I remember when I was a kid that playing in the street I found a soccer ball. It was full of mud, and barely could be found in the middle of the bush. I took it home, washed it, cleaned it up and that ball became my friend. We had lots of fun, we cried…

Throughout my professional career, I have had the opportunity to be close to hundreds, or even thousands, of Soccer Coaches. Coaches that reached the success they ambitioned, at different levels, and even some top coaches such as Leonardo Jardim, Rui Faria, Paulo Bento, Luiz Filipe Scolari, Mano Menezes, Fernando Santos and many, many others. I…

The career of a high-level athlete in most sports ends before the age of 40. In the vast majority of professional activities when we are in the early twenties, this is an experimentation stage. We are at the beginning of a professional career that will extend for about 4 or 5 decades. In sports, an…

The offensive organization was one of the most important aspect that led the Portuguese U19 National Soccer Team to win the European Championship. The Technical Coordinator of the Portuguese youth soccer teams, Joaquim Milheiro, explains, in an exclusive interview to Soccer HUB, what the main key aspects of this game moment are! JM: “Above all,…

– Exclusive Soccer HUB interview with Dan Fieldsend, the author of the best-selling book “The European Game” a book on the methods used by the top European clubs, visited by Dan, such as Paris Saint-Germain, Olympique Lyon, Athletic Bilbao, FC Porto, Benfica, Sporting Lisbon, Atletico de Madrid, Barcelona, Marseille, Juventus, AC Milan, Basel, FC Bayern,…

 “I tried to absorb as much as possible as a player and, within my ideas, to use what I think is most beneficial for what I want to see in my teams.” Armando Teixeira, who soccer baptized as Petit, was an internationally successful player. For the National Team of Portugal participated in world and European…

In this article I will (once again), give my opinion about my beliefs and the way that I like to work on the development. Share your thoughts and ideas on the comments below. Very often I hear coaches saying that they want their teams to “play like Barcelona, press like Liverpool, or counterattack like Napoli”,…

– Dan Fieldsend, the author of the best-selling book “The European Game” a book on the methods used by the top European clubs, visited by Dan, such as Paris Saint-Germain, Olympique Lyon, Athletic Bilbao, FC Porto, Benfica, Sporting Lisbon, Atletico de Madrid, Barcelona, Marseille, Juventus, AC Milan, Basel, FC Bayern, Austria Vienna, Red Bull Salzburg,…

The beginning of the season is here and with it, the return to work. During the holidays athletes and coaches have the opportunity to rest, relax, do much of what is not possible during the sporting season due to the busy schedule and the limitations associated with the responsibilities of high competition (in physical terms,…

The Technical Coordinator of the Portuguese Youth National Soccer Teams, Joaquim Milheiro, explains how can we promote training sessions with the objective of developing the creativity of the players: JM: “What we look for is that our training can include a lot of “guided discovery”! In spite of giving immediate solutions to our players, what…