The Pressing Clinic
Madrid, Spain 1 day All levels
A full day inside a professional pressing session: watch it live, pause it, question it, then rebuild it on the tactics board with the staff who designed it.
Pablo Iglesias
First-team coach, La Liga
What you take home
- How a pressing trap is built, step by step
- The cues that trigger the press
- How to scale it for your age group
The days
- Morning
Watch the session
Arrive at 9:00. Coffee, briefing on what to watch for, then 90 minutes pitch-side as the first team builds its pressing week.
- Midday
The debrief
Video room. The staff pause the footage you just watched live and answer everything — why here, why now, why him.
- Afternoon
Rebuild it yourself
In small groups you adapt the session to your own context and present it back. You leave with a plan you can run on Tuesday.
Included
- Pitch-side viewing of a full first-team session
- 90-minute tactical debrief with the staff
- Session plans and clinic notes pack
- Lunch with the coaching group
Not included
- Travel to Madrid
- Accommodation (not needed — one day)
It stays on your CV
Every completed experience becomes a dated entry on your Gaffer CV — with its certificate, your notes and the people you met.
- Certificate of completion
- A dated entry on your Gaffer CV
- The group joins your network
The group outlives the trip
Before
Meet the group, get the programme and prepare with shared resources.
During
Shared notes, photos and live discussion while it happens.
After
Certificate, content and the conversation continues — the group stays open.