#TecumsehTalks - Anjo Coppus Presentation Part 1 and 2 (Tactical Periodization for Your Soccer) Part 1 Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/dHGYVmC8KSA Part 2 Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/wsxJLaI_ZE4

1. Oirschot – Venray 2020
VIEW ON FOOTBALL:
LET THEM PLAY!
By: Anjo Coppus
A didactical periodization for football
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2. LET THEM PLAY!
Introduction:
The Netherlands – Dutch
Bachelor in Sports Education (PE teacher for 18 yrs)
40 years playing for SV Venray (1 club)
25 years coaching
- SV Venray (am, all age groups u5-u19)
- VVV Venlo (pro, u11, u12, u13, u15)
- VV brabantia Head of youth the academy
- 5x Summercamps for Eurotech (3-21 yrs old age groups)
- Coerver and Total Soccer Method licensed coach
- Uefa C + B, NSCAA youth diploma
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3. LET THEM PLAY!
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4. LET THEM PLAY!
Frank Jacobs
U11 playfield
• 1-3-1-3
• Against better teams
• Children
• - 5 years experience
• Equally developed
• Play smart to win
• How to practise?
• Development started…ended with a book.
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5. LET THEM PLAY!
Johan Cruyff
A brief history of soccer development in the Netherlands:
Wiel Coerver (Coever Method ‘70’s) Raymond Verheijen (Guide to footbalfitness ‘97)
Bert van Lingen (Coaching youthplayers ‘97) Louis van Gaal (Dutch FA)
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6. Football is simple. Play football simple is difficult.
What is behind this phrase? Why is football so simple, yet complex?
What parts play a role if improving players is your goal?
What should I take into account when I want to create a learning environment?
The next slide’s im gonna take you through glimpses of my view on football.
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7. Coerver tought us: LET THEM PLAY!
BALL MASTERY: 1 player 1 ball. Repetition ball control exercises with both feet.
RECEIVING / PASSING: Exercises and games to improve 1st touch, so important at all levels, and to encourage
accurate and creative passing.
MOVES 1 V 1: Exercises and games that teach game winning individual moves and create space against packed
defenses
SPEED: Exercises and games to improve agility, acceleration and power with and without the ball.
FINISHING: Exercises and games that improve technique and encourage instinctive play around the goal.
GROUP ATTACK: Exercises and games that improve small group play with an emphasis on Fast Break Attacks
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8. LET THEM PLAY!
Verheijen tought us:
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9. LET THEM PLAY!
Vitor Frade tought me:
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10. Tactical Periodisation started with visiting FC Porto.
I talked to Vitor Frade, Pepijn Lijnders and Luis Castro.
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11. LET THEM PLAY!
We as coaches have to know why players make decisions in the field.
Have a look at the video and try to answer the ‘why?’ question if like you
were coaching this player.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbGw_ODwPvU
Football moments a coach never thought of happening and
That never was practiced before.

13. To make football simple, I broke the game down into 10 guidelines:
1: When you play, compete to win.
2: If your team does not have the ball, take it away from your opponent.
3: If you have the ball, score the goal.
4: If you can’t score, pass it to a teammate.
5: If you want to play together, you have to understand each other.
6: When you don’t win the game, you’ve made (to many) wrong decisions.
7: When you win, you played better then your opponent.
8: When you lose a lot of games, your opponents are to good.
9: When you train, train to get better.
10: The better you train, the faster your progression will be.
This is my training filosophy. It’s a mindset I try to create within the team.
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14. Football is difficult when we look at the next slide.
Because football is difficult I’ve made the slide complex. Step
by step, just like my methodology things will get more clear.
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15. The coach creates
the environment
A player is a product of this environment
(culture)
Reach a higher efficiency
Coaches have the responsibility to
provide oppertunities for a player to
develope.
- In mentality
- In stamina
- In willpower Different for every player
Look – position - think Technical skill
Cooperation
Tactical skill(execute game idea)
What basis is
essential for
development?
Lots of repetition
Repair mistakes
Talent Right game idea Creativity
Players that
explore
their limits
Think (along) in
the game
- Deal with complexity
- Deal with pressure
Play for hours Create the difference
Good hours
Succes!What type of
players do I
need to win
games?
How do i transfer
the game idea into
principles?
Attack
Defend
Numbers up
Numbers down
8 progressive steps
that simulate the
game in a time frame.
4 elements
of the game
as basis
More/better possession
More/better oppertunities
More/better goals
This takes time
Natural part of
development
Fast footwork
Passing
Teamplay (positioning)
Game
What game idea
stimulates development
in my team?
Objectives
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16. Translated to tactical periodization, I work with 4 game like simulations:
In-game simulations:
• Defending at opponent’s half
• Attacking at own half
• Defending at own half
• Attacking at opponent’s half
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Practise workout:
• Defending is easy, we know what is gonna happen
• Attacking is easy, because we know what we can do
• Defending is difficult, you’ll play numbers down
• Attacking is difficult, you have to surprise the opponent
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17. All the
principles
that come forward from
a game and are used in
practise and matches.
This is what I coach
throughout a season.
Don’t worry…we’ll have a
closer look in a minute
LET THEMPLAY!
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18. (Main)principles (team): LET THEM PLAY!
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19. Subprinciples (defensive, midfield, offensive lines ): LET THEM PLAY!
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20. sub-subprinciples (individual): LET THEM PLAY!
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21. LET THEM PLAY!
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Part 2: The transfer from game to practise

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• Sarribal:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeT8XhW6o5k&t=19s

23. TACTICAL PERIODIZATION LET THEM PLAY!
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24. TACTICAL PERIODIZATION (REGULAR WEEK)
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25. TACTICAL PERIODIZATION 2X PRACTISES LET THEM PLAY!
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26. Didactical conditions:
- In-game simulations
- Players learn both knowingly and unknowingly
- Tactics are superior, technique is guiding
- Teach players to think along in in-game simulations
- Teach players how to communicate about the excersises
- Use teamwork to reach a certain goal
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27. Practical conditions:
- Use as much principles as possible (unknowingly)
- Game like practise:
* use 1 bal during excersie
* use the rules/find borders/cross borders (mindset)
* numbers up – numbers down
* provide space for sollutions (no boundries)
* Repetiotion, but not in a row
* lots of change in positions
* after the exercise an end result must be provided
- High difficulty rate: They must be able to just or just not reach it
- Coach guidance: Controled (they can’t– to complex),
to guided (can do some- challenge),
to independant (they can – complex to others).
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28. Practical conditions:
A
B
A1
A2
B1
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29. Exercises explained:
Old way (simple, guided):
- Warm up
- Fun rondo (Dutch rondo)
- Phsyical Coordination
(stamina)
- Dribble
- Passing/kicking
- Positionplay (US rondo’s)
- Finishing
- Small sided games
- Matchday
My way (complex, independent):
- Rondo (w-up 1)
- Fast footwork (w-up 2):
a: Phys. Coordination
b: Football coordination
- Sub
subprincipes
- Sub
subprincipes
Principles (focus):
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30. TECHNIQUE: RONDO (DUTCH)
– 9v3 – 5v34v1 - 3v1 – 9v2 – 6v2 – 4v230/38

31. TECHNIQUE: FAST FOOTWORK
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32. EXERCISES EXPLAINED
Old way (simple, guided):
- Warm up
- Fun rondo (Dutch rondo)
- Phsyical Coordination
(stamina)
- Dribble
- Passing/kicking
- Positionplay (US rondo’s)
- Finishing
- Small sided games
- Matchday
My way (complex, independent):
- Rondo (w-up 1)
- Fast footwork (w-up 2):
a: Phys. Coordination
b: Football coordination
- Sub subprinciples
- Sub subprinciples
Principles (focus):
- Passing
- Teamplay
- Subprinciples
- Subprinciples
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33. TECHNIQUE: PASSING
Stap 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 533/38

34. TECHNIQUE: TEAMPLAY
Stap 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 - 534/38

35. EXERCISES EXPLAINED
Old way (simple, guided):
- Warm up
- Fun rondo (Dutch rondo)
- Phsyical Coordination
(stamina)
- Dribble
- Passing/kicking
- Positionplay (US rondo’s)
- Finishing
- Small sided games
- Matchday
My way (complex, independent):
- Rondo (w-up 1)
- Fast footwork (w-up 2):
a: Phys. Coordination
b: Football coordination
- Sub subprinciples
- Sub subprinciples
Principles (focus):
- Passing
- Teamplay
- Subprinciples
- Subprinciples
- In game simulations (TP)
- Matchday
- Main principles
- Main principles
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36. DIOH
Defending: 2 main in-game moments
DIYOH
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37. AIYOH
Attacking: 2 main in-game moments
AIOH
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4 ingame moments as a whole. The end picture.
https://youtu.be/sM4gGP8_YO8
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39. Thank you very much and stay in touch!
Youtube : anjocoppus
Mail : info@anjocoppus.nl
Website : www.anjocoppus.nl
Book wil be out in 2021!
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