FC Barcelona - A Tactical Analysis: Attacking

Excellent Book. Highly recommend.

it contains excellent analysis of Barcelona's offensive. however it would have been nice if it included drills and/or progressive drills to train. The basis of this book purported for advanced coaches and teams.

I have a fair understanding of soccer and I know some books are better that others. But this one is a real joke. It met none of my expectations. The author starts by backing himself up by having viewed "all games in the 2010-2011 season creating a set of highly detailed notes on each." He says also that he watched some games over 20 times. At this point we say, wow, this is gonna be dense and well analysed. Wrong. It's bad. Where are those notes?? Chapter 2 is the philosophy of Barcelona, sounds awsome right? One puny little page. Then he explains some attacking techniques such as: "Pass and move combinations", kind of things we learn on every site of coaching youth soccer. The whole book is built on the same frame. One or two page per subject with some black and white images of fake players standing on the pitch and a bunch of arrows. The review of "mark szabo" is so true. It's a if I watched one game, put some drawings on paper, some arrows and some few (very few) general comments on it. That's it. That's the book. I would expect having more details explanations, some concepts, some quotes, something to read. Nop. The comments are so small and empty of content. You can find all what's presented in coaching youth soccer sites but in a far better way. It's a disappointing book, it's hard to image how. You will have a lot more on tactical analysis by looking at a game and by reading any coaching sites. I am wondering what the other customers learned with it.

My husband really likes this book. Very helpful for his job (soccer coach).

Excellent service and product; will buy again!

Save yourself the $... Just tape a Barcelona game, stop the video along the way, make a diagram of where the players are, then roll the video, stop, draw a diagram of where the players are.... If you know soccer, you are already aware of everything in the diagrams. If you don't know soccer then purchase a real book about coaching that actually explains the why of the movements (soccer coaching bible or something similar). Felt like I was reading a comic book when I was hoping for a worthy novel.

lots of spelling errors and other editorial errors in the book. most of the tactics can be seen in every game they play and don't really need to be drawn out for someone to understand them. the book doesn't explain why Barcelona do the things they do it just explains what they do. expected a lot more out of the bookstill a good book though and its great for people who are new to soccer tactics

Sehr gut und auch sehr zufrieden Ware mit ein sehr gute Qualität wie auch erwartetalso kann ich nur empfehlen.Danke

Très intéressant, bien détaillé.