Month: August 2024

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Sevilla FC Coaches Academy hosts Ahod Alamari, coach of the Saudi National Team

The Coaches Academy managed by the Sevilla FC Innovation Center welcomed Ahod Alamari, assistant coach of the Saudi Arabian national team, on Tuesday. The visit was in response to the collaboration agreement that the club has with the Saudi Arabian Football Federation, which will see the coach work alongside the Sevilla FC Femenino coaching staff for the next six weeks.

At the academy, Alamari will be able to soak up the training methodology applied by Sevilla FC at all levels, as she will also work with the reserve team and the U-19, U-17 and U-15 teams. Sevilla FC has implemented a work formula in all its teams based on technological innovation and a work methodology that many clubs and federations are trying to apply, as in this case the Saudi Arabian federation.

In addition, Alamari will be one more member of the coaching staff of the women’s first team in the first official matches that David Losada’s charges will play in September. On Tuesday, the entire coaching staff and the squad received the Saudi Arabian at the Ciudad Deportiva, just before the start of the training session in which Alamari was able to participate as one of the players.

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VII edition of the Master in Big Data applied to Scouting of Sevilla FC Innovation Center

The Sevilla FC Innovation Center, together with the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) and the Sports Data Campus, co-organizes one of the most renowned courses in the field of data analysis in soccer: the Master in Big Data applied to Scouting in soccer. A course in Spanish and online format that allows students to improve their professional training in this field and that celebrates its VII edition. For this edition, which will begin in October, the registration period is now open and can be formalized through this link.

So far more than 450 students have passed through this master, which trains the scouts of the future in the use of digital tools to optimize their work process. It is, therefore, a development of the scout’s professional profile that enables him to remain relevant in the market. The master’s degree has been designed to provide students with the necessary knowledge to play a leading role in ‘Data Driven’ sports management. The training seeks to update and improve the professional profile of the scout, sports directors, coaches and analysts, ensuring that they are prepared to face the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities presented by the digital era in the field of sports.

During the six previous editions, students have had the opportunity to carry out internships in the Data and Analysis departments of Sevilla FC, access internships and job opportunities in other clubs and develop extremely interesting final projects. Teachers such as the current sporting director of Sevilla FC, Víctor Orta, or the sporting director of Aston Villa FC and ex-Sevillista, Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo ‘Monchi’, among others, participated in the course.

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Sevilla FC becomes a reference in Technological Innovation in Footbal

Sevilla FC has been making a firm commitment to using technology to optimize all its areas and obtain the best results both on and off the field. The Innovation Center Sevilla FC brings together all the R&D&I variants carried out by the entity. The 2023-24 season has been that of the club’s consecration as an international reference in the sports industry in terms of technology developed and applied in all areas of the club.

Undoubtedly, one of the major milestones of the 2023-24 season was the launch of the Scout Advisor tool, developed by the Data Department. This solution, built in conjunction with IBM’s WatsonX, its generative artificial intelligence system, has made it possible to optimize the availability of information from more than 200,000 scouting reports from the sports management’s own database. This qualitative leap is achieved through natural language searches, significantly reducing the time technicians used to extract all the value from the database.

The appearance of Scout Advisor has had a worldwide repercussion, which has made Sevilla FC and its commitment to technological development receive the attention of general and technological media all over the planet. This tool has accumulated prominence in more than 1200 media worldwide, with a potential audience of more than 2 billion readers. It has also been presented at conventions around the world, attending summits in the United States, India, Brazil and Saudi Arabia, among others.

Scout Advisor is just a sample of the tools that Sevilla FC has been developing over the last three years to facilitate the management of the club in all areas and is a continuation of the success achieved last season with the launch of Transfer Tracker, the first technological solution marketed by a Spanish club together with LALIGA.

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The “Sevilla FC Goalkeeping Academy” is born, a new project under the auspices of the Innovation Center

The Sevilla FC Innovation Center continues to expand its training offer and has created a new project called ‘Sevilla FC Goalkeeping Academy’, an activity that will meet the need to provide technical, tactical, physical and psychological training to soccer goalkeepers. The training will be given by club technicians at the Ciudad Deportiva with the collaboration of the R+D+i Department, as well as other specific activities for coaches, players, business managers, medical staff and other soccer professionals.

This project was created as a technical-actification school for goalkeepers that will be based on the methodology that Sevilla FC uses in all its lower levels. It will be focused on categories from pre-benjamin to senior and will be open to individuals as well as clubs, schools and semi-professionals.

Through the ‘Sevilla FC Goalkeeping Academy’ the goalkeeper will be developed in all facets, both sporting (improving his performance and quality) and personal (improving his ability to concentrate and commitment to the club). In addition, the technical-tactical aspects of the goalkeeper will be worked on both individually and as part of a team, so that he can also develop in his collective facet, which is necessary to carry out his work within the group itself.