Passing Warm-Ups

Direct from Guardiola, Simeone,
Ancelotti, Emery, Sarri & Heynckes

This is your chance to practice and apply technical-tactical passing warm-up practices taken directly from the training sessions of Pep Guardiola, Diego Simeone, Carlo Ancelotti, Unai Emery, Mauizio Sarri, and Jupp Heynckes, so you can learn from the best and improve your training sessions.

Top teams and coaches use passing warm-ups which incorporate key technical and tactical elements that progress into the main part of the session, so your players are always developing their technical ability and tactical understanding.

Develop your players:

• Passing pattern repetitions
• Decision making
• Positional play
• Prepared for all tactical game situations

The FIRST part of the book

Written by Fausto Garcea (former Technical Manager at Empoli FC), analyses the basic principles of activation and warm-ups:

• Warm-Ups: Essential Aspects and Scientific Findings
• Unopposed, Technical Opposed, and Global Practices
• Physical, Psychological, and Subliminal Activation
• Technical-Tactical Warm-ups: Tactical Principles and Shapes

The SECOND part of the book

Put together by Daniele Zini (UEFA A Licence), is the result of a long process to observe and learn the warm-up practices used by some of the world's best coaches

Practice and apply technical-tactical warm-up practices from some of the world's best coaches

Key Stats

148 Pages

Full Colour Print

70 Practices

U10-Pro Level

12 Tactical Examples

12 Tactical Examples including:

• Rhombus Shape - Tactical Example 3: One-Two, Forward Pass + Lay-off for Teammate when Pressed
• Triangle Shape - Tactical Example 2: One-Two + Third Man Run to Receive in Behind Defensive Line
• Link Play and Decision Making - Example 2: One-Two, Through Pass + Diagonal Pass into Feet

70 Practices including:

• Pep Guardiola - Complex Support Play Circuit with Triangle Tactical Patterns
• Diego Simeone - "Double Triangle" Combinations with Forward Movements to Receive
• Carlo Ancelotti - Progressing the Play Using Inside Support with "Give and Go"
• Unai Emery - Quick Combination, Through Pass, Check Away + Incisive Third Man Run
• Mauizio Sarri - Forward Pass and Move to Support + "Give and Go" with Overlap"
• Jupp Heynckes - Triple One-Two with Forward Pass (Open Up) + "Give and Go" Overlap