Yaya Toure’s INCREDIBLE coaching strategy is revealed in new footage of Spurs’ U16 training… showing why Barcelona and Man City legend could be a successor to Pep Guardiola
- Yaya Toure’s possession-based coaching drills are revealed in Spurs U16s video
- The former Manchester City man leads youngsters through intense sessions
- After his year at Spurs’ U16s team, he will be Standard Liege’s assistant manager
Yaya Toure’s possession-based approach to coaching has been revealed in new footage from a Spurs U16s training session.
In the practice session, youth academy players are led through drills that teach them to adopt the appropriate body position to receive the ball and play forwards, get the ball out of their feet quickly to the spare man, and find space to create chances.
Overall, the drills are designed to reinforce a possession-based philosophy and the ability to be creative under high pressure.
Toure’s coaching style, revealed in the video released by Coaches’ Voice Academy, is shown to be demanding and high-octane but also encouraging.
The former Barcelona and Manchester City star has been head coach of Spurs’ U16s side since last summer but will soon be joining Belgian outfit Standard Liege as assistant manager.
Yaya Toure’s detailed approach to possession-based coaching is shown in footage from May
The 40-year-old played under manager Pep Guardiola at both Barcelona and Manchester City
A longer video on the website shows Toure’s methods alongside coach Joe Staunton in greater detail.
The session starts with an uncontested technical passing practice, with players working around mannequins and developing their passing and receiving abilities.
Secondly, there is an 8v4 possession game played in the centre circle of a pitch.
Finally, the 40-year-old leads the youngsters through a five-a-side match compressed into a small pitch with full-sized goals, forcing players to get creative to make space for shooting.
Toure reveals a personal approach to man-management. He said: ‘Be patient, be calm, and understand it’s a learning development for them. You have to give them the sense that you appreciate working with them and they have to feel that from you.
‘In that sense, the more they trust you, the more they give you, the more they work hard.’
He explains that captaining his club and country gave him the inkling that he wanted to be a coach, but that it is a big transition for former players, especially when managing a social-media-focused generation of new talent.
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