Professional Master on Tactical Periodisation

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Application Fee & Process

Application Fee: EUR 50

This fee is NOT the full price of the Professional Master. It is a one-time payment to submit your application.

After your admission is approved, you will be invited to register and proceed with the payment plan according to the version you choose.

– All information about dates and deadlines is available in the application form below –

3 STEPS TO APPLY FOR THE PROFESSIONAL MASTER IN TACTICAL PERIODISATION®

  1. Fill in the Application Form
  2. Pay the Application Fee
    Click the button anywhere on this page to complete your payment of EUR 50.
  3. Attend Online Interview
    If your application is approved, you will be contacted to schedule a short online interview.

Hi Coach!

You are about to start the journey of your life!

This Professional Master and our Official School will boost your career to the level you have always dreamed of.

From the hands and classes of Prof. Vítor Frade himself, emerged coaches such as Vítor Pereira, Rui Quinta, Carlos Carvalhal, Miguel Cardoso, Luis Castro, André Villas-Boas, Pep Lijnders and Vítor Matos, to name just a few…

Now it’s their turn to share this astonishing knowledge with the world!

With YOU!

Don’t miss this one-in-a-million opportunity to be part of this team.

Masters Versions

 

CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT

Two options. One goal: your transformation as a coach.

1. SPECIAL VERSION

  • B-Learning: Live streaming classes, E-learning content, and 3 in-person sessions in OPorto, Portugal.
  • 3 visits to OPorto, Portugal

DATES: January 27 – December 31, 2027

DURATION: 11 months online + 3 in-person sessions in Portugal

ONLINE SCHEDULE: 2 hours/session, 4 sessions/month from 8pm to 10pm (Lisbon time)*

*Schedule may change based on trainer availability and time zones.

LANGUAGE: English

VENUE: OPorto, Portugal

2. NORMAL VERSION

A) B-LEARNING

  • Live streaming classes and E-learning contents
  • 1 in-person training week in OPorto, Portugal

DATES: January 27 – December 31, 2027

DURATION: 11 months online + 1 in-person week in June

SCHEDULE: 2 hours/session, 4 sessions/month from 8pm to 10pm (Lisbon time)*

*Schedule may change based on trainer availability and time zones.

LANGUAGE: English

VENUE: OPorto, Portugal

B) 100% ONLINE / E-LEARNING

  • Fully online: Live streaming + E-learning content

DATES: January 27 – December 31, 2027

DURATION: 11 months of 100% online classes

LANGUAGE: English

Throughout the course, you will experience clear and innovative teaching-learning methodologies, designed to challenge and involve you in a transformative journey.

Change your perspective on the game, master the art of training, and elevate your coaching career.

An Up-To-Date Curriculum

Our b-learning training activities held by the best trainers in the world will be composed of synchronous meetings and asynchronous online classes.
The individualized tutorials and the exclusive face-to-face week held in Porto (Portugal) will be vital to meet and to build a relationship with all arround the world coaches.
In the end, after a final project approval you will receive the Professional Certification in Tactical Periodisation® and to add your profile to the Periodização Táctica® World Network.

Contents

Topics covered:

What’s the understanding of Tactical Periodisation® in contrast with the rooted conventional;

Football, a “total anthroposocial phenomenon”;

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.

Topics covered:

The football team understood as a homeodynamic, adaptive and dynamic system and necessarily as an evolutive homeostasis;

The game of football built by “moments” or categorizing collective patterns?;

The understanding of the game dimensions (tactical, technical, physical, psychological, strategical) under the light of complexity;

The necessity of recognizing football as a game governed by (Super-dimension) Tactics, as an a priori aspirable and gradually modelable throughoutthe training process;

The super-dimension Tactics as an acculturation of game play.

Topics covered:

Training as an acquisition process, a systemic modeling;

Macro, meso e micro game principles. The interactive principles promoted by criterion;

Intentionality in modeling the process as praxiology.

Topics covered:

The game of football: metabolic implications. What is really relevant to promote during training?;

Parabiosis and exaltation of collective and individual performance;

Algorithmic pattern: specificities of “Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday”;

Adaptation / adaptability, structural-functional invariance with acculturating homeostasis, a consequence of the acquisitive process thatcodifies temporality;

The transcendental plane of Specificity – a conditional procedural condition (the context with ONE sense).

Topics covered:

«Study cases». The hierarchy for the process modeling, expressed in the systematic repetition of the Pattern Morphocycle;

Training unit = structural and functional hierarchy or fractal operationality of the process;

Morphocycle for matches separated by 6 days (sunday to saturday);

Morphocycle for a week with 3 matches;

Adaptation of Morphocycle days (2 or 3 practices a week);

Performance-recovery management of the non-used players.

Topics covered:

Methodological Principle of the Propensities;

Methodological Principle of Horizontal Alternation in (S) specificity;

Methodological Principle of Complex Progression;

The hierarchy for the process modeling, expressed in the systematic repetition of the Morfociclo Padrão (Pattern Morphocycle), the constructionalgorithm.

Topics covered:

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»;

The emerging of the Specificity in different contexts. Study cases and practical applications;

«Phenomenotechnics». The trainer as a ‘brain-mechanism’ that regulates the process or the opening of systems to ‘retro-feeding'(maybethe translation is feedback) or causal non-linearity

Topics covered:

Conscience, a Subjective and Plural concept, on a Plural Phenomenon, but objectionable;

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 creation of habits as presuppositions for a good game play, in anticipation of what happens;

Bodily (Inter)Action, Game Intelligence as a Bodily Knowledge (InCorporAção).

Topics covered:

Development of a Diary along the course including reflections of all the lectures, doubts, insights, readings and conclusions.

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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