You get drills for developing the attacking shape, defensive timing, transition play and other skills needed to play this formation in the modern style. This chapter also provides questions to ask of your team before playing this formation. The Modern 4-2-3-1 - How this formation is played by Germany and Real Madrid’s midfield powerhouse. To put the theory into practice, you get role specific training drills for defensive shape, establishing shape and movement and drills for training twin strikers.

This chapter also features how Athletico Madrid plays the formation and the diamond 4-4-2 of Liverpool. The Modern 4-4-2 - How this formation was used by Leicester City and Iceland to beat more technically advanced team. Systems of Play covers in detail the reasoning and methodology behind some of the most common systems of play in the summer of 2016. With his wife, Tammy Allen-Kouns, he has one son, Caden. Kouns is active in national coaching education instruction through the NSCAA and US Soccer. Final, their highest scoring season ever and their first ever NAIA National Women’s Soccer Tournament appearance. In just his first year with the Grizzlies Kouns led them to the A.I.I. Kouns was then appointed head coach at Georgia Gwinnett College. Here he won three Ohio Athletic Conference titles in four seasons, two NCAA Regional Finals and the program’s first ever trip to the NCAA Women’s Soccer Final Four in 2013, earning him a Coach of the Year award. His next big success was at Jacksonville University, where he took the Dolphins to two Atlantic Sun Conference Semi-Finals and finally won the title in 2006, for the second time in JU’s history.Īfter JU, Kouns was Associate Head Coach at the University of Cincinnati (OH) before becoming head women’s coach at Division III Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. His coaching career began as the Head Women’s Soccer Coach at Union College, where he led the Bulldogs to the Mid South Conference Championship and a berth in the NAIA National Women’s Soccer Tournament in his first season.

Chris Kouns has been coaching soccer for over 22 years, including ten as a head coach at the NCAA Division I and III levels.

4-4-2 diamond drills