All coaches watch football. Many wish they would see more and see it earlier. It is often the situations that trigger most attention or emotions …
Why do players train? To become a better football player, right? But how does that work? In this blog, I will explain which training sessions …
Training harder or smarter? The difference between training more and training better If you want to improve as a football player, you have to train …
Playing football is about trying to win. This might sound simple but what does it mean? There are a lot of confusing opinions about the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …