Publisher's Synopsis
A life dedicated to football, first as a player and then as a coach, led me to seek out a new method of teaching. I had reached a point in my career where I realized that I needed to allow my inner teacher to develop and dedicate myself exclusively to the training of young players. Later, as a youth coach at FC Barcelona, I realized that it was possible for football institutions to establish a training process for players that employs a strategic plan emphasizing certain objectives, and that it would be possible to create an institutional training policy that also takes economic objectives into account. An institutional plan should enhance the performance and sporting development of the players. This is what success in the training process should look like: producing generations of players with a recognizable football DNA, who carry the institution's biotype, and who are able to establish themselves among the elite. The objective of this guidebook is to share, in the simplest and most practical way possible, how to achieve these goals. These are the basics of what I called the Argentine Development Method, the same one that I now apply as a developmental coach with City Group around the world. I am absolutely convinced that the technical and tactical development of players can be programmed. Therefore, this guidebook will provide you with the general and specific guidelines needed to transform the youth and lower division teams of a football club. It's a practical guide that can be implemented during a coach's first 100 transformative days in charge of youth development at any football institution.
