The future of football schools: private tactical training There are mental trainers, there are physical trainers, and there are technique trainers all of them can be external and hired by the player. But have you ever heard of an individual tactical trainer, that is external and hired by the player? The odds are that most…
This is how we cognitively coach players This article will be more practical than the previous articles about learning. In this article, we will tell how we teach professional football players through our Elite 1 on 1 video sessions service. A lot of the concepts we discussed in our articles about learning we implement in…
This concept decided much about what and when you coach a player After several articles about specific learning subjects, it’s time to zoom out a bit on the bigger picture of learning. In today’s article, we will write about the learning curve of a football player. The learning curve is a graphical representation of the…
Why do trainers let their players train with tennis balls in their hands? We’ve talked a lot in previous blogs about learning styles and teaching styles. But something universal for learning and teaching is that you can learn or teach something implicitly or explicitly. In today’s article, we’ll write about implicit and explicit learning in…
Every trainer should use this concept with individual tactics Supercompensation is the body adapting to a stimulus and adapting to a higher level than it was before the stimulus. As you can see in the graph if you start with the next stimulus too early then you’re not adapted yet and you will perform worse…
What can football players learn from people like Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs? Decision Fatigue is an interesting topic that hasn’t been talked about enough in football. We explained in an earlier blog, what a decision is and how we make decisions. This blog can be read here. Nowadays players make 1000s of…
Which coaching style suits which personality? In the previous article, we talked about the different types of learning and the different personalities of learning. As a coach, you want to find out what your player responds to best. Because this will make the player learn things faster. By finding out the learning style, you can…
“Every learning style needs a different approach” In our article series about individual tactics, we established a basic framework about the different concepts within individual tactics. Think about the whole process of the individual tactics, perception, decisions, and execution. But just knowing this process is not enough. We have to know how we’re going to…
The more knowledgeable coaches are on the pitch, the better? In a typical football club, the technical staff might consist of a head coach, two or three assistant coaches and specialized coaches for the goalkeepers, defenders and attackers. Then there is the supporting staff: the physical coach, physical therapist, perhaps a sport scientist and one…
Modern-day attackers aren’t just attackers anymore “Defenders should be dependable, attackers should be unpredictable” is the common stereotype. The first part is definitely true, as one defender’s mistake could lead to an opportunity for the opponent. That’s why many people believe that individual video analysis is more valuable to defenders than it is to attackers.…