Month: October 2024

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OCTOBER: A Key Month for Various Training Programs at the Sevilla FC Innovation Center

This October is a significant month in the training calendar of the Sevilla FC Innovation Center, with several of its key master’s programs beginning new editions. The VII edition of the Master in Big Data Applied to Scouting in Football, in collaboration with Sports Data Campus and UCAM, is one of the most prominent courses. It trains sports directors, analysts, scouts, coaches, and trainers to perform various roles within the football industry, particularly in the field of Advanced Analytics in Sports Management. The VII edition will begin on the 29th, and the last available enrollment spots can be accessed through this link.

The big news this year is the launch of the I edition of the Master in Innovation and Digital Transformation in Sports Organizations, also in collaboration with Sports Data Campus and UCAM. This course is aimed at professionals from both the sports and non-sports sectors who wish to lead the digital transformation of sports organizations through the application of new technologies. The master’s program will start this coming Tuesday, with enrollment open until then via this link.

Additionally, this season the Sevilla FC Innovation Center has introduced two major sports training programs. In coordination with CESUR, official Vocational Training studies at the Intermediate and Advanced levels are being offered, leading to the qualification of football coach, enabling graduates to coach in Spain. Moreover, the Sevilla FC Goalkeeping Academy has also just started. This project provides technical, tactical, physical, and psychological training for football goalkeepers, delivered by club coaches at the Ciudad Deportiva, in collaboration with the R&D Department. For more information, you can check this link.

Lastly, the Antonio Puerta Football School has also started its activities this month at the Ciudad Deportiva. This well-established project, now in its XVI edition, trains children in Sevilla FC values through football practice on the club’s training fields, with the guidance of Sevilla FC professionals. The last available spots can be secured through this link.

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Present at the Disruptores Innovation Awards 2024 Gala

Sevilla FC was one of the highlights this Thursday at the ‘Disruptores Innovation Awards 2024’ gala, which took place at the Palacio Neptuno in Madrid. The club was nominated for one of the most prestigious awards, Best Digitalization Project in a Medium-Sized Business, thanks to the launch of the ‘Scout Advisor’ tool, which the club developed in collaboration with IBM. At the gala, organized by the media outlet El Español and its technology portal Disruptores e Innovadores, it was highlighted that this innovative tool uses generative artificial intelligence to assist in the management and extraction of information from scouts’ reports. ‘Scout Advisor’ simplifies the search and analysis of players by processing both qualitative and quantitative data, reducing the time needed to find suitable talent from hours to minutes.

Sevilla FC was nominated by the Disruptores editorial team alongside 50 other companies that have been featured in notable stories about technological innovation over the past 12 months. The article about ‘Scout Advisor’ and Sevilla FC’s commitment to technology was published on January 23rd and will now be included in print in the prestigious annual edition, The 50 Most Disruptive. This award marks another milestone and recognition of Sevilla FC’s commitment to developing its own technological tools to improve the club’s day-to-day operations across all areas, solidifying its position as an international technological leader in the football world.

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Presentes en la Gala `Disruptores Innovation Awards 2024´

El Sevilla FC fue uno de los protagonistas este jueves en la gala de los ‘Disruptores Innovation Awards 2024’ que tuvo lugar en el Palacio Neptuno de Madrid. El club estaba nominado a uno de los premios más destacados, el de mejor proyecto de digitalización en una empresa mediana gracias al lanzamiento de la herramienta ‘Scout Advisor’, que la entidad ha desarrollado junto a IBM. En la gala, organizada por el medio de comunicación ‘El Español’ y su portal de tecnología ‘Disruptores e Innovadores’, se destacó que esta novedosa herramienta utiliza la inteligencia artificial generativa para ayudar en la labor de gestión y extracción de información de los informes de los ojeadores. ‘Scout Advisor’ simplifica la búsqueda y análisis de futbolistas mediante el procesamiento de datos cualitativos y cuantitativos, reduciendo de horas a minutos el tiempo necesario para encontrar talentos adecuados. 

El Sevilla FC estaba nominado por la redacción de ‘Disruptores’ junto a otras 50 empresas que han protagonizado historias destacadas sobre innovación tecnológica en los últimos 12 meses. El artículo sobre ‘Scout Advisor’ y la apuesta del Sevilla FC por la tecnología fue publicado el pasado 23 de enero y ahora será editado en versión impresa en el prestigioso anuario ‘Los 50 más disruptores’. Este premio supone un nuevo hito y reconocimiento a la apuesta del Sevilla FC por desarrollar sus propias herramientas tecnológicas que mejoren el día a día del club en todas sus áreas. Una estrategia que ha consolidado al club como referencia tecnológica internacional dentro del mundo del fútbol.

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Técnicos paraguayos visitaron la `Coaches Academy´ del Innovation Center Sevilla FC

Esta semana el Innovation Center Sevilla FC ha recibido una nueva visita de técnicos que acuden a la ‘Coaches Academy’ para aprender la metodología de entrenamiento que se sigue en la Ciudad Deportiva sevillista. En esta ocasión ha sido un grupo de entrenadores estadounidenses a través de la empresa Getathlos.

Los visitantes pudieron disfrutar de un tour por las instalaciones de la Ciudad Deportiva así como de varias charlas a cargo de responsables de diferentes departamentos de la parcela deportiva del Sevilla FC. Entre otras materias, recibieron orientación acerca del modelo de negocio de la entidad en el área deportiva, de sistemas de entrenamiento, de la planificación en el área de scouting y en el departamento de análisis y del desarrollo tecnológico que lleva años implementando el área de I+D+i fútbol.

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The first cohort of coaches from the Sevilla FC Innovation Center begins its journey at the club.

A total of 25 students make up this first cohort of a course supported by CESUR, a leading vocational training center in Spain, which will take place at Sevilla FC’s facilities on the Carretera de Utrera. In fact, following Tuesday’s event, the first class of the course was held at the Jesús Navas stadium. Sevilla FC and CESUR offer official vocational training programs at both Intermediate and Advanced levels, leading to a diploma as a Football Coach, qualifying individuals to work as football coaches in Spain and eventually to pursue certain university degrees.

This Tuesday, the inauguration of the first cohort of the Intermediate Level Diploma in Football Coaching took place at the José Ramón Cisneros Palacios Sports City, one of the main new additions to the Sevilla FC Innovation Center’s educational program for this season. The event was sponsored by three professional coaches: Xavier García Pimienta, current coach of Sevilla FC, Jesús Galván, his counterpart at Sevilla Atlético, and Joaquín Caparrós, a former Sevilla FC coach.

After a brief introduction by José María Cruz, Head of the R&D Department for Football at Sevilla FC, García Pimienta wished the students a successful course and luck in their professional development: “It is an honor to be asked to inaugurate this course. What I can tell you is that it’s a world that can be perhaps thankless but also exciting and passionate.” Meanwhile, Caparrós emphasized, “There couldn’t have been a better setting to start this coaching course.” Galván, like his fellow former professional player, offered clear advice: “Enjoy and make the most of this opportunity; it’s different from being a footballer but equally rewarding.”

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La I Promoción de Entrenadores del Sevilla FC Innovation Center inicia su andadura en el club

Un total de 25 alumnos completan esta primera promoción de un curso que cuenta con el apoyo de CESUR, centro de formación profesional referencia en España, y que se desarrollará en las instalaciones sevillistas de la Carretera de Utrera. De hecho, tras el acto de este martes, se llevó a cabo la primera asignatura del curso en las propias instalaciones del estadio Jesús Navas. El Sevilla FC y CESUR ofrecen estudios oficiales de Formación Profesional de Grado Medio y Superior conducentes a la obtención del título de técnico deportivo en Fútbol, habilitante para ejercer como entrenador de fútbol en España así como para, posteriormente, poder acceder a determinados estudios universitarios de grado.

Este martes ha tenido lugar en la Ciudad Deportiva José Ramón Cisneros Palacios la inauguración de la I promoción del Grado Medio de Técnico Deportivo en Fútbol, una de las principales novedades del programa formativo del Sevilla FC Innovation Center para esta campaña. El acto contó con el apadrinamiento de tres entrenadores profesionales, Xavier García Pimienta, actual técnico del Sevilla FC, Jesús Galván, su homólogo en el Sevilla Atlético, y Joaquín Caparrós, expreparador sevillista.

Tras una breve presentación a cargo de José María Cruz, Responsable del Departamento de I+D+i Fútbol del Sevilla FC, García Pimienta le deseó a los alumnos un buen curso y suerte en su desarrollo profesional: “Es un honor que cuenten conmigo para inaugurar este curso, lo que os puedo decir es que es un mundo quizás ingrato pero ilusionante y apasionante“. Por su parte, Caparrós destacó que “no se podía haber elegido un marco mejor para empezar este curso de entrenadores”. Galván, al igual que sus compañeros exjugador profesional, lanzó una recomendación clara: “Disfrutad y aprovechad esta oportunidad, es distinto a ser futbolista pero también muy gratificante”

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El Español and Disruptores e Innovadores have nominated Sevilla FC for the Best Digitization Project award

Sevilla Fútbol Club has been nominated for the Disruptores Innovation Awards 2024, presented on October 10 by El Español and its technology portal, Disruptores e Innovadores. The club is competing for the award in the category of Best Digitization Project in a Medium-Sized Company due to the launch of the Scout Advisor tool, which the club developed together with IBM.

In its nomination, El Español highlights that this tool uses “generative artificial intelligence with the goal of assisting scouts in their work” and notes that it automates “the process of extracting information from various reports” and “simplifies the search and analysis of players by processing qualitative and quantitative data, reducing the time needed to find suitable talents from hours to minutes.”

Sevilla FC has been nominated by the Disruptores editorial team at El Español, along with 50 other companies that have been featured in stories about technological innovation published over the last 12 months. The article about Scout Advisor and Sevilla FC’s commitment to technology was published on January 23 and will now be edited in print in the prestigious yearbook “The Top 50 Disruptors”.

This nomination marks a new milestone and recognition of Sevilla FC’s commitment to developing its own technological tools to improve the club’s daily operations. Notably, the launch of Scout Advisor had a huge media impact worldwide, leading to the club being invited as a success story at various forums.

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The Danish Olympic Committee participated in a working meeting on technology with Sevilla FC

Sevilla Football Club, through its Innovation Center, continues to promote the dissemination of its knowledge and its educational offerings on the use of technology applied to sports. In this regard, the club received a visit at the José Ramón Cisneros Palacios Sports City from various members of the Danish Olympic Committee for a training session on how the club applies its proprietary technological tools specifically in the sporting arena.

The Vice President of the Danish Olympic Committee, Frans Hammer, highly praised the experience and also highlighted the quality of the club’s facilities: “It has been an incredible experience to come here. First of all, the sports and training facilities, and of course, also all the effort they put into innovation and the way they work with an open-minded approach, inviting external people, not as a competitor in the football industry, but more like an Olympic Committee. It inspired us a lot to take some of the things they are working on to a different level in all sports, with the combination of using special data for performance and more.”

“We are quite impressed with what we’ve heard. Sevilla FC is ahead of many other clubs. And, it seems they are also approaching new technologies, developing their own tools, but even better, they are also collaborating with startups to grow. That’s why I think we could collaborate in the future, because, yes, Scandinavia has a lot of technological potential that could also be very beneficial,” added Niels Henrik, a member of the Danish Olympic Committee’s Innovation Lab.

The delegation was accompanied by the LALIGA delegate in Nordic countries, Juan Fuentes, who highlighted the prestige that Sevilla FC enjoys in this region: “There is a view that Sevilla FC is a great club. It’s a historic club. There is no other club that has won the Europa League seven times. So it is in the minds of all European football, not just in Scandinavia.”