The Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, a luxury venue for both in-house and LaLiga’s training courses.

The Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán has become a luxurious venue for hosting events of all kinds. An ideal setting that provides opportunities for hosting training sessions for various courses offered by Sevilla FC through its Innovation Center every year. Just this week, the Sevilla FC stadium hosted the final day of the Master’s in Sports Journalism organized in collaboration with the University of Seville and another in-person session for the Master’s in Big Data applied to Football Scouting, sponsored in conjunction with the University of Murcia and the Sports Data Campus. The latter is one of the flagship programs offered by the club in its continuous collaboration with universities, adding significant value to the Sevilla FC brand. The Master’s in Big Data applied to Football Scouting has already completed four editions with over 200 students who have honed their skills and been able to grow professionally in a sector that includes sports directors, analysts, and scouts. During this visit to the Sánchez-Pizjuán, held on Thursday, students from both the third edition, who received their respective diplomas, and the fourth edition, which began in March and will conclude in 2024, participated. Professionals from various departments of Sevilla FC, a national and international reference in data usage and technological development applied to football, were the ones conducting the training sessions. The special guest was the new Sporting Director of Sevilla FC, Víctor Orta, who had already participated in previous editions as a global reference in the field. The following day, it was the turn of the Master’s in Sports Journalism, marking the completion of its tenth academic year. Organized by the Faculty of Communication at the University of Seville, through the Center for Permanent Training, and sponsored by Sevilla FC, this master’s program concluded with a keynote address by Ismael Medina, a journalist from Movistar. The event took place in the press room of the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, named after the illustrious sports journalist José Antonio Sánchez-Araújo. Attending the event were Pastora Moreno, the program’s director, Enrique López, the director of Continuing and Complementary Education at the University of Seville, and the club’s vice president, Fernando Carrión, who highlighted the club’s commitment to the media. He stated, “Sevilla FC has always understood the importance of walking hand in hand with communication, hence the firm commitment, since the beginning of this century, to have a robust Communication Department, in line with the entity, growing with it and sensitive to new technologies and the current digitization of information. It is a source of pride for us to collaborate with the Faculty of Communication through this master’s program from its inception, training journalists.” Furthermore, the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán not only serves as a luxurious “classroom” for its own courses and master’s programs but is also regularly chosen by LaLiga Business School to host special sessions for many of its academic offerings. If there was a visit from students of the Master’s in Sports Law in April and students from Hong Kong in May, these days saw the visit of students from the Master’s in Management, Methodology, and Analysis in Football. These students had the opportunity to explore the inner workings of the club and its management in various areas and departments: youth academy recruitment – led by David Martín Valle, a scout for the lower categories of Sevilla FC – sports management – led by Fermín Galeote, a member of that department – and data usage for scouting by Jesús Olivera, the Data Football manager at the club.