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AREAS OF WORK

Professional Football Coach

Highly qualified coach with extensive experience in developing young talent, managing academies, and leading high-performance teams at elite levels — with specialized expertise in professional women’s football.

Integrated Methodology based on the following Key Pillars:

– Importance of Understanding the Game – Develop Smart Players

– Recognizing yourself in the game – Identity

– Playing to make things happen

– Decision Making-Creativity

– Emotional Intelligence

– Human Approach – People as Main Value, Player as principal role

– Sessions Organized-Structured

– Multidisciplinary Coaching Philosophy

– An adaptable, flexible, and dynamic playing philosophy rooted in positional and associative principles. It emphasizes optimal space creation and occupation, alongside the recognition and interpretation of diverse game situations to enhance collective structure and individual decision-making.

– Focused on the continuous development of both individual players and the collective to achieve optimal performance.

– Plays a key role in facilitating the transition of young talent — particularly homegrown players — to the First Team, ensuring alignment with the club’s playing philosophy and emphasizing the importance of transmitting and promoting core values both on and off the pitch.

– Team leadership and management across diverse contexts and environments throughout the season.

Individual Development Plan Coach

A passionate coach deeply committed to the holistic development of every individual within the squad. I design and implement impactful Individual Development Plans (IDP) that go beyond technical and tactical growth, integrating physical conditioning, mental resilience, and emotional well-being to help each player reach — and exceed — her full potential.

I produce detailed development reports for coaching staff and management, offering clear insights into player progression and readiness. I also act as a mentor and trusted confidant, providing consistent guidance and support to accompany each player’s personal growth, strengthen mental resilience, and nurture emotional well-being — both on and off the pitch.

My Essential Components for Individual Development:

Design, implement, and continuously refine personalized IDPs for each player, focusing on their  strengths and areas for improvement, directly aligned with the club’s game model and player positional profiles.

Ensure each IDP integrates a balanced approach across measurable technical, tactical, physical, psychological, and emotional dimensions.

Leverage video analysis and data-driven insights to enhance player understanding of game situations, decision-making, and role execution.

Utilize advanced performance analysis tools and software to monitor, track, and evaluate player development over time.

Apply data-informed decision-making processes to refine interventions and ensure that developmental strategies are both targeted and effective.

 

Conduct regular assessments and feedback meetings to monitor progress against IDP objectives and adjust plans accordingly.

 

Foster multidisciplinary collaboration across specialized departments  to ensure holistic tracking and review of each player’s development targets.

 

Design and deliver one-on-one and small-group sessions that replicate real match scenarios, focusing on key strengths, development priorities, and areas for improvement to enhance tactical understanding.

TACTICAL ANALYST

A master specialist who studies and interprets the game from a strategic perspective to provide insights that optimize both team and individual performance. My work bridges tactical analysis, data interpretation, individual feedback, and communication with the coaching staff in different contexts.

– In-depth analysis of our Own Team to support the continuous development of our game model and style of play.

Pre-match analysis of the upcoming Opponent to identify context, key patterns and players, tendencies across different phases of the game, potential weaknesses to exploit, and main threats to neutralize.

–  Development of tailored reports for the coaching staff and video analysis presentations for the players.

–  Individual Opponent Profiling through Video Analysis and Structured Reporting.

– Internal Training Session Analysis

– Operational Strategy Implementation

– Match Plan Preparation

Multidisciplinary Collaboration between the Analysis Department and Coaching Staff.

–  Knowledge and Application of Cutting-Edge Technologies in Football Analysis and Scouting: Once Sport Analyser, MediaCoach (Sportian Performance), Kognia Sports, Nacsport, Wyscout, Tactical Boards, and equivalent.

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