TACTICAL PERIODIZATION
• “There is traditional training, which is analytical; and there is
integrated training, which involves training with a ball, but the main
concerns are not very different from traditional training. Then there is
my way of training, the “TACTICAL PERIODIZATION”, which has got
nothing to do with the other two, although a lot of people think it has”.
Conventional Periodization
• Division and separation
of the training process in:
physical, technical,
psychological and
tactical training.
The physical shape is essential
• Forget all of the previous and
CONVENTIONAL concepts and methods!
• It’s a totally different way/approach of
seeing FOOTBALL AND COACHING
• We don’t say that the other methodologies
are wrong… we say that TP it’s totally
different and also valid…
TACTICAL PERIODIZATION
• «I’m a believer in working on everything, in not
separating out the physical, technical, tactical and
psychological components, I don’t know where the
physical side begins and the tactical and psychological
aspects end. In my opinion, all of it is important in
football, and I can’t make the distinction».
What is the TACTIC?
Group of BEHAVIOURS that we wish the team to
demonstrate in matches, regularly
Host of PRINCIPLES that embody our way of
playing
Specific behavioral CULTURE… unique!
That requires TRAINING and
LEARNING!!
Emerging quality
So, it is an…
“The more important for a team in football
it’s to have a PLAYING MODEL, a hole of
principles that guarantee organization to
my team.”
Sistemof play
CLUB CULTURE
PLAYING MODEL
PRINCIPLES andsub-principles
of play
4 Moments of the Game
Players
COACHE’S GAME
IDEAL
CREATED
Country
Club actual
situation
INTERACTION
Facilities
The Organization of a team involves…
Individuals
Experience/background
skills
PLAYING MODEL
The playing model is, essentially, a complex
of collective and individual references
A set of instructions for them team as a
whole
Conceived by the manager– the leader of
the process : that’s why there isn't a unique football-
there are many stiles of play, many conceptions of the game
PRINCIPLES OF PLAY
Those REFERENCES are the…
The principles of the game are BEHAVIORAL
REFERENCES, collective or individual, that
we pretend the team to evidence on the
different moments of the game
PRINCIPLES of PLAY
They ensure that collective co-ordination
happens with a certain degree of regularity,
getting people working together.
They are in-action ideas that give organization
to the team
They provide the team with a certain
degree of organization.
The team organization it’s something that
emerges from the systematic respect of a
group of values or Principles
So…
in the different MOMENTS OF THE GAME
Players thinking the same kind of things at
the same time.TEAM
“What is my concept of team?
One where in a certain moment, faced with
a certain situation, all of the players think
in the same way. This is my idea of a team.
This is only possible with time, hard-work
and composure..”
“The most important thing for a team is to
have a certain MODEL, certain PRINCIPLES,
and to know and interpret them well,
regardless of the players that are being
used. Essentially, that’s what I call the
ORGANIZATION OF THE GAME.”
FOUR MOMENTS of the game
Offensive Organization
ORGANIZATION WHERE?
GAME
Attacking Transition
Defensive TransitionDefensive Organization
• “A team which, through its defensive way of playing, has chaotic positional
sense, can only be a very mobile team when it gains possession of the ball.
In other words, because of this positional confusion, it’s a team that wins
possession of the ball and has to stretch the play. So for me, a team that
wants to have sustained periods of attacking, to have possession of the ball,
to take the initiative, has to be a team which is always well positioned and
you can only achieve this by defending zonally”.
• “The transition from defence to attack has to bear an intimate relationship
with our attacking way of play. When a team presses so high up the pitch,
the players need to rest during the match. And what’s best? Resting with the
ball or without the ball? I want my team to know how to rest with the ball,
and knowing how to rest with the ball means having sound positional sense.
It involves the players taking up space sensibly and having the ability to
hold on to the ball for a certain period of time when the objective is not to
play deep and move quickly towards the opposition’s goal”.
OFFENSIVE ORGANIZATION
Behaviours that the coach pretends when
the team as the ball
Video
OFFENSIVE ORGANIZATION
Principle: Ball possession and circulation
Objective to pursue by the Team:
Disorganize and unbalance the opponent defensive structure,
with the intention of creating and take advantage of spaces
that allow us to create chances and score goal(s).
OFFENSIVE ORGANIZATION
Principle: Ball possession and circulation
Some SubPrinciples:
Good positional game lines
. Creation of many (transversal and longitudinal), triangles and diamonds, diagonal lines of pass
Privilege the circulation, instead of the transport of the ball
Alternate the type of pass (short and long) and change corridor
Quality of pass. Privilege tense… Pass (short or long)
OFFENSIVE ORGANIZATION
After training, exercising, repeating…
OFFENSIVE TRANSITION
The moment when our team RECOVERS the
ball.
Video
OFFENSIVE TRANSITION
Principle: Assure the ball possession
Objective to pursue by the Team:
Take advantage of the defensive disorganization of the
opponent team to create goal opportunities or to start swift
and safely our offensive organization.
OFFENSIVE TRANSITION
Some SubPrinciples:
Get the ball out of the pressing zone
Decide between…
. Making the game move quickly forward (if it is possible
to take advantage of the disorganization of the opponent
team, without running risks of losing the ball)
. Stabilizing the possession – get into Offensive
Organization
Principle: Assure the ball possession
OFFENSIVE TRANSITION
Video
After training, exercising, repeating…
DEFENSIVE TRANSITION
The moment when our team loses the ball
Video
DEFENSIVE TRANSITION
Principle: Pressure over the ball and closer spaces
Objective to pursue by the Team:
Take advantage of the disorganization of opponent’s
offensive, to recover the ball or to organize the team
defensively.
DEFENSIVE TRANSITION
Principle: Pressure over the ball and closer spaces
Some subprinciples:
Change of attitude (“click”) – pressing and aggressive attitude
Aggressiveness over the ball with intelligence and lucidity –
don’t get too close, don’t knock down, don’t try to take over
the ball uncovered.
Close the team lines immediately
DEFENSIVE TRANSITION
Video
After training, exercising, repeating…
DEFENSIVE ORGANIZATION
Behaviours when our team DOESN´T have
the ball
Video
DEFENSIVE ORGANIZATION
Principle: Zonal pressing
Objective to pursue by the Team:
Condition, direct and pressure the opponent team with the
objective of causing the mistake and gaining the ball
possession.
DEFENSIVE ORGANIZATION
Principle: Zonal pressing
Some subprinciples:
Closing in on spaces as a team to condition the opponent team, the closest possible to the opponent goal
“Small field” (width and depth), which is, small and narrow field, with collective sweeping, in accordance with the position of the ball (dynamic block)
. Diagonal trajectories in the sweeping movements
Constant pressing attitude over the carrier of the ball. Intelligence and lucidity in the way how you are aggressive
DEFENSIVE ORGANIZATION
Video
After training, exercising, repeating…
To Mourinho and in what concerns Tactical Periodization, COACHING is…
OPERATE the coaches ideal of game
Ever since the first day of practicing, and along the
whole competitive process, the coach seeks obsessively
a qualitative growth of the team, and of each one of its
players, as far as the collective performance is
concerned;
Every exercise of the training period aim to achieve
this learning, throughout the systematical repetition of
specific behaviors of the built playing model.
Principles and articulation of principles
What we work on daily…
To experience these to the utmost implies, consequently, specific adaptations at the psychological, physical and technical levels
This is not about neglecting any of the dimensions of the game, but rather to subordinate them to that which isfundamental for the team’s performance: the organization of the game
In contemplating the tactical supradimension, we gathers
the remaining dimensions of the game. All this according to
a specific context, or better put, proportional to the
demands of his playing.
THAT WHICH IS TACTICAL, IS NOT NECESSARILLY
TECNHICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL NOR PHYSICAL… BUT IT
NEEDS THOSE FACTORS TO MAKE A STATEMENT!
“For example, instead of developing “strength” in an
isolated manner, we do it instead through exercises with
certain characteristics, playing with the space, the time,
the number of players and the rules we put in to it. By
doing it this way, there’s no doubt that we’re also
developing something related to “strength” but we’re
doing it in a much more specific context. A tactical and
technical exercise involving lots of jumping, lots of falls,
lots of stops and starts and lots of changes of direction is
much more important than another one where you’re just
working on “strength” in an isolated form or in a way in
which it has been taken out of context. !”
Multidisciplinary SciencesSystemic/holistic approach
Neurosciences Biochemistry
Chronobiology
Dynamic systems theory Chaos Theory
Fractal Geometry Eco-genetics
Thermodynamics Systemic Modulation
Topology Biomechanics Anatomy
Physiology Anthropology
Psychology Sociology Biology
Physics Cybernetic Poetry...
Methodological Principles
Major principle of Specificity
Principle of Horizontal Alternation in Specificity
Principle of Complex Progression
Principle of Propensities
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GAMEDay off
Session Session Session Session Session GAME
Weekly Training Model
Two plans that exist in total connection and interdependence
«Mental-emotional» «Physical»
Tactical Fatigue
(central)
Physical fatigue
(peripheral )
«Mental-Emotional» FATIGUE
Practicing / Playing
(Thinking… To make decisions constantly)
Tactical/Decisional focus
“The most relevant fatigue in football is the central
(CNS) and not the physical fatigue.
The central fatigue results from the capacity of
being focused and, for instance, of reacting
immediately and in a coordinate way to the moment
of loss of ball possession.”
“It is it hard for me to sleep after the game, it is
hard to get up, it is hard to focus, it is hard to plan
out, it is hard to think, it is hard to practice and, on
those sessions, I spend more time walking back and
forward, then training. The same happens with the
players. (…) On the physiological point of view it is
better to practice on the day after the game… but
the players don’t like it and they don’t feel well.
It is best for the “body”, but worse for the mind.
And we do have to look at this matter from a global
point of view!”
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GAMEDAY OFF
TACTICAL PURPOSES... GAME
SPECIFICITY !!!
Weekly Training Model
Daily concerns
Define concrete and directed OBJECTIVES;
Chose the contents (exercises) with criteria;
Direct the orientation of the contents concerning the
objectives;
Select and decide the action strategies to theoptimization and efficiency of the training session
Be open minded to change what might be necessary.
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GAME OFF ARS Session Session Session RIC GAME
TUES - Active Recovery in Specificity
SAT – Active Recovery in an Introduction to Competition context
Space Time Complexity Exercises Non acquisitive
Weekly Training Model
TUESDAY
Emotional consumption -
Non continuous +
SUB-PRINCIPLES…
SATURDAY
Emotional Consumption -/+
Non Continuous ++
SUBPRINCIPLES…
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GAME OFF RAE ETE Sessio Sessio RAIC GAME
Space Time Number Complexity
Exercises Acquisitive
Purposes under specific elevated tension regime
Weekly Training Model
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GAME Folga RAE ETE DESessio
nRAIC GAME
Purposes under specific dynamics regime
Space Time Number
Complexity Exercises Acquisitive
Weekly Training Model
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Game Folga RAE ETE DE EVC RAIC GAME
Purposes under high speed contraction regime
Espaço Duração Complexidade Exercícios Aquisitivo
Weekly Training Model
“Everything is related to the way in which we practice. We don’t
have room for physical training; for traditional endurance,
strength or speed training. It’s really all about behaviour! We
work on our playing model, we work on our playing principles
and playing sub-principles, we ensure that the players adapt to
ideas that are common to all, as a means of establishing the
same behavioural language. We work exclusively on the
match situations that interest me, we plan the week according
to our thinking on recovery time, training and matches,
progressiveness and alternation. We create habits with the
aim of maintaining the team’s fitness, which manifests itself in
ensuring we are frequently “playing well”.
“It is a fact that many have had and continue to have
success while training differently from me. Now, it is also a
fact that I think differently and, that besides managing to
reach my goals, my ideas also please the players.
As I used to say: the players don’t love me…
They love working with me!”
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