Full Description
Performance Analysis and Coaches in Football: A Practical Guide for Coaches is a primary text for coaches and students wishing to develop their knowledge of how to utilise performance analysis to support their coaching practice.
Using case studies to offer real-world examples of how coaches can use different forms of performance analysis to support their role in first team environments, talent development environments and women's and girls' football, this new text is a fundamental guide for individuals studying and aspiring to work in applied football environments, offering a guide on how to use performance analysis to support player development and team performance in football. The book goes on to examine the way in which performance analysis can be used to support coach development and how it can be used to address some of the sociological issues in football coaching environments.
Drawing on contributions from both academics and practitioners in the subject of performance analysis, and its use by coaches, Performance Analysis and Coaches in Football highlights how coaches and analysts have worked collaboratively to ensure effective performance analysis processes are followed within football clubs.
This thoughtful and practical textbook is key reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses such as BA Football Studies, BSc Football Coaching, MSc Performance Football Coaching, and MSc Football Coaching as well as benefit coaches who undertake Football Association coaching certificates.
Contents
Section I: Performance Analysis in First Team Environments. 1. The Evolving Role of Performance Analysis in Football. 2. Technical Scouting in a First Team Environment. 3. Professional Development in Performance Analysis. 4. Case Study: Performance Analysis in Elite Football. Section II: Performance Analysis in Talent Development Environments. 5. Performance Analysis within the Elite Player Performance Plan. 6. Optimising the Quality of Information Required for Talent Management Decision-Making. 7. Pedagogical Delivery Strategies for Performance Analysis. 8. Case Study: Performance Analysis in Youth Football. 9. Performance Analysis and the Observation of Psychological Behaviours in Youth Football. 10. The Current State of Play: Performance Analysis in Women and Girl's Football. Section III: Performance Analysis in Girls and Women's Football. 11. Using Performance Analysis to Support Individual Player Development (Foundation Phase) in a Girls Talent Development Environment. 12. Utilising Performance Analysis for Talent ID in Women's Football. 13. The Development of "Coach Analysis" in a Category One Football Academy. Section IV: Performance Analysis for Coach Development. 14. Coaching Analysis. 15. Embedding Performance Analysis in Coach Development through the FA Youth Coach Developer Role. 16. Performance Analysis as an Embedded and Contextualised Coach Development Mechanism. Section V: Understanding the Political and Social Use of Performance Analysis in Football. 17. Moving from Player Monitoring to Player-Centred Analysis. 18. Using Performance Analysis to Inform Retain/Release Decisions. 19. Developing the Relationship between Coaches and Analysts. 20. Half-time Team Talks: Shifting the Focus Away from the Coach's Voice.
