Luis Enrique uses a new system to direct his training sessions. EFE / RFEF / Pablo Garcia /
Technology does not stop landing in football and tries to improve many aspects of the sport to have better performances. The spanish soccer team, coached by Luis Enrique, he did not want to be left behind in this new era and, in training before the match against Switzerland for the League of Nations in Europe, implemented an innovative system to optimize performance: walkie talkie on your readers to communicate.
Since VAR and semi-automatic offside have already appeared to support referee decisions, or GPS to know player performance, a new tool has now arrived to reduce the margin of tactical errors in teams. On this occasion, the Angera Selection that usually uses innovations, has begun to use a communication system in which the players they receive their coach’s orders from a loudspeaker they carry on their shoulders.
This way the coach can keep in touch with his players without the need for extreme screams on a large playing field and even from another sector of the pitch. Since the Spanish national team was in charge of teaching on its social networks, the former Barcelona manager was on a scaffold, at high altitude, to be able to see the movements and make the necessary changes to his players, with another angle of the pitch.
Although the Spanish national team TD had tried to give instructions in other training sessions from a higher height than normal before the appearance of this system, communication with his players was made difficult by the distance between them. Now, the Spanish coaching staff has implemented speakers on the back of each player where they will receive the voice of Luis Enrique very clearly.
It is a similar, if not identical, system to that used by cyclists at the Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia and other races of this sport. There they receive data on their performance, instructions on the strategy to follow and other details.
In addition to this new system, the team from the country that won its only World Cup in South Africa 2010 also uses a giant screen on the sideline where his coach is tasked with teaching his players about mistakes and successes in selected video snippets. The Spanish national team tries to achieve perfection with its training ideas and wants to reach its second world title in Qatar.
Source: Clarin