INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS TRY OUT IN SPAIN SIA Academy holds soccer tryouts at its High Performance Center with the objective of attracting talented international players. Trying out for a semi-professional team is the first step towards reaching the elite. UD SIA Benigànim’s preseason has started in style. After a brilliant last season in the so-called new

THE IMPORTANCE OF INTENSITY IN SOCCER    There is no doubt that one of the most heard words in training sessions and soccer games is ‘intensity’. We frequently find ourselves using this term, however, sometimes without understanding the real meaning this word. Are we making a mistake when it comes to demanding intensity over and

THE SECRET OF COACHES WHO HAVE SUCCESSFUL AS FOOTBALL PLAYERS What do Pep Guardiola, Zinédine Zidane, Ronald Koeman, Mauricio Pochettino, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Andrea Pirlo and Sergio Conceiçao all have in common? The list of names that makes up this easy-to-answer question could be endless. All of these coaches have been elite footballers. There is

Third Division Spanish League The Third Division is the fourth most important category of the Spanish soccer league. The Third Division was established in 1929 as a non-professional category right below the Spanish Second Division and above the regional categories. Subsequently, from 1977, when the Second Division “B” was created, it was placed below this

MOTIVATION AS A FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT IN SPORTS PERFORMANCE             Motivation has been and continues to be one of the fields of greatest interest. It is already well-known in the sports community how important motivation is nowadays in order to maximise the talent and potential of an athlete. However, in many cases the exact definition of

Do we know how to listen? I am Jose Gonzalez, in charge of the Psychology Department at Soccer Inter-Action. Thanks to my Psychology Degree, I have the ability to understand the needs of our soccer players and know how to encourage problem solving to help them improve their sporting performance. I studied the Master of