Football training is, first of all, about improving the players’ ability to interact with the football environment. As explained in detail in previous blogs, these …
Universal football reference A football action is the interaction of a footballer with the football environment. This process consists of three phases: 1) communication, 2) …
In football, many coaches call themselves football conditioning coaches but on the pitch they are conditioning everything except football. So, their job title does not …
For many decades in football there is a heated debate between coaches who believe technique training should take place in football training and coaches who …
In the last few years the term periodisation has been a buzzword. A lot of people are talking about periodisation but not everyone seems to …
Everyone who has played football in the past has the experience of doing so-called ‘football fitness training’ in which he had to do exercises which …
We all know the discussions about a (new) player whose fitness level is lower than the rest of the team due to, for example, an …
If you want to improve you have to train more. At least, that is what most people think. As a result, football players have to …
In many countries around the world, people are complaining about a lack of ‘creative’ players. As ‘creative’ is a very general term, we first have …
Around three hundred years ago, the French philosopher René Descartes introduced the concept of dualism: body and mind. Physical and mental. Most people are familiar …