Ruben S.

• Coached and currently coaching youth, amateur and professional athletes, coaches and sports executives in Spain
• I worked with different kind of ages but I am specialized with athletes minimum 16 years old and above that have very clear that they want to have a collegiate or professional career in Soccer. But I usually work with athletes, coaches and executives that already are professional.
• I do both presential and online coaching
• Graduated UEFA PRO Soccer Coach by the Royal Spanish Federation of Futbol and Union of European Football Associations
• Certified Sport Manager by the Royal Spanish Fútbol Federation
• 5-year degree in Sport Science specialized in Soccer at the National Institute of Physical Education, Barcelona, Spain
• I worked in different soccer camps such as Xavi Hernandez Soccer Camp for 4 years as a Soccer Instructor for 4 Years
• I have made more than 60 conferences and trainings around the world on Neuroscience of Top performance to all sport related people; athletes, coaches, sports agents and sports executives.
• I have coached athletes, coaches and executives from Spain, Check Republic, Italy, New Zeland, Algeria, USA, Hungary, England
• Trained in Neuroscience of sports performance to La Liga coaches, UEFA Pro Coaches in Catalonia, Spain, world class and olympic athletes from other sports disciplines
• Taught Neuroscience of Sports Performance at the Catalan Federation of Soccer

• Professional Soccer Player, Barcelona, Spain, 1998 - 2013
• Played more than 600 games at the professional level in Spain
• 4 Playoffs to 2nd Division B
• 1 Playoff to 2nd Division A
• Received Gold Medal at the President Cup of Spain in 2004 – 2005 season
• Participated in Copa Del Rey National Soccer Competition, based in Murcia, 2013

PRINCIPLES of coaching:

• Each level of athletics; amateur, pro or world class has its own characteristics and demands either mentally, physically, emotionally, skill wise, tactics, etc… so after assessing where the athlete is and what he needs to work to make the next step, I optimized and balanced ALL the levels of the individual in an off the field under a stress free and highly effective environment to set up the basis for consistent peak performance in their training and games. Performance is a reflection of all the levels of athletes life.

• I analyze videos of the athlete; games, etc… and I build up the sessions based upon their needs for improvement from amateur, pro and world class level from a neuroscientific and practical stand point.

• Based upon the analisis and information I gather in personal interviews, video analysis and assesments with athletes I create a plan an the sessions.

• First thing I do is go over their athletic and personal habits. The quality of their routine and habits will set up the steps towards sports greatness and growth.
• The sessions are recorded for self conscious and analysis. (optional)

• All the sessions are taught based upon player needs and desires of growth in a way that your brain can most easily, naturally and effortlessly integrate it into your game.

• Feedback is ALWAYS supportive, never highlighting the mistake but the good we can take from the performance and offering suggestions for improvement.

• All players are different so I adapt to the different ways of learning of each player to set up the conditions for the player to learn by himself encouraging and channeling creativity and growth through self discovery.

• Pre, During and post session attention is required from athletes to fully integrate the teachings in their game.

All this makes the process of learning very stress free without losing effectiveness.

Pre-session:

Before the session the player gets an email with the structure of the session and what we are going to go over in it and some pre-session homework: movie, video, knowledge, science, etc…

Session:

1. So first thing is to go over the different routine that I set up previously, to see challenges and improvements.
2. I offer the wholeness of the lesson: I offer a neuro-scientifical principle and session objective and explain the session and expected results.
3. Warm up exercises with a direct transition to the main objectives and tasks of the session.
4. I clearly state the main point I want to work with, what I expect and how, give example, offer the task and let the player discover and grow with it, encouraging and channeling his/her creativity in the most powerful direction.
5. Same thing with main point 2 and 3
6. Then we have cool dawn exercise and preventive work.
7. At the end the player with my help explains back the session; part by part sharing impressions and feelings in a way that he integrates all the knowledge and practice into his/her game.
8. I provide accountability, inspiring words for the next session and some advance of what we will do to put into players awareness of what is coming and get them excited to continue working.

Post session:

Video analysis of the session and feedback