Professor Valter Di Salvo, Director of Football Performance & Science speaks during the launch of the Qatar Football Analytics Dashboard (QFAD) at Aspire Academy yesterday.
Professor Valter Di Salvo, Director of Football Performance & Science yesterday launched the Qatar Football Analytics Dashboard (QFAD) – a set of tools that will help analyse and support the sporting performance of players in Qatar.
The Qatar Football Analytics Dashboard was unveiled at the start of a two-day workshop at Aspire Academy in Aspire Zone, Doha.
Attending the launch event were coaches from all 14 Qatar Stars League (QSL) clubs and they were joined by coaches for the national teams including Jorge Fossati, coach of the senior national team.
The Dashboard will enable all players in Qatar to be analysed and the results will be made available to clubs, coaches and the players themselves.
Available data will include distances covered on the field, players’ ranking in terms of aspects of their game (eg passing) both in comparison to team-mates as well as players from other clubs, along with video analysis. The QFAD represents the culmination of more than 18 months of work conducted by Professor Di Salvo and his team from the Aspire Academy Performance & Science department, working in close conjunction with Qatar Football Association QFA and QSL. Meanwhile, the two-day workshop being held in Aspire Zone focuses on player performance and scientific analyses.
The first day of the workshop involved presentations to around 120 participants, comprising mainly football coaches working in Qatar.
The presentation today will be given to around 400 QSL players.
Describing the importance of the QFAD, Professor Valter Di Salvo said: “The Qatar Football Analytics Dashboard is primarily designed to support individual players by providing them with detailed personal data and information analysing their performance.
"Equipped with this information, they are able to push themselves continually to improve their game," he said.
"We want Qatari players to first compete with themselves and to push their performance to the limit, before they turn their attention to focus on their opposition.
Fossati congratulated Aspire Academy, QFA and QSL by saying, “This is a most welcome initiative and a very useful tool to support the development of football in Qatar. No doubt science has a useful part to play in improving and developing players’ performance," said Qatar's national team coach.
