Pen pics of Crystal Palace's coaching, science, medicine and analytics staff.
Pen pics of Crystal Palace's coaching, science, medicine and analytics staff.
CRYSTAL PALACE have been promoted to Category One status and are now focused on becoming “one of the country’s leading Academies” to “capitalise on the hotbed of footballing talent in south London”.
THE six clubs bidding to move up an Academy category are set to discover their fates within the next few weeks.
DAVID WEBB shares lessons from two decades in recruitment - including the story of how he discovered Wilfred Zaha for Crystal Palace.
PREMIER LEAGUE teams embarked on phase one of Project Restart today - training in small groups with social distancing and no tackling. Here's the lowdown on what that involved.
HOW are clubs managing to train and monitor their players during the coronavirus shutdown? George Perry asked Crystal Palace's Scott Guyett, Bristol City's Patrick Orme and Callum Lester of Grimsby Town.
CRYSTAL PALACE’S plans to develop their Academy into a Category 1 site have been supported by Bromley Council’s planning committee.
The Football Association has decided not to bring charges against former Crystal Palace Head of Coaching David Muir, who resigned in March following allegations he made a racial comment while on a Premier League course last year.
RICHARD SHAW has left his role as Crystal Palace Under-23 boss to “pursue other opportunities”.
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS firm Hudl has bought scouting platform Wyscout, creating “the most comprehensive football video analysis, data and recruitment platform in the industry”.
PROFESSOR BARRY DRUST says clubs and practitioners need to think more carefully about the impact that their numerous sports science interventions are having on players.
CRYSTAL PALACE Head of Sports Science Scott Guyett gives an insight into pre-season, new Manchester United signing Aaron Wan-Bissaka, working with Roy Hodgson and his studies on the Master of Sport Directorship course at Manchester Metropolitan University.
WHEN players report back to their clubs for pre-season, body fat testing will reveal whether they have stuck to their diet and training plans over the summer or not. DEXA is regarded as the 'gold standard' of fat testing.
CRYSTAL PALACE confirm that Head of Coaching David Muir has resigned following allegations he made a racial comment while on a Football Association coaching course in February.
DAVE REDDINGTON has been promoted to first-team coach as Crystal Palace make a number of changes to their backroom set-up.
STEVEN REID has stepped down as first-team coach at Crystal Palace after just a year because of “personal reasons”.
BRAZILIAN performance coach Alessandro Schoenmaker has left Crystal Palace following a backroom reshuffle by the south east London club.
CRYSTAL PALACE Head Physio Chris Morgan has left the club after 16 months to pursue a “new challenge in the North”.
ROY HODGSON paid tribute to his medical and sport science teams after Crystal Palace secured their Premier League safety.
STEVEN REID says his connection with the players will be crucial as he takes up his new job as first-team coach at Crystal Palace.
SAMMY LEE, Ryland Morgans and Orlando Trustfull have left Crystal Palace following the arrival of Roy Hodgson as manager.
FOOTBALL clubs need to start using fair, transparent recruitment processes instead of relying on existing social relationships, argue Dr Dan Parnell and Dr Paul Widdop.
SAM ALLARDYCE says struggling teams like Crystal Palace do not spend enough time practising how to play without the ball.
CRYSTAL PALACE manager Frank de Boer has welcomed the appointment of Dougie Freedman as the club's Sporting Director.
WEST BROM won the Premier League fitness title in 2016/17, with the lowest number of significant injuries and days lost to injury.
ALAN PARDEW says sports science and medical staff have become ‘too protective’ and that this contributed to his sacking at Crystal Palace.
SAM ALLAYDYCE is sending his Crystal Palace players homework using an app called Pushfor - and it also allows him to track whether they’ve done it or not.