Sport science
Eager to learn about the top trends and strategies in sports science, strength & conditioning, performance, and tactical analysis, talent identification, youth development or scouting?
Join our two-days live session and discover the latest trends and developments in Football Analytics & Talent Identification, focusing on the best practices in Performance analysis and Youth development tools & strategies.
Read moreOur speakers will cover many topics across our two-days program focused on sports science, strength & conditioning, performance and tactical analysis, as well as on the talent identification and scouting areas.
You will receive a digital Certificate of Attendance after the event!
Football, Soccer, Sport Science, Sport Academies, Universities, Sport Science Software and Hardware
The Early Bird Offer expires in 7 days!
To request an agenda for this Summit, please complete the details below. We will send you the agenda via email.
The Early Bird Offer expires in 7 days!
About Speaker
About Speaker
About Speaker
About Speaker
About Speaker
About Speaker
About Speaker
About Speaker
About Speaker
About Speaker
About Speaker
About Speaker
About Speaker
Dr. Paul Bradley is a world-leading authority on match analysis. He is the author of the unique book ‘Football Decoded’, which was released on Amazon in 2020 and recorded a three-tier educational course on www.FootballAnalyticsHQ.com in 2021. He is currently a football science consultant for elite teams, national governing bodies, and technology companies. He typically conducts translational work within an elite football setting that bridges the gap between cutting-edge research and professional practice (e.g., not just research for research sake but work that adds value to the applied setting). One area he pioneered is the contextualisation of match and training data, and he is currently working with many elite organisations in this regard. He has more than 15 years of experience in the football science area and has published more than 80 papers and has over 5,500 citations in the science and football area.
Werner Helsen is a professor in the department of movement sciences at KU Leuven. His research interests include expert perception and performance, talent detection and selection (including relative age and late maturity effects), and load monitoring in team sports and association football particularly. As of June 2021, Google Scholar showed 10,571 citations, H-index=51, i10-index=114. His teaching involvements are in the motor control and learning field as well as in the area of performance training in team sports and football in particular. Since 1999, he has played a prominent role in UEFA as a sports scientist and training expert. Since 2015, UEFA has also engaged him in ‘Fitness4Football’ workshops to teach national team coaches how to use GPS-based technology to make players and the game better. He was involved in six UEFA European Championships and three FIFA World Cups. He also has extensive experience in the sport science support of youth academies, professional clubs, and national teams.
Jurrit Sanders currently works as Lead Academy Sport Scientist at PSV Eindhoven, where he started his career in 2015 after several internships in elite sports and gaining his master's degree in Human Movement Sciences at the VU University in Amsterdam. His main aim is to support the technical, medical, performance, and scouting staff in making (better) decisions with the help of data, research, and scientific knowledge.
Jurrit has obtained a special interest in growth and maturation and developed PSV's own growth model. In addition, he has worked as a researcher on cognitive skills in football and has developed PSV's own vision and training methods with regard to this topic.
Andrea Riboli is a physical performance coach, applied sport scientist, and consultant experienced with both youth and adult elite football players. He holds a PhD in sport sciences and he is an adjunct professor in performance analysis at the University of Milan. After gaining experience as an exercise physiologist at different levels of competition and the position of head of performance in professional women’ basketball, he got experience as a physical performance coach in Como FC, AC Milan, and Atalanta BC academies. From 2014-20, he held the position of first team physical performance coach at Atalanta BC, where he was in charge of the sport science department of the club. He published papers in sport science and medicine peer-review international journals and he is currently leading research and consulting projects about high-performance development in elite football players.
Adam is in charge of developing a learning culture by combining video, event, and physiological data with tactical individual goal-setting objectives to help each player contribute best for the team. He was performing performance analysis and scouting roles with Hapoel Tel-Aviv and Chelsea FC Academy. He has a huge passion for the game and is a lecturer for football development with a player-centred approach. Growing up as a basketball point guard and captain alongside serving three years as an IDF Special Forces Commander has highly influenced his career.
Lukasz Pachelski is a coordinator of the analysis department at Legia Warszawa and analyst coach for the Polish U-20 National Team. He has a UEFA A license with many years of experience working at the youth and senior levels, he's a lecturer at trainings and conferences, and has written many articles.
Lukasz is passionate about the subject of leadership and football tactics. He's also a husband and dad of three children.
Currently Ian is Head of Fitness at Hajduk Split in the Croatian Priva Liga, this is his 16th season in professional football. Working for Celtic Football Club, UAE Football Federation, Ludogorets Razgrad and Universitatea Criaova in previous years.
Ian has recently completed his UEFA B Licence, started is UEFA A Licence, and currently doing his Master Course in Tactical Periodisation with Victor Frade.
His passion is Football Methodology and the integration to the football team & players to enhance the current teams game model as well as the individual players ability.
Michael currently works as Head of Physical performance at Norwegian champions FK Bodø/Glimt. He has held this role since July 2019 and was previously employed as head of physiotherapy at the club.
He is a PhD student with master's degrees in injury advanced rehabilitation sciences and a further MSc in Physiotherapy. His research interests include training load with focus on the importance of high intensity actions in soccer.
Request the 6th Annual Football Analytics & Talent Identification Summit brochure and find out the latest topics and ideas that will be shared.
Please fill in your e-mail address below and we will process your request in a moment.
Thank you for your interest!
Sep 12, 2018
4th Annual Football Analytics and Performance Summit
Sport science
Sport science
Sport science
Sport science