• 124 Pages
• FULLCOLOUR Print
• 9 Game Situations
• 9 Sessions
• 35 Practices
• U14-Pro Level

• Step 1: Provide a free passing option for the goalkeeper
• Step 2: Move the ball to the target or free player
• Step 3: Create a numerical advantage in specific areas of the pitch
• Step 4: Take advantage (exploit) the numerical advantage

Each chapter has extensive analysis for a tactical situation based on Marcelo Bielsa’s tactics and is then followed by a full session to help all coaches adapt the tactics into training sessions for their team.

• Chapter 1: Building Up Play from the Back Against 2 Forwards
• Chapter 2: Moving the Ball to the Target Player on the Weak Side
• Chapter 3: Building Up Play from the Back Against 1 Forward
• Chapter 4: Creating and Exploiting 3 v 2 Situations Near the Sideline
• Chapter 5: Attacking Solutions with a 3 v 3 Situation Near the Sideline
• Chapter 6: Creating and Exploiting Space in a 4 v 3 (or 4 v 4) Situation Around the Ball Area
• Chapter 7: Building Up Play Against Ultra-Offensive Pressing

Pep Guardiola

“My admiration for Marcelo Bielsa is huge because he makes the players much, much better.”

“Still, I didn’t meet one guy, a former player from Marcelo Bielsa who speaks badly about him. They are grateful for his influence on their careers in football.”

“He helped me a lot with his advice. Whenever I speak with him, I always feel like he wants to help me.”

“It is important for me to say this about Marcelo because it doesn’t matter how many titles he had in his career. We are judged by that – how much success we have, how many titles we have won. But that is much less influential than how he has influenced football and his football players.”

“That is why, for me, he is the best coach in the world. I am looking forward to seeing him in Lille next season. I am pretty sure his influence on their team, their club and their players will be huge – amazing.”

“He is one of the best managers in the world.”

“There is no doubt that he had an effect on me. He helped me to mature when I was starting my career at Newell’s, he helped me in the national team, and he’s continued to help me in my coaching career.”

“We’re followers of Bielsa and of the way he plays the game, but comparisons are unfair, because we’re talking about one of the best.”

“People always think that by hiring one of us, they’re getting a Bielsa clone, but Marcelo is one of a kind.”

“I’ve always been a fan of Bielsa, who was just starting out as a coach as my playing career was drawing to a close.”

“Straight away I warmed to his personality and I take great pride in being compared to him.”