THE SCIENCE OF SPACE CREATION
Javier Fernandez and other members of his team are leading a rigorous scientific attempt to understand football.
Javier Fernandez and other members of his team are leading a rigorous scientific attempt to understand football.
Elite athletes are getting older. We know that players can give their best performance levels for longer now than they could a few decades ago.
Changes in sport are closely linked to changes in society. Life expectancy is increasing and the retirement age has also progressively increased in Spain.
Injuries are one of the main concerns in the world of sports as they are the primary reason which interrupts an athlete’s training program.
Virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality are establishing themselves in a society which is becoming ever more accustomed to the use of new technologies for entertainment, consumption or information.
One of the first decisions a club’s coaching staff must take is the design of pre-season training.
The objective of the pre-season is to seek the best individual and collective physical fitness of the team before beginning the competition.
The advantage of playing at home in football is a widely studied and recognised phenomenon.
Small-sided games (SSG) are very common training tasks for any team.
With such an ambitious goal, the Barça Innovation Hub has presented its research at this year’s world-renowned MIT Sloan Sports Analytics international conference.