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Technology coaches use have evoleved tremndeously through the time I was born (1997) to now. One of the most used forms of technology coaches use today is film. The quaility and use of film has increasded greratly over the past nineteen years. Cameras used for todays film are more clear and can be used to pinpoint certain aspects of a game and targets. Where as nienteen years ago, film was rarely used and if it was it was not clear at all. Film is used to not only see the potential and skills of the other team, but to use on their own teams to correct errors previously made. When a coach is preparing for a game against an opposing team he will often look to film to see what to expect and how to set up his or her team for the game. This goes also for after a game when a coach uses film from his or her own team. The coach and players both look to the film to see how their performances work. When viewing film, they are able to see what does work in the game and what doesn’t. This includes plays and individual players strengths and weaknesses. Before film technology was introduced, coaches could only base plays and thoughts of teams including their own, based off of what they saw. Film gives coaches the ability to see what they could have missed and an more in-depth view of the game. Film has also been used to look more into close calls on the field that could have been miscalled by refs. Without the further develpoment of film, coaches wouldnt be able to make the calls and see the plays that are able to now. Another evoltion in the game of soccer

A trend is a change or development in a certain direction. Special trends in soccer are the hearth rate, legs rehab like the Normatech, scouting, strength machines like TRX-cables, footbonaut. These trends are used for soccer athlete’s rehabilitation to better their performances. Everything start in preseason, before the season start you go to the doctor and he take tests of you heart. You run on a treadmill with monitors on your heart. Every 3minutes the speed goes higher and they take blood and note your heart rate. After the test, they do a body scan and look how you react on the test. A couple week later they send you special zones. These zones help you to develop your endurance and prevent injuries. When you have everything, the preseason can start. you have zones: maximum heart rate zone, anaerobic zone, aerobic zone and resting zone. These zones are very important in preseason. If a team use this zones good you going to have less injuries and a better shape for the season. After an intensive day of practice or week, you have now a lot of methods to recoup. Before the new technologies the only method you had was running and some massages but now you have so much more. We have ice bath, hot tube, contra bath and rollers. If you have in preseason a practice in the morning and at night, between this practices you can take ice baths to recover the legs. If you are sore you can use hot-packs or hot tubes. Another popular trend seen over the years seen in soccer is leg rehibitions. After a game you can take some contra-baths that is first an ice bath, then a hot bath and that you do 3 times in a row. There is also something new, the normatech. It put some compression on your legs (2012 Nathan Alan Keck). It compress your leg from your toe to your groin. The blood flow in your leg goes up and it removes the actic lacid. Another popular trend seen is the Footbonaut. A Footbonaut is a robot that only some German teams have. It has been shown to improve the skills and the speed of handling the ball by players. It’s the newest method to practice indoor, which is one of the most important tactics in soccer. You can be athletic and strong, but if you cannot handle the basic things in soccer you have a big problem.

With the improvement of technology, there is often issues that arise. Although the development throughout technology has greatly made life easier for professional soccer coaches, there is a down side. One of these downsides is the coaches and players become too dependent on technology. This can go for many different aspects including film, to training, to post game rehibition. When a coach or player becomes too dependent on technology, they can often forget the fundamentals of the game. Soccer athletes are not robots and even though they might be trained to be sometimes, they are humans. Injuries are a huge factor in the professional athlete world and every professional coach endures them. Coaches may sometimes rely on rehab techniques and machines to cure their players instead of the traditional physical therapy techniques. Although these techniques may be successful, sometimes technology does fail and may not work in a coach favor. Sometimes a player may also become too dependent on these techniques and think they do not need to properly take care of their bodies. This effects a soccer coach because his or her players are not playing to their true protentional, or worse, may not even be able to play. This causes chaos in the mind of a professional soccer coach and they may have to rethink a game line up. Besides the risk of players or coaches becoming too dependent on technology resources, technology for the most part makes the job easier for professional soccer coaches. Although rehibition techniques for the most part an advantage, they can sometimes create an issue.

The advancement in technology over the years has helped athletes, coaches, and over lookers of any sport greatly. However, with the advancement in technology, the cost of it has risen increasingly allowing only some schools or clubs the ability to afford it. Since only some athletic departments are able to afford the technology available, it has become a huge concern that schools and clubs that cannot afford it are negatively impacted. For example, if a school cannot afford to film a game and one of their players gets seriously hurt, they are unable to see how their player got hurt and cannot find ways to prevent the injury. Meanwhile, a school that can afford to film a game and see the injury happen as well can find ways to prevent it are at a major advantage because they have the technology to do this. The schools and/or clubs that have this technology are positively impacted since with the money they can afford it and be able to use it in any way they possibly need to. Most of the time the technology is used to better the team or program, and it positively influences them. Whereas, in schools that cannot afford the technology are negatively impacted since they do not have the necessary resources. Another part of the concerns involved with the advantages of technology are pushed towards an ethical perspective. A lot of inner schools, which are ethically mixed, are at a disadvantage when it comes to money. There could be multiple reasons why there is lack of money but the lack of sufficient funding affects these programs and causes them to be at a huge disadvantage because they are unable to have the resources necessary to achieve. Meanwhile, suburban schools and clubs have the advantage since they have the funds that allow them to have the advanced technology required to achieve whatever they need. At a collegiate level, it is very obvious as to who is able to afford the technology and who is not. For instance, when we played Loyola, it was obvious they did not have the technology we do. We were able to outrun them, run our plays the coach created for us, as well as communicate the way our coach taught us, despite the language barrier. Without our coach and the technology we have to offer, we would not be able to do most of the things we do. The technology our soccer team uses is amazing and without it, we would not be where we are today. Our soccer team would not be able to have the video cameras we do to watch film, our athletic trainers that help us with every ache and sore muscles, as well as a very nice soccer stadium to practice in play in. All of these factors of new technology are a huge factor as to why we have such a positive influence on our team as opposed to other schools. Many schools we have played did not have the updated technology like we do and for them, that is a huge negative influence because they got to see that with new technology you are able to do so much better, that is why we won. It is very obvious when a team has good technology and when a team does not. Socal aspects are very influential to a Professional soccer coach.

The application are different according to how the aspect of technology is used. First for the heart rate , soccer players should practice every day with one heart rate monitor in order to know if they have a heart problem or not. However if I could improve that technology I would create a heart rate monitor more powerful in order to evaluate all of the research about the health about the tiredness and about physical limits about my players. For example this monitor would be lighter and smaller than the older one. With more battery and more smart for the detail , for example when the need to drink water and when not. Like if they need to eat some energetic bars and everything like that. Furthermore for the lift machines. Soccer players should use all of the lift machines in order to be ready physically for the games to prevent of the injuries , they should use that during all of the pre-saison, to be ready for the season. If I could develop lift machine I

will create machines which don’t cause back problem after the use of them. I think will create a machine without pounds but with the weight of the player who want to use it. Moreover for the rehabilitation, my players should use all of the rehabilitation technology to be ready and to take care of their body before or after a game. If I could develop the rehabilitation technology I would create some specific rooms just in order to improve the fast of the rest of the muscles. Like a very cold room to ice the body without go in a ice bath and burning your skin. And a very hot room in order to remove the toxins in the body by the perspiration without runing if you are injured and you can’t run. Moreover I would create special compression pants in order to compress and block the blood inside the legs to evacuate the surplus of blood in muscles after a big efforts. Furthermore for the scouting technology. Soccer players should use all of the video that I produce in order to help them to analyse the opponents team against they will play. They should use that before the game. If I could improve that kind of technology i will do it in order to learn about the others team. Like that my players will know how defend and how attack against them during the game to become the best team ever. Secondly it will be to learn about their mistakes in order to correct some tactics placement on the field that we did. If the players could do that and work on those video they will become the best team because there will have no loophole.

After all the research and information that I have done for this paper. I have concluded that if you are a professional soccer coach you have so many more opportunities to make the team better with technology today than ever before. Not only are the quality of your players important, but also the technology you use as a coach. If I can choose in the future for a school with a lot of technology or a school with less technology than is my choice very easy. You can work by yourself on the tactics of your team with help of videos of other teams, so you can make your team ready with the weaknesses of the opponents. If you need to train without information of the others it’s very difficult to find a way to beat them. I also learned that the rehab one of the most important things in a coach career is, maybe you can’t do everything by yourself but with the help of you, your assistant coaches, athletic trainer and your players, you can make it worth. After every practice a stretching and cooldown is necessary, the ice baths, compression, athletic room and massages of the athletic room helps to prevent the injuries of your players. In practice, coaches would use the newest technology ever, the footbonaut is the best thing develop the basic qualities of a player. Training with the heart rate for polar is the best thing ever, if every player wear the polar heart rate you can use an app and see everybody’s shape on the tablet. If a player is tired you can take him out of the exercise and let him do something else that he still works in the same zone like the others, that means that the players don’t be overworked. That means that your players are every time in a good condition for all the games. These aspects are important tools for a professional soccer plater coach. Technology today is completely different than is was nineteen years ago. The evolution of technology has made life easier for soccer players, but for coaches themselves. Without the evolution of technology, soccer would not be where it is today.