3 months
10/12/2025
6–8 hours per week
Expert program (executive education)
Online, asynchronous
Spanish/English
Intermediate
The program addresses a highly specific area within the rehabilitation process, focusing on the final stages prior to the footballer’s reintegration into regular team dynamics. The main objective is to equip professionals with the tools needed to understand, analyze, plan, and execute the actions that define this decisive stage, during which all work is carried out on the field.
To achieve this level of expertise, the certification includes courses dedicated to physical–tactical conditioning and tactical performance, the latter focusing on understanding the game from the coach’s perspective. This integrated educational approach places rehabilitation within a functional context, closely aligned with the real demands of competition.
In contemporary football, the increase in physical demands and competitive intensity has led to a significant rise in injury incidence, solidifying the role of the rehabilitation specialist (readaptador deportivo) as an essential figure within technical staff. Their work goes beyond facilitating recovery; it focuses on optimizing the player’s condition prior to their return to the group, ensuring they rejoin the team in the best possible state. This certification is designed to meet these modern demands, providing specialized training fully adapted to the requirements of high-performance sport.
1. Fundamentals of the Return-to-Competition Process
2. Small-Sided Games: Integrating Tactical and Physical Training
3. Technical and Tactical Fundamentals of Football
Access to the Innovity® Method: Science, Methodology, and Application
Expert Mentorship: testimonials, best practices, and insights from experts—directly from the field
Access to materials anytime, anywhere, and from any device
24/7 Support, synchronous or asynchronous, according to your preference, provided by the Innovity professional team
Case Method: effective use of learned tools and concepts
Self-Assessments to measure learning progress
Comprehensive final exam
Certificate of completion or attendance, as applicable
PhD in Sports Sciences from the University of Zaragoza (Spain). Bachelor in Sport Sciences from the University of Barcelona and in Physiotherapy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is the author of numerous scientific articles, with research lines focused on the effects of inertial resistance training systems, both in their application for performance enhancement and injury prevention.
PhD in Exercise Physiology from the University of Isfahan (Iran) and Bachelor’s degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences from Najafabad University, with a Master’s in Exercise Physiology. He has served as a performance director, sports scientist, and strength and conditioning coach in elite football clubs in Iran, Portugal, Greece, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
PhD in Sports Sciences from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (Portugal), and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Physical Education from the same institution. He has fifteen years of coaching experience, having worked as an assistant coach in the Portuguese Primeira Liga and Segunda Liga, and as head coach in the Campeonato de Portugal (Vila Real).
PhD in Sports Sciences with a specialization in Sports Training from the Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education at the University of Coimbra (2015, Portugal). His scientific output includes more than 300 articles published in journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) of Web of Science (Clarivate).
PhD in Sports Sciences and Bachelor in Physical Education, both from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He is the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles, two books, and 20 book chapters.
Bachelor in Journalism from the Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya, and graduate of the “Specialist in Scouting and Analysis” and “Specialist in Individual Fundamentals by Position” programs at MBP School. He currently serves as the head of analysis for Girona B.