With Cristbal I am very comfortable, we understand each other just by looking at each other, highlights the physical trainer of the Ferrol team.
29 feb 2024 . Updated at 05:53 a.m.
Luis Fandio joined this season as Racing’s physical trainer, where he replaced Kiko Corredoira, who left the Ferrol team at the end of last season. Fandio’s work has been impeccable, as is evident with the performance of the racing players in a league as tough and demanding as the Second Division.
—How do you face this stage in Racing?
—I am delighted in Racing and in Ferrol. I have worked for many years with Cristbal and Manjarn and for me they are my trusted group, from which I separated after the time at Racing Santander, since I wanted to be close to my children and I had the opportunity to work again at Deportivo. Forming a tandem with them is something fabulous, we know each other and we know everything just by looking at each other. The adaptation was done and it is very easy for me to work with them. At the staff level I found a wonderful group. It is no secret that this locker room is a family, it is a group that works perfectly. Racing is a small club in terms of structure, although with an exemplary, brutal operation. There is no need for more people, it is not oversized. It works very well, when you want something you know who to turn to and you know that they will solve it for you. Working in this club is wonderful, everything is very easy. Above this and next to my house, since I live in Sada.
—And the club?
—I found the club with an exciting project, with enormous growth potential, which is on the right track. In addition, we are extremely lucky to have a staff that works very well.
—How is this template on a physical level?
—All the teams work very well on the physical aspect, the level is very high and it has to be that way, especially in the Second Division, which is a very demanding category. The data offered by the GPS carried by each player helps us control the physical aspect of each player’s home. These are all very good data, which reflect that the preparation is very good. I insist that not only us, the rest of the clubs too. On the other hand, at the individual level, states of form are specific, ephemeral and unexpected. That is to say, there may be people who are in great shape and not because of planning, but because of other things that happen around them, even mentally and not physically. I see Racing in a great moment physically.
—The Second League is long and hard. How does it influence when planning physical preparation?
—It is prepared week by week. You no longer plan in September what you will do in the month of May. We know what we want to look for and we plan it week by week. What really affects them is the days of training they can do in a week. If you play the next game on Saturday or Sunday and if you have a game in the middle of the week, things change. The rest is always the same, you load up in the middle of the week and then drop out to be able to get to the game at full capacity. There are no peaks in form, what was said before, now we don’t plan like that.
—Has physical planning changed a lot in recent years?
—Very much. Right now we know that there is no performance if there is no specificity. Therefore, most of the training is specific, that is, in our case based on football, although apart from the hour and a half that the team is training on the field, they also work in the gyms, although it is something complementary. . The fundamental thing is what happens on the green, it is what gives us performance. Regarding going to the beach or the mountains, as was done before in the preseason, now it is seen as something anecdotal, for leaving the usual work environment for a day. We cannot think about going to work on the beach to prepare for a Sunday game, it could even be harmful. The work methodology has changed a lot in recent years.
—How does it affect having to change training camps?
—It’s obviously not ideal, although you adapt. We combine work well in A Malata or in Gndara, we use both gyms. When in the future we have a sports city, it is clear that it will help us. We have it naturalized, in part of the routine. I don’t see a major problem, we use the fields we have.
—How does the contribution of nutritionists or sports psychologists now affect it?
—We also have the support of a nutritionist, which is essential. Nowadays every millimeter is taken and having the optimal percentage of fat also becomes an advantage. Nutrition control is essential. As for the psychologist, it is true that there is a mental preparation that must be taken into account. However, I believe that the greatest psychologist is the coach, who is the one who gives you the weekend. I see the figure of a psychologist as good, as long as it is to provide work tools to the coach. Today the technical teams are very numerous and it is because there is a lot of work. In fact, there are technical teams that have one person only to analyze the data provided by the GPS, since the volume of data you receive is very large.
—In football there is information overload and how difficult is it to sift through to get the most useful data?
—That’s true, not just in football, in general, it’s in all sports and everything. The important thing is to know what data is going to help you make decisions, operational data, that provides you with information and helps you make decisions, increase or decrease the workload. They are a brutal volume of data that you have to know how to handle. We usually make a graph with this data, which is what we really take advantage of when making decisions.
There will always be injuries in football
Injuries, with several fibrillar tears, have been a headache for the team this league season.
—Do you analyze the reason for so many fibrillar ruptures?
—In football there have always been fibrillar ruptures and there will continue to be. In fact, studies carried out indicate that in the last 25 years they increased by around 4%. Why do they happen? It may be because now football is faster and more intense. Fibrillary tears usually occur during sprints and every day you have to sprint more, hence so many injuries. The rest of the injuries have decreased, although not the hamstring tears. The demands in the parties are enormous and hence the breakups.
—What happened in Racing?
—Except for Chuca’s injury, all of them have been very small and in some of the cases they have not amounted to fibrillar ruptures, just overload. We have everything under control and there is also a ratio of injuries per thousand hours of work. We are below the general average, which is 6.7 per thousand hours of practice and we are at 4.1. The thousand hours of practice are calculated by adding the footballers by the hours they train each day and month. The truth is that we are happy in this regard, in other teams there are many more injuries. In football you have to live with injuries and we, like everyone else, will continue to have them.
GPS offers us live data
Technology, as in other facets of life, has burst into the world of football in a brutal way, providing technicians with thousands of data that must be analyzed and interpreted.
—Are there any of the Racing footballers who surprise Luis Fandio physically?
—Each footballer has his physical profile. There are some that have a surprising ability to accelerate or brake. lvaro Gimnez is one of these special footballers. However, there are other players who are surprising because of the distance they cover in games. Jess Bernal, for example, combines the two things. In each game he is one of those who does the most kilometers, between twelve and thirteen, but he is also capable of doing 800 or 900 meters of great intensity in a game and it is not easy. In general, the players who play inside are the ones who run the most, an average of 12 or 13 kilometers, depending on the profile of the player or the way the team plays. Now it is Jess Bernal who reaches these numbers, although he has also traveled this distance in a match. The one who plays on the inside will always cover more distance and the one who plays on the outside will cover less distance at a higher intensity, that is, sprinting, they are the ones who play on the outside.
—Some physical trainer commented in an interview that he hung the players’ data on a blackboard in the locker room. Do you make them public?
—I don’t hang anything in the locker room. Cristóbal looks at them, I look at them and we see if there is anything different. I know it is true that there are players who ask and I send it to them, both from the matches and from the training sessions, although they have their own data, data from the matches they play through Players, a Mediacoach application. There are players who don’t pay the most attention. What we are all clear about is that the one who runs the most or the one who accelerates the most is not the one who has played the best. What we are clear about is that if the game demands running, the team has to be able to run, but there is no correlation between running and winning. Sometimes you lose and you’ve done a lot of miles. We train to be prepared to do what each match requires to win and endure highly demanding scenarios.
—How do the GPS vests that each player wears when training work?
—In training we have an application that allows us to see live data. The players have vests with GPS that show us everything that each footballer does. They are physical data, total distance traveled, speed and acceleration, which help when making decisions. In Cristbal or Javi matches, with one look they already know if a player is tired. There are clubs that also use heart rate monitors, to know the heart rate, although we do not use them, since they are on the chest and sometimes it bothers the footballers.
—Does everyone use the vests?
—Last year in the First Federation, when there was no data from Mediacoach, it was mandatory in training and in matches, although there are players who say it bothers them. In the Second Division there are clubs that put them on and others that don’t. Mediacoach, which uses an optical system with television cameras, offers them to us and they are reliable. We get more out of it in training.
—Is all this material expensive?
—It is very expensive, the equipment can be around 30,000 euros. Everyone uses GPS. It is a significant investment, although it is worth it since you get a great return.
Thousands of data in football
Mediacoach is a digital portal that provides thousands of data that the technical teams analyze, both to know their own team and their rivals.
—Does the global concept of football change with the data provided by Mediacoach, for example?
—Mediacoach is another world, it offers you millions of data. You need a specialized person to separate the chaff from the grain. I have our data and that of the others, of the rivals that we are going to face each day. He doesn’t worry us too much, Cristbal knows his rivals perfectly and it doesn’t matter if I tell him that this certain player is capable of reaching 34 kilometers per hour. However, I know it is true that we know everything that each player does, well-made passes, crosses, shots, everything. Without a doubt, it is an interesting tool that can be taken advantage of.
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2024-02-29 04:53:00
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