Aspire in the World Fellows Book - 2025

36 37 11TH ASPIRE ACADEMY GLOBAL SUMMIT ASPIRE IN THE WORLD FELLOWS So you are looking for a winger? Oh, I want to see the data. Yeah, the data is just to filter a number of wingers. What we want is to see is what we are looking for in the player. And after seeing if the data matches. So that is the way, and that means experience. That means you have to be there watching, analyzing, have a clear idea, and then good people around you that can give you a lot of information. So Paco was talking about the GPS, the analyst, the stats. You need that because it’s part of the game. You cannot avoid that now, but has to be part of the game with the experience, with the knowledge of the coach and how to improve young players. That is what we were trying to do here, you have to see the characteristic of the players. You have to see the potential of the player and then try to analyze the data and improve things. Another thing that we talk about so many times, you want to improve the things that he’s not doing well. We want to improve these things that he’s not doing well, but especially the thing that he’s already doing well, he has space and ability and his 1v1 dribbling, make him to do that all the time. Then after we can improve the other things, but sometimes we can do both things together. Balance for everything. Understanding of the games, data balance, improving players, balance good things and the things that he needs to improve. Then go to the final third creation and how they will defend, how they will run in behind. Wide combination because you have more people in the middle, and now because you are on top of the other team, you have to be aware that they will play counter attack. So you have to be sure that because a lot of goals are scored with quick transitions, you have to be sure that you are defending well. When you are attacking, go to run in behind when you are against a middle block or a low block is exactly the same with less space, and then you have to be more precise. Numbers of runs in behind per game, and then number of goals per game. Germany more goals, more runs in behind is obvious. Before you run behind the defender, you make good crosses and you have more chances depending on the other team but you need runners. That is the analyst that is enjoying himself with the numbers. And that’s it. Just with a pass, you create that chance. So you need to have this balance between short passes, long passes you need people in movement. You go more or less to the shape, with the wing backs high, runs in behind, create the space, and using their technical ability, first touch away from the defender. (Speaking) Rafa Benitez: MASTERCLASS Talking with Luis de la Fuente in the Euros, we have pace in the wide areas, use the pace, and in this case you have Williams with Pace and also with energy. So linking with the youth, playing with freedom to express themselves one by one, but in a structure. It’s not just, each one will play his own game. We have seen PSG and some of the other teams that they changed position a lot of midfielders. They used to play on the right, on the left, they swap. So these players, Paco has the data we couldn’t show because it was not too much time. But these players, they run a lot. They have mobility and also high intensity. So when we analyze these teams, we can see this pattern all the time. They run a lot. In terms of kilometers, but also high intensity and the sprints. And these are the things that they are winning now. They will say the money to buy the best players and to buy the best player means talent, game intelligence. Also the same time they have the physicality, they have the pace or the strength to continue doing this. But just in case, don’t forget that the rule changed in 2019. That means that the teams that start playing from the back more than in the past, go more man to man that we have seen that go counter pressing. So the teams regain and it’s more fragmented because they are there and they are pressing higher. Now the teams are adapting to avoid the pressing. They realize that they will give the ball away and they will try to play over the press and have more mobility and switch positions like what I was saying before. So a lot of teams, they change positions. They need better players, more intelligent players, and they can play in different positions and they can performwell. Morefocusonperformancestrategies and stats is what Paco was saying. So now the players, they have an app, they have the data of their GPS. He has a personal trainer and they give you all the information and the players they want to improve physically, the nutrition, everything is much better. So the players, they know that they have to perform because if not, they cannot play at the level that they want to play.