Team Sports

Ball possession as the star of the show

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EXPLORATORY ACTIVITIES

"Drills for athletic skills through exploratory activities for a single player or a team."

SUPPORT FOR COACHES

Support for coaches so that they can assume new teaching responsibilities.

METHODOLOGICAL COACHING

Bring about new forms of methodological coaching for players based on implicit learning.

NEW WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING OUR GAME

Development of new ways to understand — and put into practice — our objectives for a creative, proactive, and collective game.

INNOVATIVE STRUCTURES FOR TEAM ORGANIZATION

Implementation of innovative structures for collective organization based on the fundamental goals of each of the sports divisions of the Club.

HOLISTIC SOLUTIONS FOR CONTINUITY OF PLAY

Understanding match situations in a holistic, interdisciplinary manner in order to propose solutions for continuity of play.

Team Sports

WE SEEK TO EMPOWER PLAYERS’ SELF-ORGANIZATION AND AUTONOMY THROUGH CREATIVE AND UNIQUE WORK.

Team sports are characterized by the fact that they unfold in changing environments, so athletes need to adapt their movements, relationships and interactions in a non-linear way. Through creative and unique work, we seek to strengthen self-organization and encourage autonomy in our players.


In all of the team sports that make up our Club, the ball itself generates a perpetual state of imbalance; thus, we seek always to take the initiative and impose our collective interpretation on our opponents.

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RECOVERY NUTRITION FOR FOOTBALL: BUILDING A TEAM

Analysis and Sports Technology
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Degrees of freedom or degrees of slavery?

The understanding of the modifying variables of the game, based on the degrees of freedom.

Soccer from First Principles

The goal of this post is to outline a series of principles that are considered to be crucial to understand the development of FC Barcelona’s playing style.

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ECCENTRIC EXERCISES: STUDYING “VACCINES” FOR MUSCLES

Training using eccentric exercises is important to prevent possible damage. However, intensive training can also cause muscle damage, so it is critical to be vigilant in order to keep injury risk to an absolute minimum.

AN OBJECTIVE CLASSIFICATION OF MUSCLE INJURIES

An objective and appropriate classification would improve the accuracy of prognosis, allow treatment to be adjusted and reduce the risk of re-injury.

Analysis and Sports Technology
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STABILITY OR INSTABILITY, IS THAT THE QUESTION?

The importance of building a game model in football.

STUDY OF HIGH INTENSITY ACCELERATIONS AND DECELERATIONS IN SOCCER

A new dimension of analysis suggests that maximum accelerations occur with a frequency 8x greater than sprint actions.

Sports Performance
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THE LEVEL OF RESISTANCE AS A MODERATOR OF THE TRAINING LOAD

Cardiovascular endurance manifests as a moderator of the load result to which the athlete is exposed.

Spaces in Soccer from a Quantitative Perspective

In the words of Johan Cruyff, “Players, in reality, have the ball for 3 minutes, on average. So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball? That is what determines whether you’re a good player or not.” 

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