific Pattern Play
22. SWANSEA CITY FC: 8 v 6 Phase of Play – Playing Out from the Back
23. ATHLETIC BILBAO: Finding Space within the Block (Pattern Play)
24. ATHLETIC BILBAO: Finding Space within a Compact Block (Pattern Play)
25. FC BARCELONA: Team Positioning When Playing Out from the Back (Pattern Play)
26. FC BARCELONA: Team Positioning When Playing Out from the Back From a Throw-in (Pattern Play)
27. LIVERPOOL FC: Shooting Practice with Quick Passing
28. FC BARCELONA: Feeding the Ball into the Front 3 (3 v 3 (+GK) Attacking Practice)
29. WIGAN ATHLETIC FC: Finding the Centre Forward in the Box 3 v 3 (+GK) Practice
30. FEYENOORD FC: Raymond Verheijen,s Sprinting& Finishing Under Pressure
31. AFC AJAX: 3 Man 1 v 1 Duel ‘Moves to Beat, Dribbling Exercise
32. FC BARCELONA: The 3 Station Interchanges Exercise (Losing Your Man)
33. VILLARREAL CF: 4 v 4 Pressing Patterns
34. VILLARREAL CF: 3 v 3 High Intensity Transition Game
35. FC BARCELONA: Switching Play through a Central Zone Transition Game
36. FC BARCELONA: 5 v 2 / 5 v 8 Quick Transition Game with Central Square
37. AFC AJAX: 7 v 7 Transition Game with Blocking Zone
38. FC BARCELONA: Pressing Organisation Position Specific Pattern Play
39. LIVERPOOL FC: The Defensive Block Scoring Zone Game
40. AFC AJAX: Defensive Shape Transition Game
41. FC BARCELONA: 7 v 7 ‘Triggers, Pressing Game
42. FC BARCELONA: 7 v 7 ‘6 Second Rule, Pressing Game
43. FC BARCELONA: Pressing Attacking Zone Game
44. AFC AJAX: 3 v 3 / 6 v 3 Quick Phases Transition Game
45. SWANSEA CITY FC: Attacking in the Final Third (2 v 2s)
46. FC BARCELONA: 2 v 1 / 2 v 3 Quick Transition Game
47. FC BARCELONA: Playing through the False 9 in a SSG
48. FC BARCELONA: 3 Team Vision& Awareness Practice
49. FC BARCELONA: 3 v 1 / 2 v 2 Awareness Game
50. FC BARCELONA: 4 Corner Zone Dynamic Transition Game

PART 3: INFLUENTIAL FIGURES: THE EVOLUTION OF TIKI TAKA
1. The Tiki Taka Football Philosophy
2. The Evolution Of Tiki Taka Football
2.1. The 12 Men Who Changed Football the Most
3. Archie Mclean
3.1. From Paisley To Sao Paolo
4. Uruguay 1930
4.1. From Paisley To Sao Paolo
5. Matthias Sindelar
5.1. The World,s First Great ‘False 9,
6. La Maquina And Evolution,s Path
6.1. Renato Cesarini& José MarÍa Minella
7. The Magnificent Magyars
7.1. Gusztáv Sebes
8. Maslov,s Pressing Approach
9. Rinus Michels
9.1. The Architect of Total Football
10. Valeriy Lobanovskyi
10.1. The Science of His Pressing Approach
11. Johan Cruyff
11.1. The Father or Son of Total Football?
12. Louis Van Gaal
13. Frank Rijkaard
14. Pep Guardiola
14.1. The Great Exhibition
14.2. Guardiola,s Transitional Diagram (4-3-3 Or The W-W With Full Backs Further Forward Turning Into A 2-1-4-3 Or The M-M)
14.3. Guardiola,s In Possession System Diagram (2-1-4-3, 3-4-3 Or The M-M)
14.4. Guardiola,s Team Formation: Players Roles And Responsibilities
14.5. Lionel Messi
14.6. The Foundations Of Guardiola,s Playing Style: Barcelona,s Youth Development System& The Club
14.7. Life After Pep Guardiola: Tito Vilanova

PART 4: TIKI TAKA TACTICAL THEORY
Making Sense Of Tiki Taka And The Basic Principles
What Are the Variables of Tiki Taka Football?
What Are the “Non-Variables” of Tiki Taka Football?
Creating Goal Scoring Opportunities
Themes of the Development History of Tiki Taka
1. The Spatial Positional System And Concept Of ‘Formation,
1.1. Template for Coaches to Plot Out Their Formation
1.2. Positional Systems
1.3. The Tiki Taka Positional System Template
1.4. Ajax,s Positional System under Van Gaal
1.5. Barcelona,s Positional System under Guardiola
1.6. Summary of Ajax and Barcelona,s Positional System
1.7. Brendan Rogers and the Positional System of Play
1.8. Marcelo Bielsa,s Positional Play
1.9. The Importance of Positioning to Tiki Taka
2. The Transition Differentials
2.1. Regaining Possession, a FC Barcelona Case Study
2.2. Liverpool F.C. Coach Interview: Regaining Possession
3. The Art Of Collective Pressing
3.1. The 6 Second Rule
3.2. Liverpool F.C. Coach Interview: Pressing
3.3. FC Barcelona: Preparing for the Negative Transition while in Possession High Up the Pitch
3.4. FC Barcelona: Effective 6 Second Pressing High Up the Pitch
3.5. How 3 Players Can Successfully Press 5
4. Ball Circulation
4.1. Barcelona USA: A Youth Development Success Story
4.2. Training to Create Habits
5. The Attacking Attitudes
5.1. PREMIER LEAGUE ANALYSIS: Location of Goals Scored 2011/12 (%) Diagram
5.2. PREMIER LEAGUE ANALYSIS: Location of the Assists 2011/12 (%) Diagram
5.3. Assessing the Statistics
5.4. Villarreal: A Case Study
5.5. Comparing Swansea City and FC Barcelona,s Possession Based Philosophies
6. Defensive Organisation: The Block
6.1. The 3 Types of ‘Block,
7. The Conclusion Of The Footballing States And Their Relationships.
8. The Individual Basic Tasks
8.1. Case Study: A Typical 4-3-3 into a 3-4-3
8.2. (1) The Sweeper Goalkeeper
8.3. (2& 3) The Wing Backs
8.4. (4& 5) The Central Defenders
8.5. THE MIDFIELD TRIO (6, 8, 10): (6) The Controller (Defensive Midfielder)
8.6. (8) The Second Controller or Central Midfield Playmaker
8.7. (10) The Box to Box or Advanced Central Midfielder
8.8. THE ATTACKING TRIO (7, 11& 9): (7& 11) The Inside Forwards
8.9. (9) The False 9 or Central Striker
9. Tactical Solutions And Variations Of The Form
9.1. Tactical Problem 1: Struggling to Control Possession and Build up from the Back from a Goal Kick.
9.1.1. Playing From The Defence Through To The Midfield.
9.2. Tactical Problem 2: The opposition are sitting in a deep low block (also known as “Parking the Bus”) and it has become increasingly difficult to find spaces to penetrate further forward
9.2.1. ‘The False Touch, – Example
9.3. Tactical Problem 3: The profile of players available to you make it increasingly difficult to control the games through the theoretical 4-3-3 (3-4-3) and requires a positional system that still provides the options both in attack and to play out from the back
9.4. Tactical Problem 4: You have set your midfield up with 2 controllers and 1 number 10 further forward. Your team have a lot of possession but are struggling to play passes forward and control possession in the final third
9.5. Tactical Problem 5: You find that your defensive line is too slow to play with the high line necessary for the theoretical system of play and is suffering under the pressure of quicker strikers
10. Wigan Athletic Fc Case Study
Developing a Possession Game
10.1. Through the Coach:
10.2. Through the Player:
10.2.1. The Process of Possession (Ball Circulation)
10.2.2. The Attacking Transition
10.2.3. The Defensive Transition
10.2.4. The Process of Being Out of Possession (Defensive Block)
10.2.5. Conclusion

FINAL THOUGHTS: A SHORT REFLECTIVE MESSAGE