TRAINING CONTENT CONTROL TOOL

Excel tool to track, control & monitor content of training sessions published last week. Each day all the exercises' content is tracked and registered. Graphs can be created to analyse and compare the contents more drilled.

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RECOVERY & REGENERATION TOOLS

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1️⃣ Recovery & Regeneration Points System (Kentta & Hassmen, 1999) used at the Saudi Arabia Futsal National Team 🇸🇦

2️⃣ Post Match Recovery Menu (slightly modified) (Aceña, 2022)

3️⃣ Arsenal FC 150 Point Recovery (Power, 2022)

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!!!💚🦅🤍

ENGLAND TOUR 2023

📢🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Already in England! First time since 2019. Very exciting days ahead visiting friends, clubs and former players.

📍31st Jul: Grimsby Futsal League

📍1st Aug: West Yorkshire Futsal Club

📍5th Aug: Eagle UK Team Futsal Club

🗒️ Special thanks to Adam Oldham and Kevin Bryant for organising everything.

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!

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.

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

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.

ARTICLE HERE

5️⃣ Day: Another productive day meeting Richard Hollingsworth and Richard Moore (ex Sheffield FC Futsal physio and player), José Llorente again (Loughborough Students Futsal) and Joe Payne and Connor Woodworth (Bolton Futsal Club).

6️⃣ Day: Today, witnessed a 3-5 years old sessions where a Premier League football club scout goes often to look for players. Speechless🤐🤫

Looking forward to being at tomorrow’s session with Eagle UK Team Futsal Club.

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.

8️⃣ Day: England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 tour finished🔚! Outstanding days spent seeing old friends (apologies🙏to those I couldn’t meet). One more time, huge & special acknowledgement to Kevin Bryant, Adam Oldham & Tony Bartlett. Your hospitality has been unforgettable.

🔜Back to Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 soon

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.

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 Óscar 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 Aragón at the sports section. Always happy to share with everybody my professional experience representing Aragón around the globe.

Journalist: Óscar Nieto Yoldi

Photographer: Rubén 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 Transmisión Conocimiento Educativo y de la Salud. 

FULL ACCESS TO THE PAPER HERE!

Berdejo-del-Fresno, D. (2023). Tests físicos y estado de hidratación para monitorizar la fatiga en jugadores internacionales de futsal. Trances, 15(2):81-100

EDITORIAL 80: EMÁSF REVISTA DIGITAL DE EDUCACIÓN FÍSICA

It was an honour to be invited to write the editorial for the number 80 of the "EmásF" Revista Digital de Educación Física. 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 África de futsal-Marruecos 2020: Reflexiones y Enseñanzas". 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. 

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!

SUMMER FUTSAL CAMPS

 

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.