Football Periodisation
The term ‘periodisation’ is traditionally associated with the fitness component. However, football periodisation means the periodisation of football as a whole and not just the periodisation of football fitness. So, football fitness training is an integral part of football periodisation, similar to tactical training, game insight training and football technique training. The same is true in all other team sports. Any training session in which players are forced to adapt to new game situations requires accurate planning to optimise the training effect within that session and to avoid negative consequences for the next training sessions.
During this 3-day course, Raymond Verheijen will present universal terminology, definitions, and explanatory theory for all the different types of training in team sports. Next, he will introduce guidelines for designing the different types of training sessions and for developing methodological steps between sessions. Finally, these steps will be the building blocks for developing the team periodisation from day to day, week to week and month to month. Within this team periodisation, there will be special attention to individual differences between players. This approach is called ‘Individual Periodisation within Team Periodisation’.
During this course, there will be special attention to ‘game insight training’ to develop more ‘creative’ players. Although football players have to make thousands of bigger and smaller decisions during the game, the concept of ‘decision making’ is missing in the traditional and incorrect reference of ‘technical, tactical, physical, mental’. The reason for this is that decision making is traditionally also considered to be ‘tactical’. A player who excels at making good decisions is often incorrectly called a ‘tactically strong player’. The term ‘tactical’ has to do with strategy at team level which is something completely different compared to the decision making by an individual player. Terminology like ‘individual tactics’ is incorrect. In reality, coaches are referring to the individual intentions players try to accomplish with the help of their game insight.
The fact that decision making by a player is traditionally swept under the ‘tactical carpet’ explains why many coaches cover both aspects during tactical training. One moment they coach how two or more players have to ‘communicate’ better to reduce misunderstandings. The next moment they coach the decision making by an individual player. As coaching at team level is less difficult compared to coaching the specific details within the decisions of individual players, most coaches pay more attention to the first aspect during tactical training resulting in underdevelopment of decision making. The development of game insight of individual players will be snowed under. This is especially disastrous for youth player development if youth coaches mainly coach at the team level. This may also explain why in many countries people complain about a lack of so-called ‘creative’ players. In other words, putting decision making under the ‘tactical carpet’ has resulted in a lack of exceptional decision makers. This is like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
In this course, we will try to contribute to the solution for the above problem by introducing guidelines for ‘game insight training’ as well as ‘football technique training’, for coaches to develop better decision makers and, therefore, more ‘creative’ players.
To illustrate the designing of the methodological steps within the different types of training, Raymond will use video clips of the practical sessions during this year’s Mentorship (Galatasaray), Expert Meeting (Sporting Braga) and ProCourse (Sevilla FC).
Program
Tuesday, January 14
09:00 – 10:30 am Designing Tactical Training
10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 pm Designing Game Insight Training
12:30 – 01:30 pm Lunch break
01:30 – 03:00 pm Designing Football Technique Training
03:00 – 03:30 pm Coffee break
03:30 – 05:00 pm Designing Football Fitness Training
Wednesday January 15:
09:00 – 10:30 am Developing Methodical Steps within Tactical Training
10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 pm Developing Methodical Steps within Game Insight Training
12:30 – 01:30 pm Lunch break
01:30 – 03:00 pm Developing Methodical Steps within Football Technique Training
03:00 – 03:30 pm Coffee break
03:30 – 05:00 pm Developing Methodical Steps within Football Fitness Training
Thursday January 16:
09:00 – 10:30 am Periodisation of Tactical Training
10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 pm Periodisation of Game Insight Training
12:30 – 01:30 pm Lunch break
01:30 – 03:00 pm Periodisation of Football Technique Training
03:00 – 03:30 pm Coffee break
03:30 – 05:00 pm Periodisation of Football Fitness Training
LOCATION
Hatfield, Pretoria
DELEGATE FEE
The delegate fee will be 300 Euro (5950 Rand) for the 3 days. This fee includes the course, two coffee breaks and lunch per day, and the course certificate.
REGISTRATION
- Coaches who want to make a credit card payment can register below.
- Coaches who want to register with a bank transfer can send an email to info@fcevolution.com