120 practices as used in the academies of La Liga providing a range of topics ideal for youth-level coaches wanting to develop teams to Spanish academy standards.

The Advanced Spanish Academy Coaching book provides an extensive range of practices from professional coaches from Villarreal CF, Real Madrid, a Spanish Football Federation Youth Development Coach and the China National Team Fitness Coach. This book contains 120 practices as used in the academies of La Liga. There are technical, tactical and conditioning practices ideal for coaches at youth level to develop their team to world leading, Spanish academy standards. David Aznar (Spanish Football Federation Youth Development Coach and former Atlético Madrid & Real Madrid Academy Coach) details his methods for long term planning, the importance of decision making and how to teach/learn through drills. His practices work on improving vision & spatial awareness, possession play and finishing. Rafa Juanes (Villarreal CF Technical Academy Coordinator and former Atlético Madrid Coach) outlines a special program designed for technical improvement in tactical positioning, working with centre backs, wide players, centre midfielders and forwards. Manu Dorado (Real Madrid Academy Coach) details the concepts for training and learning to deal with specific situations. The practices focus on creating intelligent players in game related drills and progressing your sessions through guided discovery. Fernando Gaspar (China National Team Fitness Coach and former Real Madrid & Benfica Coach) focuses on the physical preparation for ages 14-18, focusing on combining strength, speed, agility, stamina and flexibility with cognitive and coordinated football specific training.

Part 2 in the Spanish Coaching Bible Series covers high school, college and beyond. Laureano Ruiz is truly the guru of Spanish soccer. He has helped to develop some of the most highly skilled players in the world, including Ivan Helguera (Spain,Real Madrid), Ivan de la Pena (Spain, Lazio and as a coach at Barcelona had a huge influence on Hristo Stoichkov and even the great Johan Cruyff. This excellent book contains hundreds of drills and games, all clearly described with objectives and the appropriate age levels.

The maestro of Spanish soccer gives his insights and training suggestions for goalkeepers. Laureano Ruiz is truly the guru of Spanish soccer. He has helped to develop some of the most highly skilled players in the world, including Ivan Helguera (Spain,Real Madrid), Ivan de la Pena (Spain, Lazio and as a coach at Barcelona had a huge influence on Hristo Stoichkov and even the great Johan Cruyff. This excellent book contains hundreds of drills and games, all clearly described with objectives and the appropriate age levels.

The assistant soccer coach has existed for decades, and is a standard figure within the coaching staff, with specific roles, functions and responsibilities. However, I find it strange that nobody has yet described this profession formally. I used to only be a head coach, until one day I was proposed to be the assistant coach of U18 team of FC Barcelona. That is when I started thinking about writing this book, moved by my desire to continue learning. If I wanted to train in my new role I could only do it by asking others and observing training sessions. But I was missing one of the pillars that has forever supported my training: studying and reading. With this book I hope to cover that lack of information. The book is divided into two parts: the first is based on describing the assistant coach in professional soccer and I have not found a more practical way to do it than through interviews with assistant coaches. Each interviewee has contributed his experiences from working with the most recognized soccer coaches: I am talking about people who have worked with Vicente del Bosque, Ernesto Valverde, Luis Enrique, Pep Guardiola, Mauricio Pochettino, Sergio González, Quique Sánchez Flores, and Paulo Sousa. The second part of the book is related to Youth soccer, which I have experienced in clubs like Atlético de Madrid and FC Barcelona. I propose the role of the assistant coach working in Youth soccer to be more formative and educational than what is currently given, and I want to direct their effort towards two dimensions: the team's sporting performance (which the vast majority do) and the individualized analysis of the young player (which very few do). This second dimension is described in the last chapter, to demonstrate a new vision of assistant coaches in Youth soccer, who in my view have to dedicate their time to improving the players as an athlete and as a person in a more personalized and integral way.

This special book in full colour features 34 game situations of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona team, often described as the best ever. These 34 game situations (analysis) has been used to produce 34 sessions (160 practices) including quick passing functional practices, patterns of play, possession games, transition games, opposed/unopposed zone play, game situations and small sided games. In short, this book will help you coach your team 'The Barca Way.'

This official RFEF book is written by Eduardo Valcárcel, the Director of the Spanish Football Federation Coaching School. He has used his experience to provide a full program of 96 technical and tactical practices which are ideal for coaches at youth level, who want to develop their players and teams to world leading Spanish standards.