Before Stefan de Vrij’s free-agent transfer from Lazio to fellow Italians Inter Milan in the summer of 2018, he had privately enlisted the help of an independent tactics coach based in a Dutch business park. De Vrij was by then an established Netherlands international centre-half, with over 30 caps to his name and a CV…
It is November 2019 and the on-loan Dutchman has opened the scoring for Newcastle United against Premier League champions Manchester City. His first goal at St James’ Park. A moment of ecstasy as he wheels away towards the corner flag, his team-mates in pursuit. His first instinct is one of pure joy. His second is…
What actually happens in a video analysis session? With rare access, Sky Sports takes you inside a one-hour individual tactics discussion between Tactalyse founder Loran Vrielink and his client, Hannover 96 midfielder Mark Diemers, to find out…
“At the top, details make all the difference,” are the words of Stefan de Vrij, footballer with FC Internazionale (Milan) and the Dutch national team. De Vrij is coached on a weekly basis by the Dutch company Tactalyse. Loran Vrielink (27), not just the owner and founder of the company but performance coach as well,…
The process never changes for Cody Gakpo. Whether it is a goal and a hat-trick of assists for PSV against Feyenoord in August or being the only man at the World Cup to score in every group-stage game, the next meeting is still scheduled. There is analysis to do. Gakpo is in demand, a target…
Netherlands’ rising star Cody Gakpo’s additional tactical coaching has reaped dividends at the World Cup 2022, with the Manchester United target emerging as one of the breakout stars of the tournament
On Monday morning, 26 March 2018, three minutes before 10:00, the name Stefan de Vrij popped up on Loran Vrielink’s iPhone screen. It was time for De Vrij’s tactics class. De Vrij was a defender for the Italian club Lazio Roma (he’s now at Inter Milan) and the Dutch national team (he’d starred at the…
The forward has been working with a personal tactics coach since January in his bid to become one of the world’s top players, and it’s paying off. At some point on Thursday afternoon, Cody Gakpo will have found himself a quiet spot at the Netherlands team hotel, put on his headphones and fired up his…
Ce n’était pas forcément lui qu’on attendait pour porter les Pays-Bas, mais Cody Gakpo, buteur lors de chacun des trois matchs de poule des Néerlandais, est bel et bien celui qui a endossé la cape de sauveur. Itinéraire d’un gars loyal et dévoué, qui aurait très bien pu porter le maillot des Éperviers togolais ou…
“We break the game down into around 250 clips,” Loran Vrielink — William Troost-Ekong’s personal video analyst — tells The Athletic. “He is on his MacBook in England, I’m on my MacBook in Holland. With FaceTime or Zoom, we go through the clips. I will say ‘Check out clip 19’, and I want to see…