Santiago Castro Scout Report & Coaching Attacking Transition Principles

Today, we have a player analysis scout report piece on Santiago Castro at Bologna in 2024/25 along with a tactical theory piece focusing on how to coach attacking transition principles!

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Santiago Tomás Castro has been a significant contributor to Bologna FC 1909‘s excellent form this season.

In this tactical analysis and scout report on the Argentinian, we will explore his attacking skills, especially his finishing, goalscoring, and playmaking talent.

The analysis will also study his general profile, strengths, and weaknesses, as well as his roles within Rossoblù’s tactics and his importance in Vincenzo Italiano’s system.

This session will aim to create opportunities for players to work on attacking transition principles.

We will encourage them to initially seek to break lines and play forward into players who have support.

However, we will also encourage them to recognise when this isn’t possible and instead have them retain possession and stretch the pitch both horizontally and vertically.

This tactical analysis will provide examples for coaching attacking transition principles.

It will give examples of three practices and analyze how these practices should be run and what coaching points can be derived from them.

These practices are transferable to a wide range of tactics for it looks to bring out learning for basic principles in this moment.

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