Andrea Cavalli
Andrea is a UEFA C licensed football coach and President and Technical Lead of TRE FBL, an Italian player development project focused on individual and small-group training.
He currently coaches at Codogno U17 and has previously worked within the youth development structures of Parma Calcio, Torino FC and Catania FC, both as a youth coach and academy coach educator.
His work centers on designing training environments that challenge players to perceive, decide and adapt within the game. His main interests include player development, training methodology, observation and the relationship between technical-tactical learning and decision-making.
Articles by Andrea Cavalli
If someone asked me which discovery has most changed the way I see football, and above all the way I coach, I’d answer without hesitation: learning to watch the game away from the ball. It has changed how I talk to my players and, more than anything, where I direct my attention. Not my methodology, not my philosophy. What changed is what I observe, and who I speak to while the move is unfolding. The idea underneath it is simple: how much time a player…
The most important skill a coach has is planning effective sessions. The second most important is recognising, mid-session, that the plan we prepared so carefully on paper needs to change. Again and again. What works on paper is one thing. Then the pitch speaks. Or rather, the players do. Every training environment we design must have clear objectives and clear tasks. Chaos can help players develop adaptability, but too much chaos means failing to give them the tools and information to understand what they’re trying…