TACTICAL PERIODIZATION IS A SYSTEMIC SOCCER TRAINING METHODOLOGY CREATED AND DEVELOPED BY PROF. VITOR FRADE (UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AT THE SPORTS UNIVERSITY OF PORTO) AND THAT GAINED MAJOR WORLD RECOGNITION WHEN JOSÉ MOURINHO EMERGED HAS ITS GREATEST EMBASSADOR AND PROMOTOR!

​

THIS IS A TRAINING METHOD THAT DEVELOPED ITS OWN TRAINING PRINCIPLES, THESE ONES COMPLETLY BROKE WITH THE "TRADITIONAL" TRAINING CONCEPTS THAT WERE WIDELY CONSIDERED AS ULTIMATE TRUTHS. 

​

THE COMPLETE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR TEAM IN ALL ITS TRAINING DIMENSIONS IS THE SOLE GOAL OF THIS METHODOLOGY. BUILDING BETTER TEAMS AND PROMOTING BETTER PLAYERS THROUGH THE RESPECT OF METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES SUCH AS:

​

• SUPRA-PRINCIPLE OF SPECIFICITY

• PRINCIPLE OF HORIZONTAL ALTERNATION TRAINING IN SPECIFICITY

• PRINCIPLE OF COMPLEX PROGRESSION

• PRINCIPLE OF DISASSEMBLY AND HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF PRINCIPLES OF PLAY

• PRINCIPLE OF PERFORMANCE STABILIZATION

• PRINCIPLE OF GUIDED DISCOVERY

​

WE INVITE YOU TO DISCOVER AND ANALYZE THE "PATTERN TRAINING MICROCYCLE", THE "MODEL OF PLAY", THE "PRINCIPLES AND SUB-PRINCIPLES OF PLAY" AND THE "MODEL OF TRAINING"...

​

 

"We can differentiate traditional analytical training where the different factors are trained in isolation, the integrated training, which uses the ball but where the fundamental concerns are not very different from the traditional one; and there is my way of training, which is called Tactical Periodization. It has nothing to do with the previous two even though many people could think so.”

 

  Mourinho (in Gaiteiro, 2006)

​