LIBRO PUBLICADO: LA PROGRESIÓN LÓGICA "DEL 1VS1 AL 11VS11"

 Por fin la versión en castellano de mi último libro esta disponible. Ha sido casi un año de espera, pero ya podéis pedirlo AQUÍ.

PEDIDOS AQUÍ

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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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!!!💚🦅🤍

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.

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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!

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.

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.

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"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).

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All proceeds to support America SCORES from both courses.

BAY AREA FUTSAL CLUB-COMETA CAMP (ITALY)

Very happy for this new professional experience. This time in Como (Italy) where Bay Area Futsal Club will lead a multilingual futsal camp (Spanish, English and Italian). The camp is co-organised and hosted by Cometa Associazione Sportiva. The camp will take place between Monday to Friday and is led by the international Spanish futsal coach Dr. Daniel Berdejo-del-Fresno, currently coaching Bay Area Futsal Club (California, USA) and Luca Innocenti, former Italian U21 international futsal player.

Daniel and Luca have recruited an amazing group of coaches to support the camp and give the kids the best possible experience. The staff is made up (apart from Daniel and Luca) by:

• Guillermo Wallace: England Futsal International Player. He has been playing for Union Africa Ceutí, Real Betis FSN and Prato Calcio-a-5. He is also the owner of the Wallace Futsal Academy.

• Rob Morini: Founder and player for Bay Area Futsal Club (California, USA).

• Abdesslam "Alessio Dinho" Benlamrabet: Italian U21 International Futsal player and Prato Calcio-a-5 player.

• Victor Hugo Rodriguez: coach at Cometa Associazione Sportiva.

Once the camp is over, Dr. Daniel Berdejo-del-Fresno will deliver during the weekend (Saturday and Sunday) a Futsal Level 1 Certificate and a Futsal Level 2 Certificate. More information about this event can be found below.

BAY AREA FUTSAL CLUB 2017 REVIEW

HISTORY

Bay Area Futsal Club was created in July 2017 to lead the development and growth of futsal in the Bay Area community and the whole United States. Bay Area Futsal Club aims to established itself as the leading futsal organisation in the state and the country by giving players the opportunity to have life enhanced experiences through this fantastic sport.

 MISSION STATEMENT

The Bay Area Futsal Club’s mission is to boost futsal in our Bay Area community by providing players an opportunity to play futsal delivered by professional, top-level international coaches, play high level futsal and develop their full potential in a long-term plan regardless of their financial situation. Our main goal is to use futsal to educate players in values that will help them in their future as people and citizens.

PROGRAMMES

1. Youth Futsal Training Camps: Bay Area Futsal Club Training Camps are designed for players of all abilities, boys and girls, aged 7-23 years old. Bay Area Futsal Club run half day camps (9-12pm) or full day camps (9-4pm). We offer to travel to your club to deliver the Futsal Camp at your own facility. 

2. Monday Night Drop-In Clinic: Every Monday for the remainder of 2017 join us at Burlingamer Sports Center for a drop in youth clinic.Any skill level welcome on Mondays for ages 6 years - 12 years.  $10 each time you attend. 6pm-7pm - Recreational Level 7pm-8pm - Competitive level.

3. 1-on-1 Training: Our professional coaches organizer and run futsal specific training for beginning level to competitive level players. Contact our professional coaching team to set up your private training session

4. Futsal Coaching Clinic: Bay Area Futsal Club truly believe that ongoing coaching education and continuous professional development are key to develop players and citizens. One of our aims is provide top class futsal education accessible to every coach, parent, club or organization. Bay Area Futsal Club organize coaching clinics, workshops, seminars, courses, and mentoring programmes for coaches that are willing to learn more about futsal regardless their level or background. Bay Area Futsal Club organize these events all year round through the season but if your club or organization wish our services do not hesitate to contact us and we are more than happy to give you advice and a specific proposal for your organization. 

5. Bay Area Futsal Club Youth League 2018: Bay Area Futsal Club will be hosting a Winter Youth Futsal League at our partner Burlingamer Sports Center from January - March 2018. We are looking for competitive level teams (Premier/Gold level) to make this the highest level youth futsal league in the Bay Area.

Important information:

- Start date, January 6th 2018

- 8 games in season - Top 2 go into championship after 8 weeks

- Cost - $650

- Ages: Boys and Girls U8, U10, U12

- Location: Burlingamer Sports Center, Burlingame CA 94010

6. Bay Area Futsal Club Winter Clinics 2018: Bay Area Futsal Club will be hosting a series of Winter Clinics at our partner Burlingamer Sports Center from January 7th - March 4th 2018. Sessions will be on Sundays at 3pm and 4pm. Please check the flyer below for more info and resgistration options.

PARTNERS 

At Bay Area Futsal Club we are always looking for the right groups to partner with and continue our growth. We would like to thank all our partners below for getting involved and being a part of our clubs history.  

1. CP Athletic Performance: Bay Area Futsal Club and CP Athletic Development have launched a Futsal development partnership. CPAD is a Bermuda based athletic development academy with a Futsal Academy program of over 60 members aged 6 to 27. This is an exciting alliance sprouting from two years of collaboration between respective head coaches Dr. Daniel Berdejo del Fresno and Peter Rickards. Spanish national, Coach Daniel is Head of Performance Futsal and men’s team Head Coach at BAFC. He delivered his Level 1 international Futsal certificate in Bermuda in 2016 and will return to the island in the fall of 2017 for the second phase.  

 The partnership will also includes:
- Coaching & curriculum exchanges
- Membership development opportunities
- Assessment and grading strategies
- Coaches certification

 CP Athletic Development Academy is committed to the continued progression of their members. On the heels of the success of their Alevin team at the World Futsal Championships last month, this partnership meets the Academy’s strategic objectives include increased global exposure and elevated learning environments. 

2. Ginga Sport: Gingasport.com has become the exclusive official provider of equipment to Bay Area Futsal Club. Gingasport.com and Bay Area Futsal Club have agreed that Gingasport.com will be the main provider of futsal equipment to all of our members in Bay Area Futsal Club. Gingasports.com was set up in August 2006, originally to provide equipment and help develop the sport of futsal in the United Kingdom. Since then we have seen many developments in futsal, and lots of people now embrace the exciting sport. In this time Gingasports.com has grown, as futsal has become more popular, to become the leading provider of futsal equipment in the United Kingdom. 

In 2014, Gingasport.com were able to provide a range of quality futsal products at reasonable prices including futsal balls, futsal kits, futsal goals, scoreboards and futsal surfaces. Their futsal balls are age specific and therefore designed for all ages from four to sixteen to ensure that young people are able to develop their skills using the most suitable sized futsal balls. They aim to support the grassroots development of futsal and also support futsal clubs to create sport specific environments using our unique sports surfaces provided by SportsPartner International.

In 2015, Gingasport.com started to sell and deliver futsal product to the USA through Amazon where they have built strong relationships with clubs and organisations.

Gingasport.com are always on the lookout for opportunities to support and develop futsal, therefore  they have decided to support a new team, with clear ideas and bright future, Bay Area Futsal Club.

3. Wallace Futsal Academy is the leading futsal Academy in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz, south of Spain) and have more than 100 kids playing futsal aged 8 to 14. Founded by Guillermo Wallace, a professional futsal player with more than 50 caps for the England National Futsal Team and currently playing in Italy, to give something back to his hometown community where he grew up and developed the futsal skills that made him to be the player that he is today.

4. Burlingamer Sports Centre is Bay Area Futsal Club's official training center and home court. We consider ourselves very lucky to be partnering with Burlingamer Sports Center, the only true futsal facility in the Bay Area.

This will be the location of all home games and training sessions throughout the season as well as the location of our Winter youth league.

Thank you Burlingamer Sports Center, we hope to bring much success to our new home location!

2107 REVIEW 

When in July 2017 Lee Mitchell and Rob Morini explained their futsal proposal and offered me to be their Head of Performance and work with their adult team I could not reject it. Also, I could not imagine what we were going to achieve in just 6 months.

We had 3 tryouts in August where we recruited 17 players (3 goalkeepers and 14 outfields players) with an age average of 25 years old, 5 of them U23. One of our aims was to recruit young players to teach them the real futsal game as the future of futsal in this country will be on them very soon.

Bay Area Futsal Club vs. San Jose Legends Futsal at Burligamer on 16th December 2017. Last game of the year!!

Since September, when we started the training sessions Bay Area Futsal Club players have had 32 practices, 4 friendly games (Toros FC, Futsal Without Borders, San Jose Legends Futsal away and San Jose Legends Futsal home) and the Menlo College Futsal Tournament where we registered 2 teams. I have to admit that it has been difficult, some times even frustrating as some of the players never played futsal before, but now, after looking back I have to admit that I am very proud of this group of players. On Saturday night, 16th December 2017, they delivered the game plan against San Jose Legends Futsal perfectly (see picture below). Of course, we still have a long way to go, but the improvements showed on the court since we started back in July 2017 have been massive.

Pre-game plan delivered to the players in the morning of Saturday 16th December before the match against San Jose Legends Futsal.

 Now, we will enjoy a small break for Xmas where staff and players will recharge our batteries ready for the challenges awaiting for us in 2018:

- US Futsal Northwest Regional Futsal Championship, March 2018 (San Jose, USA).

- Pacific Rim International Futsal Cup, June 2018 (Hawaii, USA).

- US Futsal National Championship, July 2018 (TBC, USA).

- National League of Professional Futsal, March to August 2018 (USA).

- An International Tournament most likely in Europe or Asia.

Thank you very much Adam Chazin-Gray, Adonis Tuman (GK), Alberto Millan, Andres Palomo, Enzo Cabili, German Ariel Lopez, Hugo Conchas, Joao Felipe Costa, Joel Castro (GK), Josue Eliseo "Joey" Galvez, Lee Mitchell (C), Michael Cordoba Chaves, Miguel Moran, Pablo Perez, Rob Morini (C), Sergio Rivera and Victor Miramontes for letting me coach you. You all are doing great and if you wish we will achieve great things in futsal!

Finally, I would like to thank to our main sponsor Ocean Honda of Burlingame for their help with our Club.

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BOOK RELEASED: "FUTSAL: TECHNICAL & TACTICAL CONCEPTS"

Although with almost 18-month delay I am very glad to announce that finally the futsal book that I was writing with Jonny Steel and Dave Jennings has been published. Also, I would like to thank Vava Marques (USA Futsal Assistant Coach, World United Futsal Academy and Stanford United Soccer Club) and Guillermo Wallace (England Fustal and Real Betis FSN player) for writing the preface and prologue of the book. I hope you find it helpful. Enjoy it!

Title: Futsal: Technical & Tactical Concepts.

Authors: Berdejo-del-Fresno, D., Steel, J. Jennings, D.

Editor: Asociación Didáctica Andalucia.

ISSN: 978-84-939866-5-0

Year: 2015

The book is in an online format and completely free. To download the book just here.

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THE 5 VALUES TO WORK IN A TEAM

As probably everyone knows in September 2015 after returning from my coaching experience in Palo Alto (USA) I accepted the role of Head of Coaching & Sports Science at the International Futsal Academy based in Loughborough. One of the jobs that I have in the new role is to be the Head Coach for Loughborough United Futsal Club competing in the FA National Futsal League Midlands Division 2. At the beginning of season we established as our main target to get promoted to Division 1, which meant to win the League. We started the season with a defeat against our main rivals. Since then we have won all the games however I was not very happy. I felt that the team had a lack of something... and I started to think. Well, let's go to be honest... overthink.

As everyone knows too, during the last 2 seasons leading Sheffield FC Futsal we had success given the different circunstancies in each season. Specially, during the season 2012-2013. The most successful season ever for the Club. A season that I will never forget. A season that gave me too many friends. I know that comparisons are always bad, but my target was to achieve that level in the new team. Since those players, that group of players, that TEAM had something special. And I know that if any team wishes to achieve what Sheffield FC Futsal achieved that season there have to be some values in the changing room. An internal force that drives the team to success.

That overthink gave me... well... Xesco Espar (Former FC Barcelona Handball Head Coach) gave me those internal forces. Some time ago, I read his book "Jugar con el corazón. La excelencia no es suficiente" (Playing with the heart. Excellence is not enough). Xesco Espar explains the 5 values that are needed to have to work in a team. Five values that all the Sheffield FC Futsal players had and showed on the futsal court in every single training session and game. 

Therefore, once I realised that our problem was not technical, physical, tactical or social, I decided to have a meeting with the captains first and the players then to explain those five values needed in a team sport and show them a couple of videos. 

Let's go with the 5 values from Xesco Espar's book:

 

1. Generosity: Basically, every player has to give to the team more than the team expects from him. If a player is not doing his job, I have to do my job and his job because I know that in a reverse situation he would do the same for me. Probably, you will understand that with the following video:

2. Humility: If you have a bad day, you must let people help you. Let your mates shine. Let your mates take the penalty if you have a bad day even if you are the usual taker.

3. Confidence: Team dares to step forward when situation is not clear. As Xesco Espar explains, confidence is like a table. The more legs, the more solid the table is. If after a mistake, the player is punished, it is like cutting off one of the legs of the table. However, if after something good by the player, you give him positive feedback you are building his confidence.

4. Enthusiasm: Enthusiasm is everything, without it, we are nothing. Besides, enthusiasm is contagious and its lack too. So the lack of enthusiasm is very dangerous for the team. Coaches must be leaders in creating this enviroment. Teammates on the bench, must encourage all the time. That encouragement will make your teammate to win the 50-50 challenge.

5. Commitment: Commitment starts when fun finishes. It is really easy to commit to something when is funny and works perfectly. But that it is not commitment. Commitment is when we show the same values when things do not go well.

I finished the meeting showing the video that Tommy Pearson, my Performance Analyst at Sheffield FC Futsal, made to show/motivate the players in the changing room before playing the semi final of the Grand Finals 2013 against Baku United. A game with a cruel end, but that resumes a perfect season against a professional team. 

And a video that shows all those 5 values needed to success in a team enviroment. I asked my players to find all those 5 values, and I think the did it.

Eight days after the meeting; the chemistry, environment and relationships in the Loughborough United FC team have improved. We are a better team, we are a TEAM, and we are a bit closer to get the target that we wanted to achieve at the beginning of the season. Only 3 more games.

THANK YOU TO ALL THE SHEFFIELD FC FUTSAL'S PLAYERS DURING THE SEASON 2012-2013. 

YOU SHOWED ME SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

YOU TAUGHT ME A LOT. 

I AM A BETTER COACH THANKS TO YOU. 

YOU WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY HEART.