Villarreal CF: Developing people

• Enrique Parra ^[1]
  1. [1] Villarreal C.F.
• Localización: Actividad física y deporte: ciencia y profesión, ISSN 1578-2484, ISSN-e 2659-8930, Nº. 31, 2019, págs. 18-18
• Idioma: inglés
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  • At Villarreal C.F, we are extremely interested in the all-round education and development of our players; for this reason, the training of our coaches plays a key role in helping us achieve our proposed objectives. Because of this, our Methodology and Psychology Departments carry out a programme of comprehensive training for players and coaches, in which the main goal is to prepare coaches and make them capable of creating enriching learning environments for their players.

    The entire formative process is directed towards generating different learning contexts which will help the young player to be independent (responsible for their formative process), to understand the game (to be able to adapt to different and changing situations that arise within the game) and formed in regards to values (to see and experience different lifestyles from their own and develop their values and prosocial behaviours).

    When carrying out the process of improving our players, it is extremely important to know that for Villarreal C.F., football is a complex sport, as it ‘exhibits properties or behaviour that cannot be deduced from the individual parts separately. It is irreducible.” (Balagué & Torrents, 2011) One of the techniques used to improve our young footballers is the setting of goals proposed by Locke (1968). Within this technique, we can find the three stages that we use to divide the work we do with each player: analysis, plan of action and evaluation.

    During these last three seasons, more than 100 coaches have taken part in continuous training carried out by the Methodology and Psychology Departments, adapting their content to the needs of our coaches and players.

    All of this is done with the purpose of developing people, so that aside from whether they become footballers or not, they will be people who are aware of different ways of life within our society and who are ready for the different events that they will face in their futures.