When working on defending, you must create the environment. You want the first, pressing defender to tell his teammates that he's stepping up. From there on if that first pressing player doesn't loudly tell his teammates that he is stepping up to press, you stop the game and send that players off changing him with a sub. After a few moments, you will not have to change the players often! (note to license instructors, add this to the 'D' manual for 1-2-3 defenders).

From Roger Wilkerson, technical director of New Zealand Football Association: We must play quicker in training. If you make a mistake here, no problem, but make a quicker mistake!

On "Playing with Certainty": A good progression for practice is technical activities, conditioned games, small games. Coaches should not say to their players, "Do this." Instead, ask a question, discuss the situation, show a move -- then get going again. You've got to coach in the future, with your eyes on long term development, and you've got to develop your own coaching style.

From Ottmar Hitzfeld, head coach at Bayern Munich: Select a good staff. As a head coach, you need good people around you -- people who can offer balance and a variety of expertise. Members of the backroom staff must be honest and trustworthy. A yes man is no good, you need honest opinions.