"The relationship between the Coach and the Sports Director"
Portugal Football School is the education and research unit of the Portuguese Football Federation and one of its objectives is the training and qualification of the different football sports agents.
Following its Action Plan for this season, a Training Course for Sports Agents is included, for which I was invited by the Director of this School, Dr. André Seabra, to give a lecture with the theme "The relationship between the Coach and the Sports Director ".
It was an excellent time for sharing knowledge and personal development.
Pontapé de saída - "O Mundo do Desporto"
Vision Minho Legal Lab is a junior initiative focused on the personal and academic development of students at the University of Minho. It aims to provide young students with useful tools when they enter the job market.
They promoted a conference entitled “Pontapé de Saída – O Mundo do Desporto” which aimed to put students in contact with stakeholders from different areas inherent to this subject: journalism, training, law or management, among others.
I was invited to make a presentation that addressed the theme "Team Management" where I tried to reflect on the creation of successful contexts, the management of high performance teams, communication and leadership.
Generalist and extremely interesting, this is a personal reflection that goes from sport to the world of organizations in general.
"Futebol a sério"
Participation in "Futebol a Sério", a TV show from Canal 11 where we really talk about football, with Sofia Oliveira.
Loulé Sports Meeting
A conversation about the game model and the many factors that can influence it. Also with the futsal coach Orlando Duarte.
Desporto 360
Participation in the online show “Desporto 360” created by Prime Books and Sapienta Sports, sharing experiences and reflections on various topics related not only to football, but also to Miguel Cardoso himself.
#StayHome Skills Clinic
Miguel Cardoso took some of his experiences to the youngest, in this participation in the #StayHome Live Skills Clinic, promoted by the Canadian team Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
"Futebol Total"
Chatting with Canal 11's "Futebol Total" about my career, the times we are going through and challenges for the future.
Football and Pandemic
The challenges that the teams had to face in terms of training during mandatory isolation, derived from the global pandemic of COVID-19, were the subject of a series of five reports produced by Portuguese television Sport TV based on the analysis of Miguel Cardoso.
Let the children play
When, in April 2013, I went to Ukrania and arrived in Donetsk to coordinate the Youth Teams of FC Shakhtar Donetsk and coach the U21s, one of the things that pleased me was the fact that only from the U12 there were teams with formal competition and integrated into the academy's work dynamics. There was another pedagogical space that allowed the boys to play and where I sometimes went to talk to the "coaches". I realized that the spirit was completely different. It has essentially a social nature, in the sense of providing sports practice to children belonging to a poor population with very little sports offer and with an inefficient education system as well, where physical education was no longer than a vision of the future. I could have changed that reality and given it a different character! I didn’t do it because I didn’t want to and when I see what’s happening in many “training schools”, the attitude of many, the action of some of the so-called “sports agents” towards these children, I am convinced of how good were the options taken at the time.
I also remember that as the coordinator of the «Domingos e Rui Barros Football School», which worked at Campo da Bateria in Matosinhos, I had a meeting with physical education teachers, who were the ones who had the task of boosting activities. One of them said that he had a problem: «My boys sometimes leave the group and go to play in the long jump box, in the sand»! I smiled, of course. I told him that I was not going to give him my opinion right away, that he thought about it and that we would talk next week. So it was. New conversation and he asks me if I thought his classes were monotonous and if what they did, sometimes, did not interest the students ... I was happy! He reached the point that my provocation wanted him to achieve! Therefore, he concluded: «What need do you think that are fulfilling those children looking for sand to build castles during your activities? », « To play, for sure »! This was the starting point for a journey of transformations that that teacher started. Making football allow children to use what is so good about this game and its adapted forms, the ball, interaction, competition, playing, physical activity, to accomplish something so intrinsic to the childhood: playing. Just play!
Let the children play, whatever they want. On the street, in the playgrounds, in the most informal spaces that we find and where we can take them, if it has to be…They don’t need, with 9 years old, to already know the names of all football players! Above all, they can know the names of all the neighbouring children, the smell of the earth, the cold of the rain, the slipping of the mud, the colour of the sun throughout the day, and the crying of something that "on the street" did not run good!
By the way...
Bayern Munich to end U9 and U10 teams
BAYERN MUNICH has announced that its U-9 and U10 teams are ending, meaning that the Academy entry level will be at U11s starting in the summer of 2022.
The U9s will not end from 2021/22 and the U10s will be extinct from the end of this season.
“With this step, we want to achieve more creative freedom in the leisure time of very young children, who also have the opportunity to try other sports.”
Holger Seitz, vice president on the FC Bayern campus, said: "FC Bayern is aware of its social responsibility, especially for young football players in the Munich area and in the surrounding regions.
"With this step, children should be able to develop more time in their usual home club environment without pressure to perform and without additional time."
Peter Wenninger, sports director for the U15 age groups, added: "With this step we want to achieve more creative freedom in leisure time for very young children, who also have the opportunity to try other sports.
"Long-term studies have shown that learning different sports skills and abilities can have a positive impact on everyone's football performance."
In response, Manchester United Academy manager Nick Cox tweeted: "If this is true, you will see a continuation of a trend already taken in Swedish football, American football, Rugby. It’s very interesting."
“La Liga” International TV Show
Analysis, debate, exchange of opinions and sharing of knowledge, always with football as a backdrop and with one of the best championships in the world at the center of the conversation. Miguel Cardoso has been a regular guest in the program.
Elite Soccer
Press Room
Discuss the game, analyze, dissect, communicate. The press room is the place to send messages and where the game, in its different variants, should be discussed and debated. These are some of the thoughts expressed by Miguel Cardoso and which always go hand in hand with what is central: his team's Game Idea.
NSCAA Convention
In 2014 and 2015, Miguel Cardoso was one of the guests of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, for his Annual Convention, in Philadelphia, where he shared knowledge not only in theoretical sessions, but also in practical training. It’s with this sharing that we become richer.
Aspire in the World Fellows
Some of the main football clubs and federations, as well as former players and other figures of the football universe, came together to debate, exchange ideas and share knowledge about the game. Miguel Cardoso was one of the invited speakers, representing FC Shakhtar Donetsk, in the editions that took place in Paris, Berlin and Doha, in 2014 and 2015.
