Professional Diploma in Football Tactical Analyst
The huge growth in the economic resources of professional football clubs has given analysts the opportunity to work in a more thorough, organized way and to contribute to improving team performance. This in turn has firmly placed this professional job profile within a growing labor market. At the same time, the continuous progress in the development and evolution of tactical analysis in football makes study and training in this field of work permanent. The work proposals are increasingly broad for analysts, which allows them to take work roles in specific topics of analysis. For this reason, in this programme we will delve into four specific topics in which an analyst can specialise and thus perform a professional job in a specific scope, considering the impact of technology within this field, and therefore the acquisition of basic knowledge regarding the foundations that make up its use, understanding, and application
- Category: Football Coaching
- Level: beginner
- Duration: 10 months
- Price: 1150 EUR
Official courses from Barça Innovation Hub, FC Barcelona's educational arm, with experts who have worked inside the club. Earn an accredited certificate issued by the hub, available across the Middle East and North Africa through Champions Hub, its official partner for the fifth year.
What you will learn
- Implement tools, methods, and strategies for tactical analysis in football, equipping you with specific skills to meet professional clubs' role demands.
- Identify parameters and tactical elements of the game's starting phase to effectively select, organize, and communicate crucial information using technological tools.
- Understand the significance of ABP (Actions by Players) in contemporary football and acquire resources and criteria to develop analysis in this area.
- Apply the most relevant theoretical and practical content for analyzing the high-pressure phase in football, enabling identification and recognition of various high-pressure situations, and proposing training tasks accordingly.
- Learn a new observation methodology focused on Formative Football tailored to your team, covering everything from training sessions to matches.
Course content
- Module 1: Analysis of the Start Phase of the Game
- Definition and evolution of the start phase and understanding of the general analysis criteria
- Study of the structural elements of the start phase
- Study of the dynamic elements of the start phase
- Statistical analysis, selection, and presentation of information
- Module 2: Set Piece Analysis
- The importance of set pieces (SPs) and introduction to their analysis
- Defensive set pieces analysis
- Offensive set pieces analysis
- Methodological trends in set piece training
- Module 3: High-Press in Football
- High-press in the defensive phase - theoretical framework
- Most common defensive structures in high-press in football
- High-press training methodology in football
- MODULE 4: Data interpretation for effective high-press analysis
- Module 4: Observation Methodology in Formative Football
- Introduction to video observation
- Observation during training sessions
- Observation during competitive games
- Individual player observation
- Module 5: Match Analysis
- Pre-match analysis
- In-match analysis
- Post-match analysis
- Final evaluation and reporting
- Module 6: Analytical Implementation and Technological Processes
- Role of analytics department in sports
- Analysis of metric data
- Audiovisual processes in analysis
- Tagging and its application in match analysis
- Module 7: Team Analysis (Self-Analysis)
- Micro-level team analysis
- Meso-level team analysis
- Macro-level team analysis
- Analysis techniques for training improvement
- Module 8: Rival Team Analysis
- Individual player analysis of opponents
- Collective analysis of rival teams
- Integrating rival analysis into training sessions
- Communicating strategic insights to players
- Module 9: Sports Analytics - Essential Concepts
- History and evolution of sports analytics
- Application of analytics in sports problem-solving (Part I)
- Application of analytics in sports problem-solving (Part II)
- Application of analytics in sports problem-solving (Part III)
- Module 10: Video Analysis
- Characteristics and benefits of video analysis
- Variables controlled in video analysis
- Use of video analysis in training program development
- Integration of video analysis findings