Training football

Training programs

Here coaches can find different content that links the theoretical developments of Luís Vilar and colleagues to operational skill acquisition and decision-making enhancement programs. Three main topics are provided and viewers are invited to suggest the developement and posting of significant other theoretical and/or practical aspects of Football. Send us an email here and let us know what you would like to see. Hope you enjoy!

Exercises

Ecological research on performance analysis has shown which information players use to act. The main theoretical principal of constraints-led approach is that coaches should manipulate gas constraints in order to facilitate players perceptual attunement to such sources of information. Removing such information from the task will force players to rely on different sources than they do in performance settings, inducing the emergence of different behaviours. Conversely, representative task designs are the one that enhance skill acquisition an decision-making transfers to performance settings. Here you can find three sub-groups of tasks with the goal to score goals, maintain ball possession or both. Just click and see!

Session plans

Do you want to understand through different examples how to applied the findings of Luís Vilar and colleagues in a training session? Start by defining the goal of your session and that will be the last exercise. Then design the previous exercise with a small decrease of difficulty and complexity. Continue this process until you have a set of exercises in an increasing degree of difficulty and complexity. Bear in mind that for a 45min session 3 exercises should be enough, for a 60min session 4 exercises should be enough and for a 90min session 5 exercises should do it. Just click and see!

5 min tutorials

Here coaches and significant others may find different topics developed short video clips of 5 minutes. Topics may go from exercises, to session plans or to any other topic of interest to the football coaching community. You may also send us a link that you want to see posted here. You may also write Luís Vilar and ask him to develop a certain topic of your interest. Hope you enjoy it!