This Book Teaches You How to:

• Replicate Xabi Alonso and Bayer Leverkusen’s playing style
• Coach your team to build up play and dominate possession
• Implement positional patterns of play into your training sessions
• Instruct your players with key coaching points
• Create goal scoring chances with an unpredictable attack
• Score more goals!

Learn Xabi Alonso’s Coaching Philosophy and Tactics:

• Use different build up shapes (4-2-4, 3-2-5, 2-3-5) against different opponents
• Dominate possession and midfield area with precision, patience, and control
• Draw in the press and break the lines of the opposition
• Create overloads around the ball to progress play forward
• Positional play with movement, rotations, and interchanges
• Utilise innovative and dynamic wing back play in attack
• Implement incisive attacking play with attacking overloads in the final third

82 Passing, Positional Possession, Games, Patterns, and Attacking Practices Included:

• Warm Ups
• Passing Combinations
• Positional Build Up Play Combinations
• Positional Possession Games
• Attacking Positional Patterns of Play
• Attacking and Finishing
• Positional Training Games
• Attacking Set Plays

The 82 Practices included in this book are all taken directly from Xabo Alonso’s training sessions at Bayer Leverkusen between 2022 and 2024.