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The Sports Data Forum returns to the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán

The Sports Data Forum returns once again. Sport Data Campus, the Catholic University of San Antonio in Murcia, and Sevilla FC, through its Innovation Center, have been working for months on the organization of this third edition, with the collaboration of Big Data International Campus, Football Data International Forum, and Eniit Innova IT Business School, and the main sponsorship of Hudl. As in previous years, the format will be hybrid, alternating between on-site and remote sessions, although the entire event will be fully streamed. The kickoff will take place at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán Stadium on March 24th with an on-site session featuring the welcome keynote by Víctor Orta, sporting director of Leeds United. Following this, various presentations and roundtable discussions will cover topics such as professional game analysis and the latest trends in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence applied to football. The day will conclude with a closing keynote session by Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo, sporting director of Sevilla FC.

The event will continue over different days and weeks until its definitive conclusion on June 19th. During this time, various themes will be explored, including Big Data and Sports Management, AI applied to Sports, Digital Transformation and Innovation in Football Clubs, Data Ecosystem in Women’s Football, Big Data and Basketball, Big Data and Handball, Technological Entrepreneurship in the Sports Industry, and Professional Elite Analysts. Sessions in English and Portuguese are included, as well as a day dedicated to students. In all these sessions, club professionals will take the lead and share their experiences and knowledge with the students. For more information and registrations, you can visit this link. The club will soon provide information on accessing invitations through its Innovation Center LinkedIn page.

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Club professionals publish study on the effects of strength training

Researchers Juan José González Badillo, Juan Ribas Serna and David Rodríguez Rosell, members of Sevilla FC’s R+D+i Department together with Luis Sánchez Medina, have published a study which clarifies various concepts, theories and principles relating to the objectives, organisation, methodology and evaluation of the effects of strength training, following a detailed and rigorous examination of the existing literature and the results of research carried out by the authors themselves.

The general purpose of this work is to expose, analyse and constructively debate the anomalies present in the current methodology of strength training. Specifically, it deals with the inappropriate and confusing use of terminology, the need to clarify the objectives of strength training, the concept of maximal strength itself, the control and monitoring of the dosage of strength exercises, the existing programming models and the evaluation of the effects of training. The new paradigm involves precise control of the training load, the effort involved for the athlete and the effect of the training. All of this is based on the control of the speed of repetitions during training, which provides the necessary information to know the real loads that induce specific effects in each athlete.

González Badillo, Ribas Serna and Rodríguez Rosell are researchers of recognised prestige and trajectory who are currently integrated in the Department of Research, Development and Innovation of Sevilla FC developing their work in the specialities of Medicine and Sports Sciences.