Celebrated Turkish football manager, Bülent Uygun, launched his book: ‘Trending Training Drills in Football and a Contemporary Look at Football’, here on Sunday.
For the 46-year old coach, who played for the national side as an attacking midfielder and even captained Fenerbahçe during his playing days, said, “the book is an attempt at bridging the gap between players and coaches in the best possible way.”
Uygun, who managed Qatar Stars League club, Umm Salal SC, for an year before moving to Gaziantepspor last year can be credited with the meteoric rise of Turkish club Sivasspor. Starting in 2006, after having retired from professional football two years earlier, Uygun lead the small club based in Central Anatolia to such heights that it qualified to the UEFA Champions League in 2008-09. The club entered the third round as the best-placed path for non-champions.
Sivasspor went on to become such a powerhouse that UEFA had to stand up and take notice, analysing Uygun’s coaching methods. In fact, his methods have also been an inspiration for José Mourinho and experts from the Netherlands and Brazil.
The same methods have now been included in the book – a one stop shop for soccer greatness. Shaped like a football, the training guide, brought out in Arabic, English and Turkish, by Hasan Kalyoncu University Publication, Turkey, deals with subjects like nutrition for athletes, strength, speed, aerobic and anaerobic endurance and so also sports psychology.
Apart from training, the manual also contains playing positions, drills, exercises, field positions and set pieces used by famous soccer clubs and so also UEFA course practices.
Endorsed by Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, whose words, “Read, think, apply, conclude” offer a simple yet perfect opening for the book that encourages the reader, notably a football aficionado, or a young  player to carefully read and put in practice the styles of the game.  
Uygun announced that the proceeds from the sale would go to the families of the soldiers, who died defending the country during the unrest of July 2015.