The Spanish Football Planning - The Practical Tool by David Dóniga Lara (Patreon)
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To use the tool, you simply change the 'example' contents of the bold items to those corresponding to your reality (in terms of text) and introduce, in the same practical and visual graphics offered, the contents, dates, and milestones that correspond to your own season, thus replacing the given examples.
The coach must locate the start and end of their work (the duration of the planning process) to meet the club's objectives (general, accompanied by all significant temporal milestones); establish a macrocycle of work based on the duration of the competitive process; identify which period of the year they are in (whether preparatory, competitive, or transitional) as their work will be relatively different depending on the period of the macrocycle they are in; understand what type of microcycle (the basic unit of planning, in relation to the previous game, the next one, and the journey to date) they need to undertake and place its contents in each session through work; and those works, in turn, through exercises that will implicitly carry the tasks to cover the objectives that are set for the team for the season, and for the upcoming day. From here, whatever your conception of training in football and your responsibilities as a team director, you can include your professional development in this structure.
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General overview of Football Planning (complete structure):




This is a simple and logical structure, valid only for football. From this first general glance at the season, we will start to detail what will be the Macros, periods, microcycles, and sessions, so that the coach understands the logic of it and appreciates that their reality is one step away: the step of modifying the example contents of the cards for their own.
We start by establishing the annual plan: temporality, macrocycle, and general objectives.
General objectives - complete with the specifics of each club.
1 or 2 macrocycles - in case there are 2, the Preparatory Period, Competitive Period, and Transitional Period increase). If there are 2, it must be justified with 'partial' final objectives, as occurs in competitions with 2 different tournaments, excessively long break periods, or competitions that begin once others have ended, always within the current season, as in countries where the cup is played after the end of the league, or national team tournaments (however short they may be, those tournaments, such as the Euro or World Cup, almost always have a preparatory and competitive period, so both comprise a complete macrocycle).
3 periods (which cover several months). Whether there are more or fewer macros, there are only 3 periods.
X Microcycles per period (from 1 onwards in each of the periods) depending on the matches or fixed commitments. There will be a microcycle, which will be different in terms of general objectives, depending on whether it is in the preparatory or competitive period. But its structure will not differ, always being conditioned by the previous and next game in its programming. Each coach will replace the author's examples with their own, lengthening or shortening the macrocycle or periods, and adding or subtracting microcycles to their timeline.
Planning is a forecast; the only immediate design will be the microcycle (specificity of the next game/the next session/the next exercise).
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