Advanced Individual Fundamentals by Position I

This course is essential for any coach working or aspiring to work in professional football. Should your center backs hold their position or follow the striker? How should your attacking midfielder move to create the most danger? Should your strikers drop short or attack the space? … Learn 100+ of Ekkono’s most valuable individual fundamentals to enhance your players’ performance! During matches, players face highly complex situations that require clear and precise guidance. As a coach or member of a coaching staff, you must be able to provide detailed instructions to help players make the right decisions in real time. In this 20-hour course, you will dive deep into the Ekkono Method’s individual fundamentals, specifically designed for three key positions: center back, attacking midfielder, and striker. You will discover in detail a total of 100+ defensive and offensive individual fundamentals distributed between central backs, advanced midfielders and strikers. Learn essential concepts from each of these fundamentals which will help you to apply them in the games and training sessions. If you’re a scout or analyst, this course will elevate your ability to analyze key game situations by mastering these fundamentals, allowing you to take your scouting and tactical analysis to the next level. If you are a coach, you will need to teach these concepts to your players to elevate their performance on the field! REGISTER FOR COURSE

  • Category: Game Model & Tactics
  • Level: advanced
  • Duration: 2 months
  • Price: 825 USD

Ekkono Coaches Academy — a football training method built on perception and decision-making, developed by Carles Romagosa and David Hernández since the 1990s. Used by 40+ professional clubs and football federations worldwide, Ekkono has supported 25,000+ coaches and clubs in developing smarter players and more effective teams.

What you will learn

  • Introduction to the concept of Individual Fundamentals by Position (IFP)
  • Understanding the importance of these fundamentals from the Specialization stage onwards
  • ​​Difference between offensive and defensive fundamentals​
  • ​Detailed explanation of each offensive and defensive fundamental for Center Backs
  • Detailed explanation of each offensive and defensive fundamental for Advanced Midfielders
  • ​​Detailed explanation of each offensive and defensive fundamental for Strikers
  • ​Differences in these fundamentals based on the system used by the team
  • ​Real match examples of players analyzing the correct or incorrect application of IFP
  • ​Examples of training exercises to work on IFP

Who this course is for

  • Head Coaches
  • Assistant Coaches
  • Methodology Directors
  • Academy Directors
  • Academy Coaches
  • ​​Scouts
  • Tactical Analysts

Course content

  • Course outline
    • Goalkeepers: attacking & defending fundamentals
    • Centre-backs: attacking & defending fundamentals
    • Full-backs: attacking & defending fundamentals
    • Defensive midfielders: attacking & defending fundamentals
    • Central midfielders: attacking & defending fundamentals
    • Attacking midfielders: attacking & defending fundamentals
    • Wingers: attacking & defending fundamentals
    • Forwards: attacking & defending fundamentals
    • Position-by-position video analysis
    • Applied drills and progressions
    • Position-specific perception cues
    • Position-specific decision making
    • Q&A
    • Final case work

Advanced Individual Fundamentals by Position I