DrillBoard™ has been invited, as an example of Best Practise in Football, to the inaugural World Football Academy UK National Symposium at The Emirates Stadium on 19th December 2012.
If you're thinking of coming along to the event it would be great to see you there.
The theme for the day is "UK Football...Back to the Future" and will take a look at changing coaching culture. Speakers include:
The good folks at Soccer Without Limits (SWOL) reported their most viewed article ever using DrillBoard™ to help illustrate their thoughts on the potential Arsenal line up ahead of the Premier League clash with Manchester United at Old Trafford.
Arsenal Lineup Possibility for their trip to Old Trafford to face Manchester United: Walcott to Start?
This drill/ progression will help condition your players while working on dribbling/footwork skills. By adding a defender at various stages will help simulate game situations.
DrillBoard™ wins Best Enterprise Case Study award at Cloud Computing World Series Awards, recognition for its internationally acclaimed cutting-edge soccer coaching software.
DrillBoard™ Worldwide, a leader in sports coaching technology, has today announced that it has won the Best Enterprise Case Study Award at the 2012 Cloud Computing World Series Awards.
Having been judged by an independent panel of industry experts, the award was presented to DrillBoard™ at the Annual Cloud Computing World Forum held at Earls Court, London.
Now in it's 4th year, the World Series Awards are widely regarded as a benchmark for the best of the best in the cloud computing industry.
“We are delighted that the judging panel of industry experts chose DrillBoard™ to receive this Award” said Tim Gentles, CEO of DrillBoard™ football coaching software “DrillBoard is helping coaches, players and parents raise their game at all levels of football from internationals to grass roots and it is a real honour to see this being recognized at the Cloud Computing World Series Awards.
I’d like to thank Osian Roberts and the team at FA Wales for their tremendous support over the last year. The Cloud is really helping DrillBoard™, and our development cycle has been transformed since moving onto the Windows Azure platform. We have some very exciting developments in the pipeline and are really looking forward to the future. ”
Dr Michael Newberry, Windows Azure Lead, Microsoft UK said
"It is so exciting to see DrillBoard™ receiving recognition at Cloud World Forum. It is a first class example of what can be achieved with Windows Azure, as well as a tremendous example of innovation, using Cloud technology in such a novel manner. My congratulations to Tim and the team."
Tim Gentles, DrillBoard™ CEO, collects the Award with Bill Hilf, General Manager Windows Azure Product Management and Matt Quinn from IQ Cloud.
The Story of DrillBoard™, FA Wales and Windows Azure
DrillBoard™ achieved this award in good company. Additional winners recognized for their achievements include Microsoft, Metamarkets, SnapLogic, Symform, Ping Identity, VMWare, Really Simple Systems, and YHMAN Ltd. According to Award organizers, a record number of companies and organizations participated this year, with more than 250 entry forms submitted.
For further information on the Awards or about the Cloud Computing World Forum please contact Charlie Bestall on +44 (0) 845 519 1230 or charlie@keynoteworld.com
About DrillBoard
DrillBoard™ is a powerful soccer education tool that allows coaches, players and parents to create, save and share - drills, tactics and match analysis.
DrillBoard™ is tried and tested at all levels of the game, from the international arena to grass roots. It brings the coaches' chalkboard, a technology that’s been used very successfully by coaches for many years, into the modern world with an easy to use app.
The DrillBoard™ team are delighted to accept an invitation to take part at the founding event of the World Football Academy (WFA) in Amsterdam this week.
The World Football Academy (WFA) is an initiative developed by Raymond Verheijen in collaboration with a number of leading figures in world football including WFA Ambassador Guus Hiddink - one of the world’s most highly respected and successful coaches of his era.
To celebrate this milestone the WFA are hosting a 5-day "Periodisation Expert Meeting" in Amsterdam between Wed 27th June - Sun 1st Jul 2012.
We are very excited that DrillBoard™ will feature as a key part of the event, which will be attended by some of the best Football Conditioning Coaches from 50 different countries on all the continents.
The World Football Academy team of instructors include some of the leading names in world football coaching including;
Marcel Lucassen (Football Technique Training)
Technical Expert with the German Football Association (DFB) Marcel has successfully implemented an effective structure with all National Youth Teams.
Damian Roden (Monitoring Football)
One of the best injury prevention fitness specialists in the Premier League and beyond. Former Head of Sports Science at Bolton Wanderers, Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Australia & Wales.
Raymond Verheijen (Football Periodisation & Conditioning)
Football Coach and Football Conditioning Expert. Worked for Feyenoord, Glasgow Rangers, Barcelona, Zenit St. Petersburg, Chelsea and Manchester City. Assistant Coach in last 3 World Cups (2002, 2006 and 2010) and last 4 Euro’s (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012).
Simon Bitcon (Football Strength & Core)
Arguably the best Strength and Conditioning Coach in football. Renowned for his effective Football Specific approach to Strength, Simon is currently Head of Strength and Conditioning at Manchester City FC.
Ton van Rhoon (Management)
Pro-Licence Instructor on Football Management for over 2 decades for the Dutch Football Association (KNVB) Ton has advised each and every successful Dutch Manager.
Frans Hoek (Goalkeeper Coaching)
Dutch Goalkeeper Expert of impeccable pedigree and former Goalkeeper Coach of Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Holland.
Mikael Kuijpers (Rehabilitation)
Dutch Physiotherapist with vast experience in both domestic and international football. Personal Physiotherapist to many current Dutch international players.
Andy Barr (Screening & Testing Football Players)
Leader in the implementation of functional movement screening and development of injury prevention programmes in the Premier League. Successfully made the transition across sports and is currently the Injury Prevention Specialist at the New York Knicks.
Kerry Kayes (Nutrition for Football)
Founder of the leading sports nutrition brand CNP and renowned for his training methods and nutritional advice in boxing. Advisor to several Premier League and International Team Medical Departments.
Story about the Award Winning DrillBoard™ Coaching Software and how the DrillBoard™ team has been working with FA Wales and Windows Azure to help coach and player development at all levels of the game from International Level to Grass Roots.
DrillBoard™ joined forces with Football-Jobs.com at this year's Grass Roots Football show at The NEC, Birmingham where we pre-launched DrillBoard™ World the latest version of our DrillBoard tactics and drills software used by coaches from International Level to Grass Roots.
We had a phenomenal response and there was a great buzz around the stand which is really exciting.
Thanks to everyone who popped by and an extra big thanks to Efrem Leigh, owner of Football-Jobs.com who was at the show for the 3 days, welcoming many candidates who use the site and letting them know that the brand new website is on its way soon.
If you’d like to join DrillBoard™ World, please click here. We’ll be sending out invites in waves.
It's been a great start to the Grass Roots Football Show at the NEC Birmingham.
This annual event is the UK's equivalent if the NSCAA Convention.
We're here promoting DrillBoard™ World the latest development for DrillBoard™ which goes live next week.
You can sign up for free here:
http://www.DrillBoard.com
Friday is trade day and it was great that we were able to meet so many representatives from clubs and organisations who came to our Stand A30.
A big thank you to our strategic partners @FootballJobs for their help with the event.
For Saturday and Sunday the doors open to the general public and we're looking forward to meeting many more coaches and players over the course of the weekend.
If you're at the show do pop by Stand A30, it would be great to say hello.
Things are all starting to fall into place here at DrillBoard™ HQ for our stand at this year's Grass Roots Football Live at the NEC, Birmingham, UK.
We're at the show to launch DrillBoard™ World our new free to access service, which comes right off the back of a very successful year working
with FA Wales (the most improved team in the FIFA rankings in 2011) and marks another milestone in our ambition to Coach the World.
If you're reading this blog we'd love you to join DrillBoard™ World, to request an invitation simply click this link and enter your email address, we're sending out invites in waves and you're name will be on the list!
Meanwhile, best of luck to the Welsh team who square up to Mexico in New York this weekend and, it might not make the same kind of news but...
We've just taken delivery of some great materials worked up by the good folks at SoloPress - great job designer Lee Whittaker - & hot off the press here's one of the roller banners that will be adorning Stand A30 at the NEC for the weekend starting this Friday Morning.
ExactTarget have put together this infographic for the 2012 Champions League final, which saw more than a million tweets sent as Chelsea went on to beat Bayern Munich on penalties.
Drogba was mentioned in 25% of all tweets.
John Terry despite having not kicked a ball was fractionally behind him.
It's the morning of the Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Chelsea and the players will be preparing themselves for what is the biggest club game in world football and possibly be the biggest club game in world sport.
In May 2009 the Champions League final between Barcelona and Manchester United replaced the Super Bowl for the first time ever as the most-watched annual sports event, according to a survey by Interpublic's Initiative Futures Sports and Entertainment.
While the TV audiences for both events continued to grow, the Barcelona v Manchester United game drew an audience of 109 million while the Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals drew 106 million in February that year.
The Super Bowl's audience was primarily domestic, the Champions League final faired better in the battle for viewers globally especially in the Asia-Pacific region.
3 years on and the Bayern v Chelsea final will be televised live on the free-to-air Fox network in the U.S. where, although still modest in comparison to Gridiron, viewership of the UEFA Champions League Final has exploded.
The 2011 final was the seventh straight year that English-language viewing increased in the U.S. Over the last 10 years, the audience has increased almost 10-fold, from 264,000 viewers on ESPN in 2002 to 2.6 million on FOX in 2011.
The 2011 Champions League Final is the highest-rated and most watched in U.S. history, drawing an audience of 4.2 million viewers nationally. Significantly, the 2011 match on FOX and FOX Deportes also bettered the 2009 match, which featured the same Barcelona and Manchester United clubs, by +24% on viewership (4.2 million vs. 2.1 million).
The stage is set for a night of drama in front of a huge global audience - this could be one of the last stands for Chelsea's old guard (Drogba, Lampard and Terry have a combined age of 98) while Bayern are on home ground seeking a 5th European title and to join Real Madrid and Inter Milan in becoming only the 3rd side in history to do that on their own manor.
Let battle commence, may the best team win and the game itself live up to expectation.
World Football Academy presents ground-breaking study demonstrating player fatigue is distorting European Football
Clear performance deficit suffered by teams playing after only two days’ recovery
Domestic title and European qualification outcomes affected
Study author, Raymond Verheijen, calls for mandatory three-day gap between matches
After studying the results of 27,000 professional matches, Verheijen said he had concluded that rest period of three days proved sufficient and did not give rise to any noticeable change in the chances during the second match.
The world players’ union FIFPro back recommendation
BERNE (Reuters) – FIFPro fully backed a study conducted by Dutch coach Raymond Verheijen which said that two days were insufficient and significantly affected a team’s chances of winning.
FIFPro’s technical director Thys Tummers said the devaluation of the Europa League could be a direct consequence of the two-day rest periods
“Clubs in the Europa League that want to gain a place in the highly lucrative Champions League increasingly favour the (domestic) competition in which they can gain qualification for the Champions League and rest their best players for the Europa League fixtures,” he said.
“This has been the consistent policy of Tottenham Hotspur throughout this season. The team was eliminated in the group stage.
“Twente Enschede, even though they had a lead of 1-0, fielded a weakened team for their return match at Schalke 04 and were eliminated.
“This undesirable effect could be avoided in the future by giving players and teams three days’ rest between two matches.”
Tummers said there were other reasons for following the recommendations.
“First, there is the question of fair play. By allowing one club only two rest days, you give the teams an unequal chance of a good result.
“In addition, we must take care that our players are not overused. First, because of the health of the players, but second, because the public want to see the players perform at their best.
“That doesn’t happen after just two rest days. It is plausible that the number of injuries is higher after only two rest days; a follow-up study is currently being held into this.”
"I was very upset when he gave me the card and I blamed him. Then he asked me to show my number. I turned to him and did it. But I did not intend to imitate Michael Jackson" – Sport Recife defender Tobi responds after appearing to moonwalk in protest at being booked against Santa Cruz during a game in Brazil.
Manchester City: Manchester United:
De Gea, Jones, Smalling, Ferdinand, Evra, Park, Carrick, Scholes, Nani, Giggs, RooneyHart, Zabaleta, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Toure, Barry, Silva, Tevez, Nasri, AgueroEnglish Premier League Etihad Stadium, 30th April 2012
Some images from popping by the Football Trade Directory's Chelsea Open Day this afternoon.
The folks had to make a last minute venue switch from Stamford Bridge due to the timing of the Champions League semi with Barcelona.
Happy to report they pulled it out of the bag and it was great to chat to other attendees and hear about some of the interesting things folks are doing in footie.
Nkosi Burgess of Dix Hills "Heat" backheel flicks the ball to himself off the free kick and then backward overhead volleys to score against Hauppage "Brazil".
With the Grassroots Football Live Show at the NEC, Birmingham, UK only a few weeks away we thought we'd share an interview DrillBoard did with Nick Levett, then FA Skills Manager at a previous show. Some interesting thoughts...
Some behind the scenes photos from DrillBoard's film shot at the Welsh Boys Under 16's Squad camp as part of a showcase case study for the good folks at Windows Azure.
Many thanks to FA Wales (especially Esther!), Phil and Matt the film crew from Magic Bullet, Windows Azure and Matt from IQ Cloud for all their help and support in putting together what should be a great video on DrillBoard.
DrillBoard Soccer has joined forces with our partner organisation Football Fans Census to launch the DrillBoard Soccer Coach Census - a research platform dedicated to giving soccer coaches a global platform to feedback on the issues that are important to them.
Our first survey just takes a couple of minutes to complete and we’d really appreciated your input.
Very excited to welcome the 2000th member to DrillBoard's Soccer Coach Central Group on Linkedin.
Soccer Coach Central is a networking group for football (soccer) coaches, to share ideas, techniques and job opportunities - we'd like to thank all members of our community for making it such a successful group.
