Domestic Pathway

Football is a team sport so all players should be trained in the team context. To plan this team training the coach will develop the team periodisation for a carefully balanced team training load. However, not all players have the same football fitness. Therefore, for some players the team training load will be too high or too low. To manage the diversity in football fitness within the squad every football coach must develop the ability to tailor the training load for each and every player. This so-called individual periodisation will avoid the over- or undertraining of players as well as unnecessary injuries.

In this course the delegates will learn about the principles of individual periodisation. In the second half of the course these principles will be applied at both first team level (adult players) and academy level (youth players). Coaches will learn when and how to reduce or increase the training load for specific players. It will also be demonstrated that the rehabilitation of players is not something isolated but also a type of individual periodisation within the team periodisation. This knowledge will allow the coach to have a much better and closer look at the progress of his players during their rehab process.