Program

Keynotes (45min Presentation + 15min Q&A session)
Invited Sessions (30min Presentation + 10min Q&A session)
Oral Presentations (10min Presentation + 3min Q&A session)
Poster Presentations (Informal Poster Presentations during the Lunch)
Online Stream os / Virtual Content
- Selected sessions of the congress will be streamed online. These sessions are all 3 keynote speeches and 6 invited speaker sessions, as well as the special guest(s) session.
- Please, note that the times are the local time, WEST – Western European Summer Time – UTC +1
- Streamed content takes up 11 hours across the 2 days of the congress. To be able to access this content, please register for the congress with the participant type “Access to Virtual Content Only”.

13th April 2023

Thursday Hall VIP & Artur Agostinho Auditorium

8h00	10h00	Registration & Welcome Coffee
10h00	10h30	os Opening Session
10h30	11h30	os Keynote #1 Rethinking Youth Football Player Development: Implications and Recommendations João Valente-dos-Santos (FEFD-UL)
11h30	12h10	os Invited Session #1 Off-Season & In-Season: Developing Physical Qualities Outside the Club Environment Mário Simões (THE PEAK)
12h10	12h50	os Invited Session #2 Sporting CP Player-Centred Approach: Winner at the European Club Association (ECA) Awards 2021 in the Football Training Category Tomaz Morais (Youth Academy Director at Sporting Clube de Portugal) & Miguel Henriques (Youth Football Press Officer at Sporting Clube de Portugal)
13h00	14h30	Lunch & Poster Presentations
		Lunch at the Congress Venue
		Informal Poster Presentations
14h30	16h00	Oral presentations
		Oral presentation #1 to #6
16h00	16h30	Coffee Break
16h30	17h10	os Invited Session #3 Strategy of SK Sigma Olomouc in Training Youth Players for Professional Football Jakub Beneš (President of SK Sigma Olomouc MŽ)
17h10	17h50	os Invited Session #4 Complex Diagnostics and Controlled Selection and Development of Football Players David Prycl (BALUO Application Centre)
17h50	18h50	os Keynote #2 New Challenges for Performance and Recovery Enhancement through Molecular Hydrogen Administration in Football Michal Botek (FPC-PUO)
19h00		Leisure time

14th April 2023

Friday Hall VIP & Artur Agostinho Auditorium

08h30	09h00	Welcome Coffee
09h00	09h40	os Invited Session #5 Performance Analysis in Football. How to understand Collective Behaviour and Team Performance Carlos Lago Peñas (FESS-UV)
09h40	10h20	os Invited Session #6 Distribution and Management of External Load through Football-Specific Drills over the Competitive Microcycle Alexis Padrón Cabo (FSSPE-UAC)
10h20	11h20	os Keynote #3 Criteria and Exercise Design during the Sports-Related Functional Rehabilitation of Injured Football Players Carlos Lalín Novoa (AS Roma)
11h20	11h50	Coffee Break
11h50	13h15	Oral presentations
		Oral presentation #7 to #12
13h15	14h30	Lunch & Poster Presentations
		Lunch at the Congress Venue
		Informal Poster Presentations
14h30	16h00	os Special Guests You Want to be a Football Coach? Critical Success Factors Professional Football Coaches and the Portuguese Professional Football Players Union President
16h00	16h40	os Invited Session #7 The Coaching Compass: A Tool to Analyze and Reflect on Coach Behaviors Bart Reynders (FMRS-KU Leuven)
16h40	17h10	Coffee Break
17h10	17h50	os Invited Session #8 Know Yourself: The Role of Personality Traits in Sports Coaching Stef Van Puyenbroeck (FMRS-KU Leuven)
17h50	18h50	os Keynote #4 Coaching the Coaches: When Science Meets Practice Gert Vande Broek (FMRS-KU Leuven)
18h50	19h30	os Awards & Closing Ceremony

Keynote Speakers

João Valente-dos-Santos

Youth Player Development

Assistant Professor, Universidade Lusófona
Coordinator of the Sports Training Speciality, CIDEFES
Coordinator of the Center for Sports Optimization, Sporting Clube de Portugal

Michal Botek

Exercise Physiology

Assistant Professor
Department of Natural Sciences in Kinantropology
Faculty of Physical Culture
Palacký University Olomouc

Carlos Lalín Novoa

Physical Preparation, Football Reeducation and Readaptation

Physical Trainer and Readapter, AS Roma (2021-nowadays).

Gert Vande Broek

Sports Coaching, Group Dynamics, Sport Psychology

Full Professor
Department of Movement Sciences
KU Leuven

Invited Speakers

Mário Simões

Strength and Conditioning and High Performance Training

Sports Performance Manager
CEO THE PEAK

Miguel Henriques

Sports Journalism and Sports Management

Youth Football Press Officer at Sporting Clube de Portugal

Tomaz Morais

Leadership, Motivation, Training and Team Management

Youth Academy Director at Sporting Clube de Portugal

Jakub Beneš

Football Club Management

President of SK Sigma Olomouc MŽ

David Prycl

Motor Diagnostics

Business Development Manager
BALUO Application Centre
Faculty of Physical Culture
Palacký University Olomouc

Alexis Padrón-Cabo

Performance Analysis in Soccer/GPS

Lecturer
Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education
University of A Coruña

Carlos Lago Peñas

Match Analysis, Performance in Team Sports, Football Performance

Full Professor
Faculty of Education and Sports Sciences
University of Vigo

Bart Reynders

Sports Coaching, Group Dynamics, Sport Psychology

Lecturer
Department of Movement Sciences
KU Leuven

Stef Van Puyenbroeck

Sports Coaching, Group Dynamics, Sport Psychology

Lecturer
Department of Movement Sciences
KU Leuven

Special Guests

Paulo Bento

Professional Football Coach

South Korea National Team, Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic, Olympiacos, Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, Portugal National Team, Sporting CP.

Professor Neca (Manuel Gonçalves Gomes)

Professional Football Coach

Coach / Assistant Coach:

Rio Ave Futebol Clube, Club Sport Marítimo, Boavista Futebol Clube, Gil Vicente, Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Sporting Clube de Braga, Portugal (2002), Maldivas (2004-2006)