Rotations and Interchanges: A book inspired by Marcelo Bielsa

The theory is based upon the work of coaches who've been there and done it - its about planning sessions that are intended to resolve actual issues with any football team gets the reader thinking practically about what is the best way of going about improving yiur teams performances- with an emphasis on the vertical positional play advocated by Bielsa thought provoking book

Unfortunately I could not view the pictures which made some of the annotations difficult to understand. Good book for understanding

I purchased this book with the intention of learning more; to say the least I did. First and foremost, I think its preface on teaching the principles before all else is the most important; if there's a million ways to play the game there's a thousand ways to coach it, and just like players finding themselves so are coaches. So by understanding the general theme, it was relatively easy for me to understand the examples. Also a big fan of the QR code embedded examples.I took this material and helped fashion some training sessions for the U16 girls team that I assist; we're highly competitive but have had problems with out goal-scoring efficiency. We went on a run of five scoreless games, and then employed the new session inspired by this book. The next game was a couple more shots, and the next we had we put in four and missed three others. While I'm sure this wasn't a direct reflection of just a few sessions, the overall play of our team was much more of an attacking mindset, one that wasn't just the same thing over and over. And that was basically just understanding the rotations aspect; in our winter offseason I'm teaching our finishers/mids the interchange aspects. I also emailed the author to inquire about workshops (as offered in the end), and received a response to discuss matters further. I HIGHLY recommend this book. If you're the type of coach to teach playmakers "just get the ball to your feet and make some magic", this will serve you well.Edit: buy the paper copy (I did)

Do not buy this book if you are intending to read it on Kindle, it is a book heavy on images and all of the images just look like a black square. I wrote to the author as well but received no help from him either. Complete waste of time and money

The concept of rotations and interchanges is presented in an easy to understand manner, and the videos accessed via the QR codes are a nice touch. However, it doesn’t go much further than that, and it would be nice to see additional information provided such as training sessions, team tactics based on these rotations/interchanges, etc.

As a long term coach committed to professional growth, I was very disappointed that none of the diagrams were visible in the kindle app. Talk can be cheap, but fun, and the diagrams would have literally completed the pictures. I will keep looking for the diagrams somewhere.

Loved the book. Was interested from start to finish.