Offensive Tactics: TACTICAL ANALYSIS AND TRAINING SESSIONS

ABOUT THE BOOKLucas Rivas is a tactical analyst with extensive experience in professional football who will not only reveal the playing behaviors that define the teams led by these four elite coaches, but will also teach you how to initiate attacks starting from the back and how to apply those movements in different training sessions with your own team.This book presents a tactical analysis of Pep Guardiola, Jürgen Klopp, Mauricio Pochettino and Maurizio Sarri, learning from the best coaches in the world by breaking down 32 tactical situations.The objective of this work is to help you understand the reasoning behind the offensive tactical innovations of Guardiola, Klopp, Pochettino and Sarri; how they start their buildouts from the defense, progress, and then finish their plays in the opposing goal. All of these situations demonstrate variations that can be used against different types of opponents; those who will drop back to defend compactly and those who will seek to apply suffocating pressure.ABOUT THE AUTHORLucas Rivas. Born in 1985 in Buenos Aires, Lucas Rivas is a professional football coach and a member of the Argentinian Association of Football Coaches (ATFA).He started his career in Mexico in 2007, where was in charge of an affiliate team of Club Atlante in the Fourth Division Premier. At the same time he acted as the Sporting Director of the Mexican club’s youth divisions. The following year he started a long relationship with Argentina’s Club Atlético Lanús. There, he was a staff member of the Coordinación General de Fútbol Juvenil and was an on-field assistant coach for Leandro Sime in the fourth division. In 2011 he joined the first team staff as a Tactical Analyst for the first division. He worked in this capacity until 2015, becoming a specialist in Argentine soccer and winning the Copa Sudamericana in 2013 with Guillermo Barros Schelotto as head coach.He also collaborated with Marcelo Bielsa’s staff on the Chilean national team, where he created videos and reports about Chilean players who were playing with Argentinian teams.Then in 2016, Ezequiel Carboni summoned him to become assistant coach for Lanús’ second team (”Reserva”). A year later, in 2017, they took over the first division team. In 2018, they coached at Argentinos Juniors.In 2019 he received a call from Javier Sanguinetti, who invited him to be part of his technical team as an on-field assistant for Club Sol America of Paraguay. After this experience, in 2020, Rivas joined Nicolás Larcamón’s technical staff at Chile’s CD Provincial Curico Unido.Later in 2020 he was once again at Sanguinetti’s side; this time at Argentina’s Banfield, where they had an excellent campaign and reached the final of the Copa Diego Maradona. Read more