Resumen de Laliga sport projects international development

Hugo Blanco Pita, Juan Florit Zapata

• LaLiga Sport Projects Department was created in 2015 as one of the pillars taking part in the international development strategy of the Spanish football institution.

  Since then, the main goal has been to bring the knowledge gained throughout the years by the most talented Spanish Football League - LaLiga - professionals, to the world's countries and continents, encouraging and disseminating LaLiga’s values and image through the development of training and sport projects aimed at promoting the Spanish football culture and LaLiga’s methodology and know-how.

  The projects and actions that we develop, implemented and undertaken across the five continents, have a distinctively multi-disciplinary nature, which can be grouped into four main fields of intervention:

  1. Sport Advisory and Consultancy Services 2. Youth Football Development Programs 3. Training Actions 4. New Technologies Since its implementation, more than 400 Spanish coaches have worked in 180 different projects (from initiation and educative/recreational levels to high performance empowerment) executed in 35 different countries, training more than 9.500 coaches and an estimate of 120.000 young players.

  Considering the diverse and complex contexts and realities we need to face (different countries, cultures, targets, resources, goals, etc.), adaptation and empathy are key factors in the success of our projects.

  Finally, LaLiga Methodology basics and fundamentals stand out as our roadmap and “raison d’être”, and so, its implementation needs to be ensured by means of the establishment of solid and rigorous control and assessment processes and protocols every coach has to accomplish following LaLiga headquarters (Madrid) instructions.