Saturday 14 October 2023

AFC FUTSAL CUP THAILAND 2024 QUALIFIERS

⚽️AFC Futsal Asian Cup Thailand 2024 there we go! Extremely proud of each one of these team members. Almost 2 months of hard work, finally paid off. Holland, Brazil and then Saudi Arabia training camps were a perfect preparation to qualify from the “group of death”. Yallah!!!馃挌馃馃

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Thursday 10 August 2023

ENGLAND TOUR 2023

馃摙馃彺鬆仹鬆仮鬆仴鬆伄鬆仹鬆伩 Already in England! First time since 2019. Very exciting days ahead visiting friends, clubs and former players.

馃搷31st Jul: Grimsby Futsal League
馃搷1st Aug: West Yorkshire Futsal Club
馃搷5th Aug: Eagle UK Team Futsal Club

馃棐️ Special thanks to Adam Oldham and Kevin Bryant for organising everything.
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1WgdWpdaS_NSZFceUxV3IEbQ3EXYEUJxk
1️⃣ Day: Happy to meet former players Tony Bartlett & Curtis Mason (England futsal player), former colleague and current International Futsal Acadmey & Loughborough Futsal Club head coach Jose Llorente Parra & spend some time in Loughborough on my way up to Sheffield. Tomorrow more!
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2️⃣ Day: Fantastic day coaching kids in Grimsby with Adam Oldham. An honour to reunite again with English futsal pioneer and good friend Kevin Bryant. A true legend in futsal. Also, thanks to former players Ben Mortlock (ex England futsal captain) and Jack Burrows for joining us.
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3️⃣ Day: Good meeting with Connor & Jamie from West Yorkshire Futsal Club. Allso, I had the opportunity to deliver a session for their men’s team which will be entering into the National Futsal League for the 2023/2024 season. All the best with this new experience for this group of talented players
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4️⃣ Day: Some pictures and a well written article by Kevin Bryant (Grimsby Futsal League) about our visit to Grimsby. Thank you my futsal pioneer friend! As Kevin mentioned in the article, we will be again on Saturday at Hull University with Eagle UK Team Futsal Club teams.

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5️⃣ Day: Another productive day meeting Richard Hollingsworth and Richard Moore (ex Sheffield FC Futsal physio and player), Jos茅 Llorente again (Loughborough Students Futsal) and Joe Payne and Connor Woodworth (Bolton Futsal Club).
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6️⃣ Day: Today, witnessed a 3-5 years old sessions where a Premier League football club scout goes often to look for players. Speechless馃馃か
Looking forward to being at tomorrow’s session with Eagle UK Team Futsal Club.
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1mZOaJBkI6VgzBrU20z-exMidmALlb0-t
7️⃣ Day: What a day! Starting in Hull with Eagle UK Team Futsal Club. Then, meeting for the 2nd time this week former players Curtis Mason & Tony Bartlett. Ending with my friend from Bermuda, Coach Pete Rickards. Huge thanks to English futsal pioneer, Kevin Bryant, Adam Oldham and Tony Bartlett.
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1vlS4joikGvGPufGOD9tOJ4K6XQiXa27ahttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1XKimjmWAw2Ni4hJREgpvScbGjXMNIXQ1https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1hqAOyZ9pCWFDd-oCQ1bi79c7dOE0D4ANhttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1ZnayJMA97xXYxqbM6I2rlG15RrKHuEOW
8️⃣ Day: England 馃彺鬆仹鬆仮鬆仴鬆伄鬆仹鬆伩 tour finished馃敋! Outstanding days spent seeing old friends (apologies馃檹to those I couldn’t meet). One more time, huge & special acknowledgement to Kevin Bryant, Adam Oldham & Tony Bartlett. Your hospitality has been unforgettable.
馃敎Back to Saudi Arabia 馃嚫馃嚘 soon
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Tuesday 20 June 2023

3rd EDITION INTERNATIONAL SOCCER CAMP (LENTATE, ITALY)

Don't miss out this opportunity and sign up for this soccer camp in Comune di Lentate sul Seveso organised by good friends. Guillermo Wallace, England futsal Sicurlube Regalbuto player, together with Luca Innocenti, former Italy U21 futsal player will lead this third multi language camp.



Monday 1 May 2023

INTERVIEWS IN LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS

It is an honour to be featured again at "La Revista de Utebo" N141-April 2023 published by the Ayuntamiento de Utebo (Utebo Council). Extremely proud to represent Utebo all around the world. Special thanks to Juan Luis Felipe and 脫scar Nieto Yoldi for all the logistics and the interview.

INTERVIEW FULL ACCESS HERE!


Also, delighted to have a write-up at the regional newspaper Heraldo de Arag贸n at the sports section. Always happy to share with everybody my professional experience representing Arag贸n around the globe.

Journalist: 脫scar Nieto Yoldi

Photographer: Rub茅n Losada

INTERVIEW FULL ACCESS HERE!

FITNESS TESTS & HYDRATION STATUS TO MONITOR THE FATIGUE IN INTERNATIONAL FUTSAL PLAYERS

Happy to see our paper "Fitness tests & hydration status to monitor the fatigue in international futsal players" published in the February-March issue of TRANCES: Revista de Transmisi贸n Conocimiento Educativo y de la Salud

FULL ACCESS TO THE PAPER HERE!

Berdejo-del-Fresno, D. (2023). Tests f铆sicos y estado de hidrataci贸n para monitorizar la fatiga en jugadores internacionales de futsal. Trances, 15(2):81-100

Tuesday 17 January 2023

EDITORIAL 80: EM脕SF REVISTA DIGITAL DE EDUCACI脫N F脥SICA

It was an honour to be invited to write the editorial for the number 80 of the "Em谩sF" Revista Digital de Educaci贸n F铆sica. The topic of this editorial is my personal experience coaching the Libya Futsal National Team in the last CAF African Futsal Cup of Nation celebrated in Layounne (Western Sahara) in 2020. It is written in Spanish and its title is: "Copa de 脕frica de futsal-Marruecos 2020: Reflexiones y Ense帽anzas". Check the links below to download either the editorial alone or the full journal.


DOWNLOAD THE EDITORIAL HERE!


DOWNLOAD THE FULL NUMBER 80 HERE!


If you prefer to check the digital version of the journal in an online reading app, please follow the next link or click here to go directly. 

Thursday 8 December 2022

SAUDI ARABIA FUTSAL NATIONAL TEAM ADVENTURE

It has been a while since my last post. Apologies! But it has been a long year and half that I will try to resume through little text and a lot of pictures.

On the 4th of July while I was in San Diego, half working and half relaxing I received some messages from Andreu Plaza Alvarez. A week later, when I as already back in the Bay Area, Andreu and I had a conversation and we agreed our new adventure. After 10 years at FC Barcelona, Andreu was going to sign with Saudi Arabia Football Federation as head coach for the Saudi Arabia Futsal National Team and he offered me to go with him.

On the 6th of August we landed in Riyadh on our way to Dammam, the city where we would live. The adventure begins!

AUGUST 2021: OUR FIRST TRUOUTS


APRIL 2022: ASIAN CUP QUALIFIERS-UAE-JOB DONE!


MAY 2022: GULF OLYMPIC GAMES-KUWAIT- WON SILVER MEDAL!



MAY 2022 WEST ASIAN FUTSAL CUP-KUWAIT-WON SILVER MEDAL!


SEPTEMBER 2022-ASIA FUTSAL CUP-KUWAIT-AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT!


OCTOBER 2022: NATIONAL COACHING CONFERENCE-RIYADH-

And we hope that the adventure continues for a long period of time. It has been amazing to be working again with a national team, adding new experiences to my life and learning about a new country and a new culture. Let's hope 2023 can be as successful as 2022 was!

Monday 22 February 2021

INJURY PREVENTION IN THE WORLD'S BEST SPORT: FUTSAL

Tremendous honour to collaborate with Global Sport Care YouTube Channel hosted by Dr Markus Laupheimer from Swiss Sport Care covering futsal, injuries, & prevention. Interview brought up great memories!

Below you can see some slides from the interview.





Full PDF from the presentation can be downloaded completely free from HERE!

Also, to watch the interview simply click here or watch below.





Tuesday 16 February 2021

ONLINE FUTSAL CERTIFICATES (AMERICA SCORES COACHING SUMMIT 2020)

Last year I presented at the America SCORES Coaching Summit 2020. Presentations were some of the top upvoted out of them all. Due to the high demand for access, America SCORES had it cut up into individual lessons and plan to make it available on their CoachTube channel.



"Fitness Conditioning for Futsal Players on a National Team"

I cover my personal experiences coaching at the England National Team, the PFL USA National Team and the Libya National focusing on the fitness aspects, some conditioning drills, fitness tests and how to control and monitor players' recovery and regeneration.




"Futsal & SSG: How they benefit soccer"

All about my thoughts about the football family, a logical progression to teach it and how futsal fits into this football pyramid (1v1-(2v2)-3v3-5v5-7v7-9v9-11v11).




All proceeds to support America SCORES from both courses.

Friday 8 January 2021

ONLINE FUTSAL COACHING EDUCATION PROGRAMME

Hello everyone, please see below the online Futsal Coaching Education Programme that Sergio Gargelli (Head Coach for China Futsal National Team) and I (Head of Performance for Bay Area Futsal Club) are delivering together since September to several organisations such as the Futsal Association of Trinidad & Tobago. Have a look to the video, the pictures and the info and let us know if you have any questions.

The programme has four different levels covering everything related to futsal from grassroot to elite level. Also, how futsal can help to develop the modern football player. We are always open to collaborate with different associations, federations or clubs. 
 

SERGIO GARGELLI


DANIEL BERDEJO-DEL-FRESNO

THE COACHING COURSES LADDER

BASIC LEVEL

LEVEL 1

LEVEL 2

LEVEL PRO