COACHING POSITIONAL PLAY

An online course for football / soccer coaches at all levels.

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  • "A very valuable course to help players learn to solve problems on the field."

    CASEY SCHAFFER

  • "The course truly focuses how you can be better for the protagonist, the player!"

    MARC CASTILLO

  • "The amount of 'lightbulb moments' I've had is worth the price and time invested alone."

    ADAM FORTWENGLER

  • "I have learned so much from this course!"

    WALTER MERINO

  • "The more I listen, the more I get out of it."

    TOM GASS

  • "This course is a must for coaches who believe in the Positional Play methodology."

    ARTURO HOYOS

  • "I will watch it many more times as I usually get something new each time."

    DAVID ROBB

  • "I encourage others to experience this course - its perspective changing."

    ERIC JOHNSON

  • "What this offered to me that no other course has before - clarity ."

    NATE JACKSON

  • "This course really helped me understand the value of simplicity in football."

    HANNES VÄRS

  • "This course gives an understanding of the game to be better facilitators the players."

    ARMAND GARCIA

  • "A solid framework and philosophy to build into your team's game."

    SCOT LOVETT

  • "I really enjoyed this course - Very thought-provoking content."

    HUTTON SHARP

  • "I like how things were explained and all the practical tools that were provided."

    OMAR GUTIERREZ

  • "There's a lot out there on positional play but there are very few explaining its practical application in this much quality."

    EMRAH BAYDUN

  • "This course provided lots of value both in knowledge and real-world application."

    ROSS MILLER

  • "Objective Knowledge with a proper sequences for everyone at any level."

    ABDELRAHMAN EL ZUGHBY

  • "THIS course left me pausing to write down key points - NEVER WANTING IT TO END."

    JAMES COCKRELL

  • "THIS COURSE really changed the "lens" through which I saw the game - totally enriching and timeless."

    RODRIGO RENE

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  • Believe Positional Play will help your players but are overwhelmed about how to successfully train it?

  • Are a youth coach stuck coaching lots of concepts but still feeling you’re not making any progress?

  • Are a college coach looking to simplify your methods to see consistent results?

  • Are an elite coach who has knowledge of Positional Play but want to make it more applicable for your team through a clear framework?

  • Got into coaching to help players, but now you’re unsure if this is even the right job for you?

  • Want more than anything to find some clarity and confidence in your training methods?

Instead of coaching through a unified framework which connects everything back to the game, you are endlessly coaching isolated concepts. This most likely has caused you to doubt yourself as a coach, going down the rabbit hole of new training sessions to try out.

At the core, this is coaching which is not connected to the needs of your players.

It’s coaching at your players rather than with your players. 

Know this: You Are Not Alone.

The Coaching Positional Play course will give you tools to:

✔ Critically observe your matches to know what your players need.

✔ Intentionally create training sessions based on your players’ needs.

✔ Effectively deliver your training sessions to help your players grow.

✔ Confidently lead your team through the ups and downs of a season.

The Coaching Positional Play course will help you:

✔Provide the best possible football experience where the players are the problem-solving protagonists.

✔ Gain clarity in identifying and solving problems so you can be a composed and poised leader in the face of adversity.

✔ Possess a clear understanding and application a style of Positional Play that develops Self-Regulating players.

Positional Play is a model that is used to develop game understanding through the starting point of football, Positioning.

This course provides you a simplified lens to approach your coaching that will help you connect your training to game experiences so that your players can develop a deeper understanding of soccer / football.

We all want to achieve the same thing, the best possible experience for our players to learn the game. This course can help you achieve that. 

“THIS POSITIONAL PLAY COURSE CHANGED MY VIEW OF FOOTBALL AS A COACH.”

Get 16 video modules broken down into bite-sized chunks

  • Section One

    A warm welcome to the course

    • Welcome (1:36)

    • Course Breakdown (2:46)

  • Section Two

    We dig into some foundational knowledge to understand our ‘why’.

    • Systems Theory (3:30)

    • Complex Systems (3:48)

  • Section Three

    We begin to apply our foundation theories to soccer / football.

    • Systems Theory Applied To Football (8:10)

    • Self-Organization In Football (6:10)

  • Section four

    We look at how we have to change our ‘lens’ to make real changes.

    • Traditional Focus Vs Systems Focus (7:00)

  • SECTION FIVE

    We take a look at how by better understanding the hierachy of the game, we can better understand how we interact within it.

    • Complex Training Environments (4:31)

  • SECTION SIX

    We break down the essential components of the game.

    • The Game (4:04)

    • Football Theory (11:18)

  • SECTION SEVEN

    We take a deeper dive into the different moments of the game.

    • Team Functions and Football Language (7:16)

    • 📖 Sub-Stages of Team Functions (3:32) PDF Included

    • Order and Predictability (2:51)

    • 📖 Team Principles (4:40) PDF Included

  • SECTION Eight

    We discover the IJAS practical tools which will be the basis for the rest of the course.

    • Interactions (3:29)

    • 📖 Dynamic Spaces (5:40) PDF Included

    • 📖 IJAS Steps (5:11) PDF Included

    • Tools for Young Players (2:10)

  • SECTION NINE

    We review how the foundational theories will serve us when applying it to soccer / football.

    • Positional Play - The Practical Application of a System Model (5:22)

  • SECTION TEN

    We break down what Positional Play is and how it’s going to help our players.

    • What is Positional Play? (6:45)

  • SECTION ELEVEN

    We break down attacking using the IJAS steps.

    • Converting Goals (4:38)

    • Creating Goals (4:02)

    • Attacking - Step 1 (4:07)

    • Attacking - Step 2 (3:10)

    • Attacking - Step 3 (2:59)

    • Attacking - Step 4 (4:45)

  • SECTION TWELVE

    We break down defending using the IJAS steps.

    • Defining Defending (5:37)

    • Defending - Step 1 (2:57)

    • Defending - Step 2 (1:17)

    • Defending - Step 3 (0:56)

    • Defending - Step 4 (2:00)

  • SECTION THIRTEEN

    We look at a fundamental principle human and player development.

    • Experience Before Reflection (6:34)

    • Learning by Doing (2:24)

  • SECTION FOURTEEN

    We delve into what it means to create impactful soccer / football situations for our players in training and how to help them improve.

    • Experience (3:12)

    • Effective and Ineffective Responses (2:13)

    • Chunking Tools to Recreate the Game (4:38)

    • Introduction to Reflection (2:13)

    • Reflecting For Training (10:05)

    • Reflecting In Training (3:21)

    • Reflecting On Training (1:55)

    • Considerations (5:33)

    • Training Activity Suggestions

  • SECTION FIFTEEN

    We walk through what it means to truly help your players understand the game and how to do that.

    • What Is Understanding? (5:40)

    • Reflective Coaching Framework (6:16)

  • SECTION SIXTEEN

    We close out with a reminder you’ll be coming back to over and over.

    • Football is Life (3:27)

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Questions or concerns? look no further.

  • This course was designed for coaches who are driven by the WHY behind things. There are many Positional Play courses out there that provide copy and paste solutions, this course does not. This course provides tools and language to empower you to develop methods for your specific context.

  • There are a total of 3 hours of course content. Additionally, there are over 12 hours of supplemental webinar content on all kinds of topics like training session design, the science of coaching, how to observe matches, and tactical topics.

  • Yes, you watch the video modules at your own pace. With the course you also have access to the It’s Just a Sport live webinars which you can attend or watch back at your own convenience.

  • Unlike most online courses, you have lifetime access to all of the course content. You will be able to go back and review all of the course material.

  • When you enroll in this course, you receive lifetime access to the WhatsApp group where you will be able to ask myself and other coaches any questions you may have.

  • Yes, if you're not completely satisfied with the experience, I will refund you 100% of your purchase.

  • Yes, upon finishing the course you will receive certificate of completion.

  • MARK CARR, SAN DIEGO WAVE, HEAD OF PLAYER SCOUTING

    "As coaches, we need to make things as simple as possible for our players and this course certainly does this- a no brainer for any coach.”

  • TIFFANY WEIMER, SPORTING CT GIRLS DIRECTOR

    “The course provides a framework and action plans to work from. It has helped me design sessions that are much more organized and specific. It's one of those courses you will keep going back to over time to refresh and re-energize what you do.”

  • Mutanda Kwesele, Blackhills FC DiRECTOR of coaching

    “The beauty of this course is in the way that David presents complex ideas in a simple way, thus allowing the learner to make connections to their own coaching environment. Being able to connect ideas from beyond football is crucial and this course does an excellent job of that. ”

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of coaching

LUKE GIBSON, CaiRn University Men’s Soccer Head COach

“The Coaching Positional Play course was massive in moments like these. It challenged me in how I communicated and helped so much in chunking the game between the lines/zones/steps, which players have grasped and have a fuller understanding of what we are trying to do. Many many thanks!”