First of all, it is important to contextualise that pressuring is a training content suitable to start training with players in egocentric sub-stage I.

As a first point, it is important to properly define the content in question, in this case pressuring, which we group as within the Individual Basic Fundamentals without the Ball.

1. PRESSURING DEFINITION:

The following is the definition used by MBP to describe the content of pressuring:

“A skill that aims to prevent the action of the ball possessor.”

Before embarking on the training tasks, it is essential to know the basic and advanced pressuring concepts. These are behaviours that will help the player to successfully resolve situations where pressuring is used as a behaviour.

2. BASIC CONCEPTS FOR PRESSURING:

When we talk about the basic concepts, we refer to how to use the technical skill of pressuring in an effective way in a real situation, i.e. the concepts will enable players to carry out pressuring correctly within the context of a game.

Once the player has mastered the previous concepts, it is time to introduce the advanced concepts. These require a more complex perception and decision making for our players, who may be in the egocentric sub-stage II. If you want to know what these concepts are and how to train them, please check our courses ‘Expert in Youth Football’ and ‘Planning and Programming in Youth Football’

3. TRAINING TASKS:

We have explained the content of pressuring in the introductory part. Now it is time to show how to train it. First of all, we must be very clear that pressuring will be a content that will be developed in the main phase of the training session.

First of all, we present the icons that will help us to understand the graphics of the training tasks.

The next training task we present to you is a Real Conditioned Game with 9 players: 3 v 3 + 2 Goalkeepers + 1 Attacking Neutral. The main concept is to ‘arrive to pressure quickly’.