Product Description

A comprehensive look at modern zone formations through the eyes fo the author and ten high level professional Italian coaches. Arrigo Sacchi (Milan, Italian National Team), Marcello Lippi (Napoli, Inter, Juventus), Walter Novellino (Venezia, Napoli, Piacenza), Carlo Ancelotti (Parma, Juventus), and Renzo Ulivieri (Parma) are among the impressive list of contributors to this valuable coaching reference.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #181205 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Undecipherable translation
It is very difficult to comment on the content of this book as it is translated so badly it basically is not in English at all if you're Italian then I'm sure the original must be very interesting. If you're English do not waste your time or money on this book. They obviously didn't pay for the book to be translated so why should you!

Would be five stars with a different translator!
I agree with other reviewers who have praised the book but not the translation.

This should be a five-star book: some top Italian coaches explaining drills for all aspects of the game, plus commentaries on formations from the likes of Arrigo Sacci, Marcello Lippi et al.

I can only assume the translator was Italian and convinced, wrongly, that his command of English was up to the job. Perhaps the American publisher was not well versed in football and so didn't pick up on how unintelligible some of the passages were.

Some of this book you can read and understand, some of it you can understand it if you read the sentence three or four times. Sometimes, though, it might as well be Ancient Greek.

I've opened a page at random - this is about neutralising attempts at goal:

"As the ball is shot, the players move back with a tactical cross-step run. They don't move back with a regular run (it would not be very fast and balanced), but with a run set on the side and being ready to change direction, pivoting on the back foot."

Eh? Could this be why England players are having trouble with Fabio's exotic formations?

Seriously, this is a potentially excellent book that deserves a retranslation and reprint. Perhaps a British publisher could take up the case?

Great Tactics...
... and wonderful diagrams. Just wish I could make head or tail of the text. The translation is just very poor and lets down what could possibly be an excellent book.