The Soccer Performance Week: A Coach's Handbook for Training Load, Match Preparation, Recovery, and Player Development

The Soccer Performance Week

A Coach's Handbook for Training Load, Match Preparation, Recovery, and Player Development

Giulia Moretti

A team plays on Sunday. By Tuesday, the coach wants sharper pressing, players are recovering at different rates, and the training calendar is already full. What should happen next?

The Soccer Performance Week is a practical guide to soccer performance planning for coaches who need their technical work, physical preparation, and recovery decisions to fit together. It shows how to build a training week around real match demands, rather than stacking attractive drills and hoping they add up to a program.

Inside, you'll learn how to: - Turn match observations into specific training objectives and measurable behaviors. - Build a soccer training week around fixtures, attendance, and player availability. - Connect soccer tactical training with technical decisions and physical demands. - Coordinate football strength and conditioning without overloading the same session. - Approach soccer recovery planning, food, hydration, and sleep with sensible professional boundaries. - Use soccer workload monitoring without mistaking a dashboard for a diagnosis. - Adapt sessions for congested fixtures, small pitches, mixed experience, and limited staff. - Review a complete block of soccer performance training and decide what to change next.

The book includes eight focused chapters, twelve detailed practice cards, four contrasting weekly plans, six decision clinics, staff-meeting procedures, and copyable planning and review forms. Each practice card identifies the information cue, player decision, progression, and observation measure.

The examples are written for real coaching constraints. Some teams have analysts and gym facilities; others have one coach, a short evening booking, and a bag of cones. Both need a coherent plan.

Whether you are improving soccer match preparation for an adult squad or coordinating development in an older youth team, this handbook gives you a working method: identify the match problem, design the smallest useful practice, monitor what actually happened, and adapt the next week.

Build a plan your players can follow and your staff can explain.

Professional note: The book provides coaching guidance, not medical diagnosis, rehabilitation clearance, or individualized nutrition prescriptions.

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E-bog: 16. oktober 2026