Professional Certification in Training Science and Staff Management
El conocimiento transversal dirigido al entrenador de fútbol para el conocimiento de su staff
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Duration:
12 months
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Start Date:
10/12/2025
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Dedication:
6–8 hours per week
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Program Type:
Professional Certification (executive education)
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Modality:
Online, asynchronous
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Language of Instruction:
Spanish/English
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Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
This Professional Certification is designed to strengthen the areas most critical to soccer player performance, providing coaches with a comprehensive understanding of all related processes. It aims to ensure that the coach—as the leader of the staff—is able to plan effectively based on the team’s identified needs, while establishing a shared professional language with other specialists and exercising knowledge-based, effective leadership supported by specific tools, concepts, and practices for each stage of the process.
The program begins with a focus on tactical performance—the area most closely related to the coach’s role—and physical-tactical conditioning, linking these with the ecological dynamics theory of learning.
It then turns to the training of developing players, a crucial aspect for this professional role, complemented by concepts, tools, and methodologies for player assessment—enabling coaches to evaluate performance, detect potential injury risks, and understand emotional and socio-affective parameters that influence player behavior.
The next component helps coaches understand the key factors in developing conditional capacities, particularly strength, power, and speed, which are decisive in athletic performance. All methodological content is presented in relation to the development of soccer-specific skills, ensuring a clear and practical understanding for coaches.
Finally, the certification includes a module focused on technology applied to player assessment, injury treatment, and training processes, introducing coaches to the wide range of technological tools available to enhance performance and optimize decision-making.
This Professional Certification consists of 12 one-month courses, grouped into 4 three-month blocks. It grants— to those who meet the defined requirements— its corresponding online diploma, as well as the diplomas for the four “Expert Programs” that form part of it. The Professional Certification may be completed continuously or by blocks, according to the participant’s preference, with up to 24 consecutive months available to complete it from the time of enrollment.
1. Technical and Tactical Fundamentals of Football
2. Small-Sided Games: Integrating Tactical and Physical Training
3. Ecological Construct and Football
4. Injury Risk Factors in Prevention and Rehabilitation
5. Methodology of Performance Assessment and Injury Risk Factors
6. Psychosocial Performance and Sport
7. Methodology and Technology of Strength Training in Football
8. Strength Training Using Inertial Devices
9. Complex Speed Training
10. Fundamentals and Technology of Player Assessment
11. Methodology of Performance Assessment and Injury Risk Factors
12. Sports Training and Immersive Reality
What includes this program?
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
Pricing
€ 720
€ 60 per month - 12 months
Our Experts
James Dixon
PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the State University of New York at Albany. Since 1999, he has held academic positions at Trinity University, the College of William & Mary, and the University of Connecticut, where he has served as Associate Professor (2005–2014), Full Professor (since 2014), and has taken on leadership roles as head of the Development and the Perception–Action–Cognition areas within the Department of Psychological Sciences. He has directed the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action since 2014.
Maurici Abraham López-Felip
PhD in Ecological Psychology from the University of Connecticut (2019), Master of Science in Exercise Science from Southern Illinois University (2014), and Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences from the University of Barcelona (2009). He is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Kognia Sports Intelligence (since 2019), a Barcelona-based company pioneering tactical analysis in football through artificial intelligence. He served as Head of Research for the Team Sports Department at FC Barcelona (2016–2019).
Eduardo García Prat
Graduate in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences (INEFC, Lleida) and holder of a Master’s in High Performance Sport (INEFC, Barcelona) and a Master’s in Sports Rehabilitation (EUSES, Girona). He has developed a career of more than fifteen years linked to high performance, with a particular focus on professional football. He works as a technical consultant, designing performance optimization, injury prevention, and rehabilitation programs for elite footballers in European leagues, including Dani Olmo, Thiago Alcântara, Eric García, and Álex Baena, among others. He has supported internationally renowned players, as well as athletes from other elite contexts, including WTA tennis players such as Paula Badosa and Carla Suárez, and MotoGP riders such as Remy Gardner.
Marc Madruga Parera
PhD in Sport Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Girona. Official Master’s Degree in Integrative Physiology (University of Barcelona). In the academic field, he has worked at various universities. As a researcher, his work focuses on the study of injury risk factors in athletes and on improving sports performance. He has coached athletes for more than 30 years, particularly football players, and served as strength and conditioning coach for the second football team of FC Barcelona.
Alex Latinjak
PhD in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2010), Master’s Degree in Research from the same institution (2007), and Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Barcelona (2006). He completed a postdoctoral stay at the University of Thessaly (Greece) in 2011. In the academic field, Dr. Latinjak has held positions at the University of Girona (2009–2017) and at the University of Suffolk (United Kingdom) (2017–2024). Since 2025, he has served as Assistant Professor at University College Dublin and, since 2022, as Visiting Professor at the University of Thessaly. Among his most notable roles are: sport psychologist at the Bruguera Tennis Academy (2002–2009); program leader and psychologist at clubs in Girona; head of the Psychology Project for the Academy and sport psychologist for the first team of Club Bàsquet Girona in the ACB (2022–2025); performance psychology consultant at the Ipswich Town FC Academy (2019–2020); and collaborator with KTM Red Bull MotoGP (2023).
Andrés Darbyshire
Oliver Gonzalo Skok
PhD in Sports Sciences from the University of Zaragoza (Spain). Bachelor in Sports Sciences from the University of Lleida. He is the author of numerous scientific articles (85 JCR), with research lines focused on the effects of inertial strength-training systems, functional asymmetries, and the influence of biological age on performance. He has coached athletes for more than 18 years, particularly basketball players and footballers. He served as a return-to-play specialist and strength coach for Sevilla F.C., and was responsible for the youth academy of CAI Zaragoza and for the Spanish national basketball team.
Javier Jorge Vizuete
PhD in Sports Performance from the University of Barcelona. Bachelor in Sport Sciences from the National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia (INEFC, University of Barcelona). He has worked as a strength and conditioning coach for high-level basketball clubs and players, including FC Barcelona, as well as for the field hockey team of the Real Club de Polo. In recent years, he has focused particularly on the training and development of young athletes, specifically on the understanding and development of complex speed in team sports.
Adam Kiefer
Dr. Adam Kiefer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), where he is also a core member of the Matthew Gfeller Center for NeuroHealth and an affiliate of the Sports Medicine Institute. Dr. Kiefer is Co-Director of the STAR Heel Performance Laboratory (Simulation, Training, Analytics & Rehabilitation), a translational research group focused on leveraging immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, and behavioral science to address critical challenges in the prevention and rehabilitation of sports injuries.
Alireza Rabbani
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.
Diogo Coutinho
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).
Felipe Manuel Clemente
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).
Gibson Moreira Praça
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.
Adrià Millán Monterroso
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.