Proposals to create an exciting and motivating environment in times of covid-19 in the youth sector
December 14, 2020
COVID-19 AND EMOTIONS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS The psychological impact of isolation due to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic caused by Covid-19 has been violent, particularly for children and adolescents, who have seen the possibility of responding to a series of fundamental needs characterizing the their age. Physical contact…
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The emergence of an illusion: playing with game times.
February 20, 2021
It is usually said that time is a key variable in the game. But does this phantom "time" really exist? Time could in fact be a great illusion. Certainly one of those illusions necessary for our lives. Contemporary physics claims that there is no such thing as “time” at a fundamental and elementary level of matter. Time is indeed real in…
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Energy in motion.
January 26, 2021
The winner in happiness is the one who has many attitudes. (Silvio Ceccato). In the 80s Silvio Ceccato in "Engineering of Happiness" (Rizzoli, Milan 1985) addressed the theme relating to attentional and nervous energy. "This energy delivered from a source, in our case from the nervous system, has various possibilities. It can expand or…
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Effective communication in life and on the field
March 8, 2021
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION IN LIFE AND ON THE FIELD In a world that is moving ever faster, the ability to attract and concentrate attention has become the real strength of some and the dilemma of others. “My kids don't pay attention when I talk!” “I have difficulty making people understand the task, they aren't used to concentrating!” You…
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The identity of the evolutionary process
September 5, 2023
We have been consciously trying to constantly work to improve our organizations for years now. It is common to think that the success of the organization, especially in the sporting field, is attributable to the resources deployed, mostly economic and human. In this limited vision, however, we run the risk of forgetting the history…
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Coach and Manager, assonances on the pitch
April 4, 2021
The word Manager has been widely used in the sports field for years to also refer to the figure of the coach. The SPORTS MANAGER has a strategic and managerial focus, mainly dealing with the planning of the various processes of the organization. His skills also extend to economic, administrative and often legal aspects. The role…
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Youth soccer: a systems approach to learning in complexity
November 4, 2020
During the last twenty years, also thanks to the diffusion of the contribution of developmental cognitive neuroscience and the unfolding of the theory of complex dynamic systems (Thelen & Smith, 1994), scientists have found a meeting point between various disciplines, including psychology, biology, physics, adhering to a new…
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The abductive moment in player training in contemporary football
February 2, 2021
In a gaming context such as the contemporary one in which processes of definition and expression of identity are at stake and, consequently, of creation and interpretation of meaning, understanding and manipulation of the context, dynamic definition and functional use of relationships with all the protagonists of the game, an…
by Francesco AmbrosiniUEFA Youths & Grassroots subCoach
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Managing complexity from an early age
October 22, 2020
https://vimeo.com/467714164 Is it possible to immerse the child, right from the start, within the complexity typical of the game of football? What are the reasons that lead us to change the classic paradigms of training for children? I'm talking to you about it today together with my friend and colleague Mattia Rizzo.
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Learning in the Game
December 16, 2023
There is always a first time for everything, to question yourself, to learn, to grow, to move away from a safe haven, to overcome limits through knowledge, to do all these things together in the time of a choice. However, every time you really ask yourself about learning in the game of football, everything changes, it is a first time…
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Energy in motion: the principle of safety
February 24, 2021
“In all mental hospitals there are many madmen possessed by many certainties!” F. Pessoa Where do we start from when talking about the energy principle relating to safety? From what I'm feeling exactly right now as I ask myself this question; that is, the insecurity of feeling capable or not of being able to deal with such a "big" topic,…
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Truncated intentionality
March 30, 2022
Whenever in an educational proposal we eliminate an opponent or a direction of play, we favor and stimulate, on the part of our students or adult players, the development of truncated intentionality, no longer linked to the purposeof the action (I pass the ball onto my teammate's run because he has space behind the opposing lines of…
by Francesco AmbrosiniUEFA Youths & Grassroots subCoach
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