Beat the Press With a Box Midfield - Build Up Play and Sessions from Guardiola, Alonso and Arteta's Tactics Paperback – April 28, 2025

This book analyses how Guardiola, Alonso, and Arteta build play under pressure - and provides tactical detail and ready-to-use training sessions to help you coach those methods with your own team.UEFA 'A' Licence Coach and award-winning author Athanasios Terzis delivers a detailed tactical analysis, with structured solutions and 47 practices across 7 ready-to-use session plans - making it easy to apply modern build-up principles in your sessions right away and see the difference on the pitch.What You'll Gain as a Coach: Play through high presses using structured box midfield rotationsCreate overloads in key areas to break pressure and progress playExploit space with coordinated movements and passing combinationsBuild from the goalkeeper into the final third with control and intentWhat's inside?Tactical solutions for building up play against different pressing and defending stylesProven models for both 3-at-the-back and 2-at-the-back box midfield build-up systems47 detailed training practices with progressions to simulate match-day pressureStep-by-step coaching points and progressions to build team intelligence in possessionPosition-specific detail to improve player decision making and timing Read more