12 QUALITY AREAS
The working processes connected with the Cognitive Care Quality Area include:
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COGNITIVE CARE Integration of football and academic studies; optimisation of logistics; educational support, multi-sport training, individual development; emotional and psychological support; holistic personal development
Do you have any communication with local schools about potential academy recruits?
Do you have a formally defined coaching methodology?
Do you evaluate biological age of your academy players?
wrap-around focus. This ensures that both the football and non- football parts of the education programme are aligned. Cognitive science is constantly evolving, and our understanding of human learning and how to improve it is also becoming more complex, leading to new tools and methodologies being used in football academies looking to achieve better results in caring for their players. Traditionally, it was coaches that predominantly tasked with ‘teaching’ players within a football academy. Now, and increasingly, the organisational
Cognitive Care within an academy system relates to both a player’s football- specific development and more general aspects of their education. Effectively, it deals with everything related to the 'how', 'what' and 'when' academy players learn and improve. Professional academy settings are increasingly realising that successful player development requires a holistic approach with a
“The starting points for learning are values!” Roberto Samaden, FC Internazionale Milano
Do you implement biobanding principles in age-group composition?
Do you conduct IQ test of coaches?
Do team or players have
Do you film youth matches for subsequent analysis?
non-football goals in such activities?
structure will include experts in various fields, as well as more formal academic teachers and tutors whose task it is to connect the football education to academic learning and ensure the player does not miss out, especially if they do not make it. We can objectively measure certain levels of Cognitive Care by analysing the numbers and types of staff employed, their qualifications and/or membership of respective professional groups. Academies can also measure the level of their players’ achievement compared to the level of sporting development. However, a proportion of efforts will be intangible, as it concerns individual development. Here, the focus could be on ensuring demonstrable commitment to sustained improvement in processes and methods.
Are there any activities related to non-verbal communication?
Do you have full-time individuals for education at your club’s youth academy?
Do you have a room specifically set-up for player education?
Do you have full time individual for welfare at your club’s youth academy?
Do you have a full-time sport psychologist at youth academy?
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YOUTH FOOTBALL 2021-23
YOUTH FOOTBALL 2021-23
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