How to take the initiative of the game without the ball: The Pressing Traps
Who Is This Course For?
Professional Coaches- Youth Academy Coaches
- Academy Managers
- Heads of Methodology
- Heads of Player Development
Why Choose this Course?
Do you want to improve your team’s collective defensive behaviors? Do you feel like you’re not recovering enough balls in the opponent’s half, forcing you into endless build-ups to score goals?
The fastest way to score is by recovering the ball in the opponent’s half! That’s why at APFC, we’ve created the PRESSING TRAPS course—to help you improve your team’s defensive performance.
Course Curriculum
- Chapter 1: What is a Pressing Trap?(10:08)
- Chapter 2: How to put pressure on the ball(7:13)
- Chapter 3: Second Defenders: Behaviors when there is pressure on the ball (6:26)
- Chapter 4: Formations and structures to succeed collectively(38:48)
What you’ll Learn:
- Learn how to design and execute Pressing Traps, one of the most powerful tactical tools in modern football. Discover how to guide your opponents into specific areas of the pitch, cut off their options, and force mistakes that quickly turn into scoring opportunities.
- Understand the crucial difference between a high block — an organized, compact pressing strategy — and a high press, an aggressive approach that suffocates the opponent’s build-up. You’ll gain the ability to recognize the perfect moments for each method, ensuring your team always presses with intelligence, not just intensity.
- You’ll discover how players should behave individually, and how those behaviours connect into a collective system.
- Break down the pressing system into its three key layers: The first defender, who applies direct pressure on the ball. The second defender, who anticipates and closes passing options. The third defender, who provides cover and balance.
- How to adapt your structure for maximum pressing efficiency.
- How to integrate pressing traps seamlessly into the formation you use.
TESTIMONIALS
"The coaches asked to bring APFC for the second time to present the hosted coaching course, It was a helpful and well received course "
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Ryan RichNational Capital Soccer League Executive Director 
I like to learn from one of the greatest educators out there on this big planet.
APFC helps me to improve a good understanding of your language, your model, and how you gonna educate and teach your children. And ultimately, understand how to collectively, how to attack, how to defend, how to train to your children make better decision on the field.
Cris GilmoreTechnical Director SoCal League 
I like how APFC presents the individual concepts that can be translated into the Positional Games and transition into bigger concepts for the game and how the kids learn.
Jesse ServinLA Breakers Girls Director 
I learned a lot about Positional Play from the fundamentals to the different concepts that are the foundations of Positional Play.
I take courses from APFC and they are pioneer in how they teach the topic. Highly recommended.
Yossi RazHead coach of UC Irvine men's soccer program 