José Mourinho screening

José Mourinho screening

Here’s a José Mourinho training session with Real Madrid. This session was carried out during the pre-season course in the United States.

The primary objective is obviously physical work but also tactical work with the objective of setting up the game model, namely 4-2-3-1. As a reminder, Mourinho uses and is the precursor of the Tactical Periodization method.

Exercise 1: Physical workshops and reduced game.

The players change workshops every 4 minutes to keep the pace and not decrease in intensity.

Workshop 1: The blue player switches to the yellow player. Blue skips (ladder) then goes between the models. He receives the yellow ball. He passes in touch to the second yellow player then jumps over the hedges. He receives the ball from the second yellow player, controls and shoots.

Then he takes his ball and dribbles quickly until the next start (orange arrow) and repeats the exercise in the other direction.

Workshop 2: Reduced game 5 against 5. Free play but play with a touch of the ball is recommended. The terrain is really narrow and compact. The match is very intense and competitive, the players cannot hide or remain motionless because of this.

Coaching: technical quality, quick play and intensity are encouraged at all times.

This part lasts 20 minutes with every 4 minutes of workshop changes.

Exercise 2: Offensive combinations 4-2-3-1

Duration: 20 minutes

Objective: recovery circuit from defenders

Combination n ° 1: The players complete the circuit indicated on the drawing below.

Coaching:

- Call against call before receiving

- Open your body and shoulders facing the game before receiving the ball

- 2 keys maximum for fast circulation

Combination # 2: The players complete the circuit shown in the drawing below.

Coaching:

- Call against call before receiving

- Open your body and shoulders facing the game before receiving the ball

- 2 keys maximum for fast circulation

Make each combination on both sides.

Exercise 3: Game 7v7 + 3 jokers

The ground is narrow and compact to favor short and fast play.

Players are encouraged to find wild cards before scoring.

Two jokers on the sides and one in the axis.

Game system: 4-2-1

Coaching:

- Quality of passes, controls and shots

- Fast and short game (2 keys)

- Movement

- Find the jokers to have numerical superiority

- Jokers must be seen and move in the intervals

Duration: 20 minutes (change wild cards every 3 minutes)

Exercise 4: Specific work by midfielders

Only midfielders perform this exercise.

The circles make the combination indicated on the drawing below.

Coaching:

- Call against call before receiving

- Open your body and shoulders facing the game before receiving the ball

- One touch ball game

- Quality of the center

- Timing of the opposite winger entering the surface

Then the players achieve a return to calm with stretching.

Mourinho doesn't talk much during the exercises. They take advantage of breaks to ask their players' opinions on the exercises and on the points to be improved. And if during an exercise he has instructions to give to one of his players, he leaves the latter to talk to him and explain to him what he wants. Then two minutes later he re-enters his player.

Mourinho does not scream and talks very little during the exercises. He doesn't want to distract his players and break the rhythm and the intensity. Often during breaks he says to his players "I want more".

What do you think of this session? Do you think you can do this session with your players? Do you have questions about the exercises? Feel free to leave me your impressions in the comments area below.