Rui Sá Lemos, Certified Trainer at our school, and coach with experience ate FC Porto, Vizela FC and Portimonense SC. PT: Looking at human beings, they benefit from a certain consistency, such as the circadian cycle or the same number of days between games. But nowadays all that doesn't exist. Looking at your experience, what do you take into account to try to minimize the impact of these constant changes? Rui Sá Lemos: Yeah, I think, first of all, it's very related to what you do in the drill and the message you send to the players. [...]

Rui Sá Lemos, certified trainer at our school, and coach with experience ate FC Porto, Vizela FC and Portimonense SC. PT: Can you tell us about your experience of understanding the theoretical side of Tactical Periodization and then moving on to the practical side? Rui Sá Lemos: I think that when people think about and read Tactical Periodization, Miguel, they really need to – like there is a video of a Chinese kid doing this. You know that video where he's in school, doesn't want to learn, and does this to try to put information in. And [...]

Miguel Lopes Head Coach and Tactical Periodization Tutor and currently head coach of FC Porto's youth teams. PT: ¿Cómo se relaciona la idea de sistemas complejos se relaciona con la idea de la fisiología de redes o esta fisiología integrativa que plantea la metodología? Miguel: Bueno, de hecho, se relaciona con todas las demás áreas del conocimiento. Esto tiene que ver más con el área de la epistemología y con la manera en que percibimos el conocimiento. Porque, de hecho, si utilizamos las gafas de la teoría de la complejidad y observamos todas las distintas áreas de [...]

Hugo Freitas, es entrenador asistente de Custódio en SC Braga hace 6 años. Entrenador UEFA A y Máster Universitario en Deporte Infantil y Juvenil. PT: ¿Cómo ve esta nueva realidad, esta multiplicidad de campos en el proceso de entrenamiento? Hugo Freitas: Ya tuve algunas charlas con personas que estan en administración o en coordinación de clubes y ya tienen esas preocupaciones. ¿Por qué? Porque aquello que estamos a hablar, yo creo que las personas hablan del entrenamiento como un conjunto de partes. Y cuando digo entrenamiento no es solo en el campo. Entrenamiento del gimnasio, del nutricionista, [...]

Bruno Oliveira Assistant Football Coach in Al-Arabe SC, Al-Duhail Sports Club, Leicester City FC, Swansea City AFC, Queens Park Rangers FC, FC Porto, Lekhwiya, Beijing, Renhe FCCo-author of “Mourinho – why so many wins?” He as a Degree in Physical Education and Sports by University of Porto – Sports Faculty (focus Football). TP: How you deal with this reality of the Performance Departments? Like everything, it's a lot of common sense and a lot of man management skills. You cannot arrive, in my opinion, or if you are Mourinho, Guardiola or Klopp, you arrive and you do whatever [...]

Hugo Freitas, es entrenador asistente de Custódio en SC Braga hace 6 años. Entrenador UEFA A y Máster Universitario en Deporte Infantil y Juvenil. PT: ¿Cuáles son sus funciones en el equipo técnico de Custódio (entrenador principal) en el SC Braga? Hugo Freitas: Como tú has dicho, yo empecé con el equipo B, o sea, salí de un equipo en cuanto a coordinador de un equipo pequeño y la persona de Wender, que era el entrenador y que ahora está como asistente de Nuno Espírito Santo, me invitó para el braga B, donde nos teníamos conocido en [...]

Bruno Oliveira Assistant Football Coach in Al-Arabe SC, Al-Duhail Sports Club, Leicester City FC, Swansea City AFC, Queens Park Rangers FC, FC Porto, Lekhwiya, Beijing, Renhe FCCo-author of “Mourinho – why so many wins?” He as a Degree in Physical Education and Sports by University of Porto – Sports Faculty (focus Football). TP: Could you explain to us what is mainly your role with the coaches you worked with so far? Yeah, I think the other day I was doing the maths and I think it's eight or nineth coach now. So obviously each one of them has [...]

David Tenney is the High Performance Director of Austin FC, in MLS, a former Master’s Student and a Certified Coach by the Official School of Tactical Periodisation®, and currently is finishing our Training for Trainers Course.  He talked with us about this new age that football is currently living, where data and Performance Departments are consolidated in Football reality. TP: Have you ever felt that Tactical Periodization® didn’t work in this group and how you manage that if it ever happened? In my perspective, obviously I'm only 15 months into feeling like I'm using it. I think [...]

Xavier Tamarit, es entrenador asistente de Mauricio Pelegrino en Cádiz FC, ha pasado por clubes como Club Universidad de Chile, CA Vélez Sarsfield, Southampton FC, Valencia CF, D. Alavés, CD Leganés y CA Independiente. Escribió el libro Periodización Táctica vs Periodización Táctica. PT: Cómo son esas primeras semanas, esos primeros días con el equipo, qué gestión a nivel conceptual, a nivel metodológico, Tendiendo en cuenta que el convencional nos habla de que es necesario hacer un trabajo general al inicio para generar una base de sostén, y es algo muy contrastante con lógica que está en la [...]

David Tenney is the High Performance Director of Austin FC, in MLS, a former Master’s Student and a Certified Coach by the Official School of Tactical Periodisation, and currently is finishing our Training for Trainers Course.  He talked with us about this new age that football is currently living, where data and Performance Departments are consolidated in Football reality. TP: Yes, because the line between losing control and not losing it is very thin. And the dose control is essential... David Tenney: If they trust you, on the Thursday your session can be at the highest level [...]