Schedule

Descriptions of the Courses and Minicourses of the 7^th Soccer Experience

International Course

Title:  Performance at the limit: Lessons on high performance management and achieving the podium from Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

Speaker:  Prof. Dr. Tom Patrick

Overall Purpose: Contribute to the qualification of professionals in the management and processes of creating and sustaining world leading high performance environments through the development of the important concepts, methodologies and processes.

Course Description:

• Establishing leadership and instilling a performance culture;
• Essential elements of high performance planning;
• Importance of technology & data;
• Evaluating and development coach performance;
• Implementing world leading daily training environments;
• The process of program tracking and program evaluation;
• Ensuring best practice regarding sport science and medicine delivery;
• Methods of athlete performance & progression monitoring.

Minicourse:

Minicourse 1: Management of Youth Soccer Academies

Speaker: Prof. Ademir Calovi

Overall Purpose:  Contribute to the qualification of professionals with respect to the intervention in the management of youth soccer academies, through the development of specific concepts, methodologies and skills.

Course Description:

• Concept of Management;
• Concept of Technical Management;
• Long-Term Development;
• Professional Development;
• Development Model.

Minicourse 2: Psychological Aspects of Soccer

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Maria Regina Brandão

Overall Purpose:  Contribute to the professional’s understanding about the psychological aspects involved in practice.

Course Description:

• Psychological determinants of sport performance;
• The role of the coach in soccer psychology;
• Evaluation of psychological aspects;
• Training of psychological aspects.

Minicourse 3: Performance assessment and control of elite athletes

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Guilherme Passos

Overall Purpose: Soon.

Course Description: Soon.

Minicourse 4: CONTROL OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL LOAD – From the definition of variables to the creation of intervention processes

Speaker: Prof. Altamiro Bottino

Overall Purpose: Identify which variables should be monitored in training sessions and matches at the professional level of soccer, which tools should be employed and how to elaborate the processes inherent to control. Measures, evaluations and prescription based on the results.

Course Description:

• Concept of internal load;
• Concept of external load;
• Evolution of tools;
• Creation of routines for data collection, interpretation and intervention;
• Creation of reports for players, coaching staff and media.

Minicourse 5: Observation, Analysis and Interpretation of Behaviour in Soccer

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Daniel Barreira

Overall Purpose: Contribute to the qualification of professionals with respect to the processes of observation, analysis and interpretation of behaviour in Soccer in their different scales, thus enabling the development of competencies for working with clubs and national teams, in competition and training.

Course Description:

• Department of Performance Analysis: organization and functions of the stakeholders;
• Means and methods for behaviour observation, record and analysis;
• Observe and analyse teams: performance indicators;
• References of the elite player: what to observe?

Minicourse 6: Goalkeeper Training

Speaker: Prof. Rogério Maia

Overall Purpose: Development of goalkeeper training in Modern Soccer.

Course Description:

• Definition and characteristics of the goalkeeper profile;
• The goalkeeper as part of the model of play;
• Goalkeeper’s development stages;
• Technical, tactical, physical and emotional aspects of the position;
• Assessment and control of matches and training sessions;
• Planning of the training cycles and contents to be addressed;
• The process of talent development through his/her youth-professional pathway.

Courses Taught:

Course 1:  Offensive Organization and Attack-Defence Transition training in top-level Soccer teams

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tomás García-Calvo

Overall Purpose: Support the planning of tactical content, in order to adequately integrate them to the development of the team’s model of play. Show how to develop a global training methodology, through an ecological perspective.

Course Description:

– Concepts and basic terminology;

– Content timing in planning;

– Appropriate content organization and interrelation with other aspects of the game: from the microcycle to the training task;

– Main methodological aspects for the development of training sessions;

– Model of practice session in Spain.

Course 2:  Defensive Organization and Defence-Attack Transition training in top-level Soccer teams

Speaker: Prof. Dr. José Guilherme

Overall Purpose:  Convey theoretical and empirical knowledge about the specific subject, allowing for a didactic and methodological intervention in the contexts of planning and operationalization of the training process.

Course Description:

• “Screening” of the Soccer game;
• Moments of play and their interaction;
• Principles and subprinciples of play;
• Defensive organization and offensive transition;
• Building up of methodological sequences;
• Model of practice session in Portugal.

Course 3 – Part 1:  Inter- and Intra-Individual Variability in response to Exercise

Speaker: Prof. Dr. José Afonso

Overall Purpose: The prescription of exercise, whether in competitive of health contexts, has been strongly based on guidelines that, more or less substantiated, do not cease to constitute generic recipes, not rarely inappropriate for the approaches of the individual cases. In addition, all cases are, by definition, individual, as they will always be concrete people who will have to undergo the training programs. In more recent years, it has been noted that there is a tremendous disparity in training responses and, similarly, that the current guidelines are not always based on data. There is, in particular, an excessive confidence in studies with severe methodological flaws and in average values that frequently do not reflect the reality of a population. Indeed, the average response values tend to be followed by huge standard deviations, putting in serious doubt on the utilization of average values as a basis for establishing any guidelines. The Theory and Methodology of Sports Training advocates the essential principle of Inter- and Intra-Individual Variability in training response. However, in practice, we believe this principle has been underestimated, and that it should be evidenced, thus playing an absolutely central role in the exercise prescription and monitoring.

Course Description:

Inter- and Intra-individual variability in response: what does it mean?

1. Inter-individual variability. Practical examples based on the biomechanics of typical movements of the strength training.
2. Intra-individual variability through time. Adaptation, history, epigenetics mentality/intention.
3. Variability in light of the principle of specificity.
4. Variability in light of the principle of monotony.
5. Variability in light of the principle of training complexity.

Redefine the concept of training load.

1. External vs. internal load.
2. External movement vs. Internal actions (cases of identical movements, however, performed internally, differently).
3. ‘Physical’ load and other dimensions of load.
4. Beyond intensity and volume: load complexity, density, direction and monotony.

From the guidelines to an individualized prescription.

1. The importance of being aware of the guidelines.
2. The importance of disrespect the guidelines.
3. Test the tests:
   1. Sensitivity and specificity.
   2. Positive and negative predictive value.

Number Needed to Treat and Number Needed to Harm.

1. Receiver Operator Characteristics Curves.
2. Test the cut-off values with different samples.
3. Which parameters to assess? And which of the available tests to chose?
4. From central to dispersion values.
5. From the probabilities to the case.

Variability in response to training: what do we know today?

1. Power training.
2. Muscle hypertrophy training.
3. Dynamic stretching training.
4. Static stretching training.
5. Cardiac rehabilitation.
6. Pulmonary rehabilitation.
7. Learning curves in the context of Motor Learning.
8. Continuous responsiveness: from non-responders to hyper-responders.
9. Outliers: complexity in the analysis of their patterns and paradoxes in the interpretation of these individuals.

What about sports periodization?

1. Periodization as a specific way of planning.
2. Load dynamics and sports performance.
3. Direction preview, magnitude and timing of adaptations.
4. Variation versus periodization: what literature has been effectively
5. Self-organization, emergence and novelty.
6. Sensitivity to initial conditions and exponentiation of errors.
7. Known unknowns and unknown unknowns.
8. The importance of variable non-periodized programs.

Future pathways

1. Know the guidelines, but bet on individualization.
2. Bet on generic planning, not on periodization.
3. Event-Driven Architecture applied to the process of exercise prescription and monitoring

Course 3 – Part 2: The importance of Asymmetric Training in Sports

Speaker: Prof. Dr. José Afonso

Overall Purpose: Symmetry has been excessively valued in sports training, specially in physical training. However, the human being is only roughly symmetrical, being the carrier of numerous asymmetries, started early in the process of embryological development. These asymmetries – muscular, facial, neural, lymphatic, among others – tend to accentuate by daily routines (e.g., chewing, driving, opening doors, …). In addition, many asymmetries might as well be beneficial for the development of laterality and performance in numerous activities. Even in theoretically more symmetric sports, or in those in which symmetry is benefited (whether by aesthetic or performance issues), it is rarely possible to obtain the same results and the functional asymmetries appear to be unavoidable. In this course, we will argue in favour of asymmetric training in sports. We will also verify that the so-called symmetric training is not, effectively, symmetric. Besides the performance issues, the relations between symmetry and injuries will also be analysed.

Course Description:

1. The human being – this asymmetrical being

1.1. Embryologic development, tissue specialization and establishment of fundamental asymmetries.

1.2. Neurologic development, brain specializations, laterality and reaction times.

1.3. Anatomic asymmetries – trunk, upper and lower limbs.

1.4. Ocular asymmetries, visual information and postural control.

1.5. Asymmetries in the animal kingdom – locomotion, chewing, etc.

2. Pseudo symmetry in sports.

2.1. Bilateral force work.

2.2. Unilateral force work, performed on both sides.

2.3. Sports actions in typically symmetric sports: apparent versus real symmetry.

2.4. Symmetric sports actions in typically asymmetric sports: desired versus real symmetry.

3. Asymmetry history

3.1. Matter and antimatter.

3.2. Spontaneous symmetry breaking.

3.3. Asymmetry as organizing and catalyst factor of matter organization.

3.4. Asymmetry as a necessary factor for existence of time.

3.5. Protein Folding.

4. Asymmetry in sports.

4.1. Dominant movements in predominantly asymmetric sports.

4.2. Bilateral and anteroposterior asymmetries resulting from these asymmetries

4.3. Case study: medial vs. lateral shoulder rotation.

4.4. Case study: knee extensors vs. flexors.

4.5. Isokinetic evaluations and reality Avaliações isocinéticas e realidade.

4.6. Specificity versus compensation: laterality.

4.7. Specificity versus compensation: anteroposterior.

4.8. Asymmetries and injuries: what do we really know?

Course 4: Training for utilization of the System of Tactical Assessment in Soccer (FUT-SAT)

Speakers: Prof. Guilherme Machado and Prof. Msc. Felipe Moniz

Overall Purpose: Training for utilization and application of the System of Tactical Assessment in Soccer (FUT-SAT).

Course Description:

• FUT-SAT applications in the context of clubs, soccer schools and research;
• Presentation of the tactical principles;
• Training for the FUT-SAT’s analysis software;
• Player assessment through FUT-SAT;
• Training for the field test;
• Utilization of the report in the training context.