Football Academy
- About the Academy
- Coach Development Program
- Players Program
- Reviews & Feedback
- Tournament's & Results
Introduction
Sharjah FC is an ambitious club always looking to improve, so since the 1st of July 2020 Sharjah FC has been working together with Ajax Amsterdam to create the best Youth Academy in the UAE.
The objective is to develop the Sharjah FC Youth Football Program as a whole, the coaches and players. Sharjah FC and Ajax will therefore work together to create unity/coherency between all involved departments of the Youth Academy.
Goals
- Improve the organization of the youth academy
- Develop coaches (and other relevant staff involved in the player development pathway
- Develop players
- Develop leaders
Who We Are
Vision
We want to give youth players in Sharjah the chance to fulfil their dreams of playing in the first team of Sharjah FC by inspiring and educating them in the youth academy.
Core Values
- We love our club
- Sharjah is our home
- Discipline is our life
- We want to be the best
- At Sharjah we inspire
Mission
We want to become the best youth academy in the United Arab Emirates.
Football Philosophy
How we play
The formation in which we play at the Sharjah FC Youth Academy is 1:4:3:3. From this formation we make agreements about how to play and we speak of a system. We play with; one goalkeeper, two central defenders, two flank defenders, three midfielders with the point forward (10) and three strikers.
The play of the opponent makes it necessary to agree how to play ball and lost possession. The control of different playing systems is increasingly important within the education in the older teams. The (international) tournaments and competitions are good times to this playing system to test the implementation.
How we practice
To play this system, we practice Cruyff Quality (technical skills), Style of play (tactical skills) and Unique Skills (technical, tactical, physical or mental skills).
We work with a weekly schedule, a two-week schedule and a yearly schedule, so we make sure that all coaches work with the same principles and all kids qualify the same education.
Measurements
Coach Development
In our education plan we obviously have different focus points depending on the age group we are working with, everything we do related to football is made from our three pillars. As we aim to develop a team of individuals each player receives the attention he needs, to improve the best way possible. We don’t just limit our vision about the youth players to what’s happening on the pitch, but our ambition is to fully cover the definition of being a top athlete. Including subjects such as, study, nutrition, medical / performance, science etc.
Coaching Staff
HASSAN ISMAIL
Goalkeeper Coach
KHALID MOHAMED
Football Coach
YOUNIS SHAKR
Football Coach
ABDERRAZZK BOUZIRI
Football Coach
AHMED ABDELMONEIM
Football Coach
BOUABDELLAH ZAIDI
Football Coach
NEMANJA SAVIC
Football Coach
YUNUS SHER MOHAMMAD
Asistant Coach
MARCO VAN GALEN
Technical Supervisor
EL-MORSY MOHAMED
Goalkeeper Coach
MISHA SALDEN
Head Coach
SERGIO FILIPE
Football Coach
Message from
the coaches
In order to develop our youth players, we need staff at the highest level. As learning never stops we have an internal Coach Education program, all staff members involved in the Youth Development process participate in this program. By providing a broad program around specific subjects we are convinced that we can influence the skills of our staff and will therefore improve the Youth Development Program we provide to our youth players.
Our Player PAthway
All our employees concerned by this matter follow the education program on the ‘’Laws of the game’’, anti-doping, integrity and anti-racism provided by the Football Association (FA)
- Scouting
- Foundation
- Youth Development
- Professional Development
- Sharjah 1
- Middle East
Final Aims Ages
In order to move towards the long, playing a 4:3:3 systems with all its variations, it is desirable for each age group to identify what the goals are. In this way the training and supervision of the respective youth selections arranged and we can go through evaluations, scrutinizing how the players are going.
YOUTH U.6 – U.8
Our main focus is on technical skills. They will be practiced every practice.
Technical training
- Accept/ take the ball with all body parts (allowed) this train speed and resistance
- Passes with inside of the foot – Bipedal and for small distances
- Passing with the instep – Bipedal and for small distances
- Develop and promote their own feints
- To learn passing techniques
- Screening of the ball, with and without resistance
- The throw
- The penalty
- The basic techniques of heads without resistance
YOUTH U.8 - U.10
Our main focus is on technical skills. They will be practiced every practice.
Technical training
- Accept / take the ball with all body parts (allowed) this train speed and resistance
- Passes with inside of the foot – Bipedal and for small distances
- Passing with the instep – Bipedal and for small distances
- Develop and promote their own feints
- To learn passing techniques
- Screening of the ball, with and without resistance
- The throw
- The penalty
- The basic techniques of heads without resistance
YOUTH U.10 - U.12
Our main focus is on technical skills. They will be practiced every practice.
Technical training
- Receiving /Carrying the ball with all body parts (allowed)
- This training with speed and resistance
- Passes with inside of the foot – Bipedal and for small distances
- Passing with the instep – Bipedal and for small distances
- Develop and promote their own feints
- To learn passing techniques
- Screening of the ball, with and without resistance
- The throw
- The penalty
- The basic techniques of heads without resistance
YOUTH U.12 - U.14
We still focus a lot on technical skills. They will be practiced every practice. We introduce players to our principles within style of play.
Technical training
- Accept / take the ball with all body parts allowed this training with speed and high resistance
- Passes with inside of the foot, fit with the instep -> bipedal and larger distances through the air
- Varied crosses
- Develop and promote their own feints
- Maintaining passing techniques, with and without resistance
- Shielding the ball
- The throw
- The penalty
- The technique of heads with resistance and in various real-game situations / timing
- In combination with jump
- Offensive and defensive headers
- 1-legged and 2-legged sales
YOUTH U.14 - U.16
All technical skills that are learned will still be practiced every practice. We have more focus on principles within style of play.
Technical training
- General Long age: – change rooms, smaller-larger
- Resistors
- Numbers up situation
- Accept / take the ball with all body parts (allowed) this train speed and high resistance
- Passes with inside of the foot – Bipedal and larger distances through the air
- Passing with the instep – Bipedal and larger distances through the air
- Varied crosses
- Develop and promote their own feints
- Maintaining pass techniques
- Shielding the ball
- The throw
- The penalty
- The technique of heads with resistance and in various real-game situations / timing
- In combination with jump
- Offensive and defensive headers
- 1-legged and 2-legged sales
YOUTH U.16 – U.18
All technical skills that are learned must now be improved, perfected, and / or maintained. We have focus on individual specialties. Training in the highest rate and perform under pressure from opponents.
Technical training
- General Long age: – change rooms, smaller-larger
- Resistors
- Numbers up situation
- Accept / take the ball with all body parts (allowed) this train speed and high resistance
- Passes with inside of the foot – Bipedal and larger distances through the air
- Passing with the instep Bipedal and larger distances through the air
- Varied crosses
- Develop and promote their own feints
- Maintaining pass techniques
- Shielding the ball
- The throw
- The penalty
- The technique of heads with resistance and in various real-game situations / timing
- In combination with jump
- Offensive and defensive headers
- 1-legged and 2-legged sales
Weekly & yearly schedules
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | SATURDAY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 120 min training | 120 min training | Free | 120 min training Unique Skills + Play Together | 90 min training Performance + Play Together | Free | Free |
| Cruyffy +unique skills | Performance +football condition +Cruyff | Unique skills + play together | Performance + play together | |||
| 45minTechnical- training | 30min performance | 45minTechnical- training | 30min performance | |||
| 75 min Team training | 90minTeam training | 75 min Team training | 60minTeam training |
| 23-8/ 30-8 | 30-8/ 05-9 | 06-9 /13-9 | 20-9/ 27-9 | 28-9/ 9-10 | 09-10 /11-10 | 18-10/ 25-10 | 01-11 / 08-11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players themselves get started with their development | Physical Tests u.14 & u.15 | Maximum ball control | 1-on -1 ability | Physical Tests u.13 | Maximum ball control | 1-on -1 ability | Players self- reflection moment |
| 10& 11-11 | 06-12/ 19-12 | 20-12/ 03-01 | 04-01/17-01 | 10-01/13-01 | 18-01/31-01 | 01-02/14-02 | 15-02/28-02 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nutrition u.13,u.14,u.15 | Principle of play : Think ,run ,play ,forward | Principle of play: Forward defending | Principle of play : Think ,run ,play ,forward | Performance Tests | Principle of play: Forward defending | Principle of play : Creating space | Principle of Play : Closing space |
Review & Feedback
Our performances and developments are measured by a methodological measurement system, this is divided in the following three parts
Teams
We use the ProSoccerData to measure the way we train, according to our philosophy, the team results and efforts during training sessions and/or games. The system leaves us with a detailed analysis of everything that happens on and of the field concerning the performances of our youth teams.
Club
Here we analyze the progress of our implemented processes, the current situation of the club in terms of structure, process, capacity, knowledge etc. in comparison with the European top.
We discuss the results of these analyzes in several of our meetings, bi-weekly management meeting, weekly technical meeting and our quarterly board meeting.
Players
As for our teams the ProSoccerData system not only allows us to identify what is happening at the collective level but also at the individual level, able to create a database of the performances of each player in training and during matches. We are also able to concentrate all the information necessary to obtain the best performance from each player (medical record, nutritional habits, physical and mental aptitudes etc.)
Collective and individual results are discussed with the involved bodies during the weekly technical meetings. If needed the coordinator, coach or staff member can have a discussion with a player or with a player and his parents
exercise analysis
Player’s performance
Within ProSoccerData, our measuring program and specific survey’s we can follow exactly what our players are doing and feeling; training program, training intensity, pain, hydration, sleep etc. (daily survey’s / weekly survey’s/ quarterly meetings)
Football
- Cruyff Quality
- Style Of Play
- Unique Skills
Team Results
| Teams | Participants | Play | Win | Lose | Equal | Scored Goals | Oponents Scores | Points | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.19 | 04 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 44 | 34 | 42 | 6th |
| U.17 | 04 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 44 | 34 | 42 | 8th |
| U.16 | 04 | 26 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 44 | 34 | 42 | 1st |
| Teams | Participants | Play | Win | Lose | Equal | Scored Goals | Oponents Scores | Points | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.16 | 04 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 44 | 34 | 42 | 1st |
| U.17 | 04 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 44 | 34 | 42 | 8th |
| Teams | Participants | Play | Win | Lose | Equal | Scored Goals | Oponents Scores | Points | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.18 | 04 | 23 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 44 | 34 | 42 | 7th |
| U.20 | 04 | 23 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 44 | 34 | 40 | 8th |
| Teams | Participants | Play | Win | Lose | Equal | Scored Goals | Oponents Scores | Points | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.14 | 04 | 23 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 44 | 34 | 44 | 1st |
| U.18 | 06 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 42 | 36 | 42 | 8th |
