TRAINING VISION
DEVELOPMENT & INNOVATION
As an academy, we want to pay a lot of attention to development and innovation. Key aspects are:
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A solid player tracking system and as part of this following players in their development.
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This also includes the use of video analyses.
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Recognizing, identifying and developing talents.
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Creating a performance climate and learning climate for the players and coaches
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Organize knowledge sharing inside and outside the academy.
Player tracking system
A basis of talent development is a player tracking system. A file is created for each player in which his development in the field of football and physiology is recorded and monitored. Through this system, objectives for the development of a player are set. In a Personal Development Interview (PO interview), the trainer/coach and the player make a number of agreements, which are stored in the player tracking system. The aim of the PO interview is to increase awareness of a player's own responsibility for his performance and development (from the under 12 onwards this becomes increasingly important).
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Video analysis
Video analytics help make players/teams better. The players will better understand what the intention was. Players see themselves and others in the situation the coach is talking about. Coaching from the side is almost always coaching afterwards. It's already happened. Video footage is also afterwards but the coach can put a player back in the game, as it were. They see the situation again. You can even draw on the images.
The advantage of video analysis is that a number of situations can be put one after the other. For example, you don't see the build-up from backwards once in the third minute and then again in the twelfth minute. No, the trainer can put all those situations in a row and play them. Then the players also see replays. It is important in any learning process that situations are repeated and can be looked back to learn from.
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Talent development & identification
In football, the skills (including technique, insight, strength, speed, motor skills, mentality, decision-making) must always adapt to a changing environment (including fellow players, opponents, spaces, ball). All these variables make it extremely difficult to make a prediction among the pupils about who will be the best footballer in 10 years' time. After all, these are children who are not yet in puberty and whose development is still a big question mark in many areas.
Talent recognition and identification is a process that certainly runs from the age of 11 to the age of 16. It is important to recognize the potential and to develop it further.
With the regular training sessions and the special training sessions at FACT, we want to achieve this as a club.
Development trainers
The trainers of FACT are given every opportunity to develop in their profession. Trainers who commit to the club are offered courses. In addition, a lot will be mirrored and evaluated with each other and with the Technical committee with the aim of learning and improving.
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Performance and learning environment
Playing football in a climate where performance is possible is essential to make players and teams better. A performance climate is a climate where both in terms of organization and discipline, the right things are organized and executed at the right times.
A performance climate is also a climate where the players themselves are concerned about their development. This requires discipline and perseverance. This starts with making agreements in all kinds of areas, so that players and parents know where they stand. It is then important to comply with these agreements.
In a season, 2 formal evaluation moments take place. One in the mid-season (dec/jan) and one at the end of the season. The following aspects will be evaluated:
1) Discipline
2) Development in the field of football :
3) Performance in competitions. In particular, it is checked whether the player performs his tasks well
And whether improvements in the development aspects are clearly visible in the competitions.
4) Coachability. The following aspects are considered:
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The evaluations are recorded in evaluation reports and are provided as a report to the players.
knowledge sharing
Sharing knowledge, inspiring and meeting. These are the core activities that we want to use. We want to enter into partnerships with other associations / gyms within and outside the sport of football.
We also want to make maximum use of the knowledge of the professional football organizations, the Moroccan Football Association and the Dutch Football Association (KNVB).
Results & accountability
In May of each new season, goals of the previous season are evaluated and set for the new season. We do this on 4 levels:
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On board level
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On management team level
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On committee level
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On the level of the trainers