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Hi Coach! You are about to start the journey of your life.
This is more than a course—it’s a career-defining experience. Under the guidance of Prof. Vítor Frade, the creator of Tactical Periodisation®, you will join an exclusive community of elite coaches who have transformed how football is understood and played at the highest level.
Coaches who embraced this methodology
Luís Castro
Miguel Cardoso
Carlos Carvalhal
Vítor Pereira
“The game is not the sum of its parts. It is an unbreakable wholeness.”
— Prof. Vítor Frade
The game is not the sum of its parts. It is an unbreakable wholeness.”
— Prof. Vítor Frade
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PROGRAME
Course Contents
1.1. What’s the understanding of Tactical Periodisation® in contrast with the rooted conventional.
- Evolutive and chronological synthesis of the training paradigm.
1.2. Football, a “Fenómeno Antroposocialtotal” (possible translation: Totalanthroposocial phenomenon).
- The issue of complexity as a necessity for understanding the phenomenology of football.
- The several dimensions of the phenomenon (show business, economical, social, political…).
- Other sports inside the phenomenon: futsal and beach soccer.
1.3. The exaltation of “INTERaction”, a structural-functional invariant of the structure of the performance of FOOTBALL for the (re)conceptualization of
Football, the Game, the Play and the Team.
- Construction or project algorithm which equation is the strategic interaction of asymmetric information.
- Dynamics of loads versus modeling of a construction or project / process «algorithm», the “morfociclo padrão” (possible translation: pattern
morphocycle).
1.4. Morfociclo padrão (Pattern Morphocycle): the symbolic plane.
1.5. The problematization of the «being in shape in sports» in top performance considering 3 dilemmas / fundamental (tri)binomials:
- Performance – Fatigue – Recovery.
- Collective – Individual.
- Methodology versus Method(s).
2.1. The football team understood as a homeodynamic, adaptive and dynamic system and necessarily as an evolutive homeostasis.
2.2. The game of football built by “moments” or categorizing collective patterns?
2.2.1. The game as a continuum, an «inteireza inquebrantável» (no possible translation – neologism), and therefore a game play which nature is
hierarchical dynamics.
2.2.2. The game as an unpredictable, open, chaotic (deterministic) phenomenon with fractal organization but with an underlying macro
predictability.
2.2.3. The necessity to recognize the game play and the game’s Fractalities. “To reduce without impoverishing”.
2.3. The understanding of the game dimensions (tactical, technical, physical, psychological, strategical) under the light of complexity
2.4. The necessity of recognizing football as a game governed by (Super-dimension) Tactics, as an a priori aspirable and gradually modelable throughout
the training process.
- The elevation of Tactics to a super-dimension.
- The Tactical-strategic dimension.
- The tactical-technical dimension «a vicariância» (no possible translation – neologism).
- The quantification of quality.
2.5. The super-dimension Tactics as an acculturation of game play.
2.5.1. Intelligence or intelligences, from plural understanding, to Game Intelligence as the only fundamental conditional capacity.
3.1. Training as an acquisition process, a systemic modeling.
- The game idea (previous intention).
- The Game model (biological modeling).
- Game structure(s) versus game system(s).
3.2. Macro, meso e micro game principles. The interactive principles promoted by criterion.
3.2.1. “Self” engendering of the principles.
3.3. Intentionality in modeling the process as praxiology.
3.3.1.The Game Idea as Previous Intension.
3.3.2. From Previous Intension to Acting Intensions.
3.3.3. From Acting Intentions to a collective culture (the individual in the collective)
4.1. The game of football: metabolic implications. What is really relevant to promote during training?
4.2. Parabiosis and exaltation of collective and individual performance.
- The self-renewal cycle of living matter and Roux, Arndt Schultz’s law.
- The temporally delayed effect of performances.
4.3. Algorithmic pattern: specificities of “Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday”.
- Fundamental contexts of propensity..
- Complementary contexts of propensity as «acquisitive in assisted interaction».
4.4. Adaptation / adaptability, structural-functional invariance with acculturating homeostasis, a consequence of the acquisitive process that
codifies temporality.
4.4.1. How activity provoques adaptations to the muscles?
- The muscle is heterogeneous and adaptable.
4.4.2. The “mecano-biological” sustainability of wednesday.
- The cellular biology of the muscle.
4.4.3. From the “physiology of the sprint” to the analogy of Friday.
4.5 The transcendental plane of Specificity – a conditional procedural condition (the context with ONE sense).
- The double function of the ATP and the Specificity.
- Weight training versus Specificity.
- What is “strength” training for Tactical Periodization?
5.1. «Study cases». The hierarchy for the process modeling, expressed in the systematic repetition of the Morfociclo Padrão (Pattern Morphocycle).
- Sunday (competition): maximum demand day. What are the implications on the (weekly) operationalization of the game play?
- Monday (1st day after competition): day off.
- Tuesday (2nd day after competition): Recovery.
- Wednesday (3rd day after competition-1st “acquisitive” day)
- Thursday (4th day after competition-2nd acquisitive day)
- Friday (2 days before the next competition – 3rd “acquisitive” day)
- Saturday (1 day before the next competition): Competition-oriented recovery.
5.2. Training unit = structural and functional hierarchy or fractal operationality of the process.
5.3. Morphocycle for matches separated by 6 days (sunday to saturday).
5.4. Morphocycle for a week with 3 matches.
5.5. Adaptation of Morphocycle days (2 or 3 practices a week).
5.6. Performance-recovery management of the non-used players.
6.1. Methodological Principle of the Propensities.
6.1.1. The manifestation of Specificity through contexts of propensity.
6.1.2. Contexts of propensity versus context of exercise.
6.1.3. Relative maximum intensity and focus on training and competition.
6.2. Methodological Principle of Horizontal Alternation in (S) specificity.
6.2.1. The Self-Renewing Cycle of Living Matter and Roux, Arndt Schultz’s Law, reinforcing the need for this methodological principle.
6.2.2. Getting used to a weekly pattern that contemplates the various dimensions of our game play.
6.2.3.Tactical Fatigue.
6.3. Methodological Principle of Complex Progression.
6.3.1 Dynamic and non-linear progression based on a game play.
6.3.2 From less to more complex in the specificities of Specificity.
6.3.3. The relationship between mind and habit in acquiring knowing over a knowing to do.
6.4. The hierarchy for the process modeling, expressed in the systematic repetition of the Morfociclo Padrão (Pattern Morphocycle), the construction
algorithm.
7.1. A Game Play: the driver of the team and player (s) process from the beginning to the end of the season. Problematization of some
«problem-themes»:
- Non-existence of phases, stages, periods…
- The preparatory period versus pre-season…
- First week: presentation of the Game Idea (as a previous intention) and adaptation to the effort.
- The beggining of the season: organism adaptation without external help.
- Strategy in the broad sense and in the narrow sense.
- Observation and analysis of the own team and the opponent’s team.
- Observation and “monitoring” of the players performance. New technologies?
7.2. The emerging of the Specificity in different contexts. Study cases and practical applications in:
- Professional football.
- Non-professional football.
- National teams.
- Young football teams (early specialization).
7.3. «Fenomenotécnica» (Phenomenotechnics). The trainer as a “brain-mechanism” that regulates the process or the opening of systems to “retro-feeding”(maybe
the translation is feedback) or causal non-linearity.
7.3.1. The guided discovery.
7.3.2. The importance of intervention during the propensity contexts, or the development of non-mechanical mechanisms.
7.3.3 Leadership, a phenomenotechnics dimension.
8.1. Conscience, a Subjective and Plural concept, on a Plural Phenomenon, but objectionable.
8.2. The necessity of a football with a feeling (Futebol Sentido), and the need to give sense to the feelings of that football, the key of the process.
- The emotions (and the feelings) as lead actors in the induction of reason, of the best decisions and learning of a game play.
- The importance of affectivity during the process.
- More than somatic markers, markers of a game play.
8.3. The creation of habits as presuppositions for a good game play, in anticipation of what happens.
- The habit and the neurobiological economy.
8.4. Bodily (Inter)Action, Game Intelligence as a Bodily Knowledge (InCorporAção).
- A new understanding of acting «PercepAção», a knowing over a knowing to do.
- Bodily Action (InCorporAção).
- Bodily Intelligence, a delegation process that needs an Articulation of Meaning to be a Cooperative Intentionality.
9.1 Development of a Diary along the course including reflections of all the lectures, doubts, insights, readings and conclusions.
9.2 Morphocycle development in work context.
At the end of the course there should be one single document, in the format you wish, comprehending the whole path of the course.
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