Appealing to a wide audience, this ground-breaking handbook takes an in-depth look at soccer match analysis, highlighting the latest in match analysis research and the innovative technologies now being used by professional soccer clubs around the world.

Bridging the gap between research, theory and practice, these methods can be used by coaches, sport scientists and fitness coaches to assess and improve:

• styles of play, technical ability and physical fitness
• objective performance feedback to players
• the development of specific training routines
• use of available notation software, video analysis and manual systems
• understanding of current academic research in soccer notational analysis.

This is the first book to focus exclusively on football, and is based on the authors' extensive experience in academic and professional match analysis.

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"The authors have assembled an essential reading for all who are interested in understanding and doing better coaching and improving the performance in soccer. To this purpose, there is a strong practical approach in the book by giving plenty of examples along with a satisfactory scientific analysis of the subject area. It is concise and well organized in its presentation, creating an effective textbook. I believe, therefore, the book will serve as a first-rate teaching tool and reference for coaches, athletes and professionals in the human performance sciences."

Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (2006) 5, 17

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"...essential reading - a strong practical approach and a first-rate teaching tool and reference for coaches, athletes and professionals in the human performance sciences."
Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (2006) 5, 171

'This book provides the first comprehensive review of match analysis in contempory Association Football...Suffice to say this is no better reference book on the subject.' - Insight, Spring 2005

' ... the book will serve as a first-rate teaching tool and reference for coaches, athletes and professionals in the human performance sciences.' - Journal of Sports Science and Medicine

Christopher Carling, A. Mark Williams, Thomas Reilly