Mid-Season - Winter break by João Carvalho (Boavista FC Assistant Coach)

During an extended period of competition, top flight players can be prone to suffer from fatigue - the number of games that are played at top level is between 50 and 60 per season.  On top of exhaustion from the physical pressure of the game and the length of the season, these players are subject to emotional pressure due to the huge media attention the sport receives. 

Finding the balance: adaptation and revolution by Gerard Nus

When a coach arrives at a club, it is usually, in the vast majority of cases, to make changes and bring new ideas to a project that isn’t living up to its full potential.

One sport, different points of view by Juan Ferrando (Youth team coach at Malaga FC)

After having the experience of working in football in different countries, I would define the sport as an art. An abstract art in which everyone involved, every spectator sees a canvas; upon which they see a different painting.

Intelligent footballers & Training activities by Gerard Nus

What are intelligent footballers?

Intelligent footballers are those who are capable of making the best decision in any given situation: a player that plays short balls when necessary, one who controls the ball before playing it instead of heading it aimlessly; definitively, the player who is aware of his strengths and weaknesses and whose play is dictated by different factors in the game (his team mates, opponents, the score line, minutes remaining, if players have been sent off or sanctioned, pressure from the supporters...)

My opinion on Korean Football by Gerard Nus

The first thing I must say is that in order to understand the basis of Korean football you have to know something of the social and historical context of the country, the history of football there and the area around it. South Korea, where I am working, has over the last few decades has improved its standard of living. Its economic prosperity has moved the country to 13th in world rankings according to figurespresented in the World Bank list of 2007. After it split from its' sister' North Korea in 1945, without a peace treaty being signed and in view of the radical change of government there, it became a democratic country (1987) and is today one of the most politically free and socially aware Asian countries. And to say this about a country in this part of the world is not to be taken lightly.