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Lluis Cortés
Former FC Barcelona Women’s Coach and Saudi Arabia women’s National Team
9v9 Course
Who Is This Course For?
Youth Academy Coaches- Academy Managers
- Heads of Methodology
- Heads of Player Development
Why Choose this Course?
9-A-Side is an important stage in the player’s development, and where coaches often have the least guidance. Whether your team plays on a 7v7 field, an 11v11 field, or something in between, the 9v9 format has its own tactical demands. This course gives you a clear, practical roadmap for coaching it.
Theory you can see in action. Taught by Bernat Franquesa, co-founder of APFC alongside former La Masia director Albert Puig, this course goes beyond the tactics board. Every concept and collective principle is paired with real game footage of 9v9 players in the U.S. applying these principles, so you see exactly how the principles look with players your age group, on fields like yours.
Nearly two hours of focused content, across 8 chapters, designed so you can apply what you learn at your very next training session.
If you want your team to play with a clear identity and your players to make better decisions in every phase of the game, this is the course for you.
Course Curriculum
- Introduction(7:27)
- Build Up in 9v9(24:11)
- Create Inside Advantages to Progress(14:17)
- Exploiting the Outside Spaces to Progress(8:36)
- What happens when we find the Free Player?(13:54)
- Breaking Down the Low Block(11:28)
- High Pressure and Pressing Traps(10:18)
- Defense to Defense Transition(2:32)
- Defending in our own half(10:59)
What you’ll Learn:
- Build up from the back against different structures and ways of pressing.
- Create advantages inside to progress through the center.
- Exploit the outside spaces to progress.
- Find and use the free player once you've created the advantage.
- Break down a low block when the opponent sits deep.
- Press high and set pressing traps that win the ball in dangerous areas.
- Defend in your own half and organize your team to defend your own goal.