Full Description
Applied Performance Analysis in Football: A Practical Guide for Coaches is a primary text for coaches and students wishing to develop their knowledge on 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 experienced in football coaching environments.
Drawing on contributions from both academics and practitioners in the subject of performance analysis and its use by coaches, Applied Performance Analysis 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 Student, BSc Football Coaching, MSc Performance Football Coaching and MSc Football Coaching as well as benefiting the coaches who undergo the Football Association coaching certificates.
Contents
Section 1: Performance Analysis in First Team Environments 1. The Evolving Role of Performance Analysis in Football 2. Technical Scouting in a 1st Team Environment 3. Professional Development in Performance Analysis 4. Case Study - Performance Analysis in Elite Football Section 2: 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 3: 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 Identification in Women's Football 13. The Development Of 'Coach Analysis' in a Category One Football Academy. Section 4: 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 5: Understanding the Political and Social Use of Performance Analysis in Football 17. Moving From a Player Monitoring Tool to Player Centered Performance Analysis 18. Performance Analysis to Inform the Retain Release Decision Making Process 19. Developing Relationship Between Coaches and Analysts 20. Half-Time Team Talks - Shifting the Focus away from the Coach's Voice.
