Pen pics of West Ham's coaching, performance and analytics staff.
Pen pics of West Ham's coaching, performance and analytics staff.
New West Ham Head Coach Julen Lopetegui is bringing five staff with him to the London Stadium. The former Spain, Porto, Real Madrid, Sevilla and Wolves boss was announced as the successor to David Moyes today (May 23rd) and will officially begin work July 1st.
Eight staff have departed West Ham with David Moyes ahead of Julen Lopetegui's appointment as the club’s new Head Coach.
Teamworks will be the Headline Sponsor of this year's TGG Live Conference at St George's Park. Our annual two-day event is returning on September 9 & 10 to shine a light on the best of the backroom in football and beyond.
IN our Set Piece Masterclass, former Newcastle United First Team Analyst Billy Coulston will help to improve your understanding, preparation and delivery of Set Pieces.
MAX HAHN has joined West Ham United as their new Head of Technical Recruitment and Analysis, as Technical Director Tim Steidten makes his mark behind the scenes.
R is a statistics-specific programming language that is excellent for data cleaning, manipulation and visualisations. In our R Masterclass, on Tuesday February 13th, Harsh Krishna will introduce you to R and RStudio (the interface for writing R code) and explain how they can be used with football event data.
ChatGPT and other Large Language models are changing how we write and read texts. In this Masterclass, Professor David Sumpter explains how to make the most of the new technology when writing scouting reports.
OUR Big Data Webinar is now available on-demand and brings you insights from leading practitioners in football and beyond.
STAFF from more than 100 clubs and federations from around the world - in football and beyond - were among those to gather in Manchester last week for two days of learning and networking at TGG Live.
TEAM Operations and Communications specialists Kairos will showcase their new product Kairos TV at TGG Live in Manchester on October 9th and 10th.
STAFF from dozens of leading clubs and federations will be attending TGG Live in Manchester on October 9th and 10th. This event, which is being held in the iconic Beetham Tower, will offer unparalleled opportunities to learn and network with some of the brightest minds in football and beyond.
FORMER Holland international John Heitinga has been appointed as an assistant at West Ham as manager David Moyes named his new-look backroom staff for 2023/24.
MARK ROBSON has been appointed first-team coach at West Ham after turning down the chance to become one of Gary O’Neil’s assistants at Wolves.
WE are delighted to reveal the agenda for our industry-leading TGG Live Conference in Manchester on October 9th and 10th. This two-day event at the iconic Beetham Tower in central Manchester will shine a light on the best of the backroom.
WEST HAM have hired Tim Steidten from Bayer Leverkusen to become their Technical Director. The 44-year-old will be responsible for an “overarching player recruitment and scouting strategy”, the club said.
CLUB and Federation experts will give insights into latest trends and best practice at our Youth Development Webinar on June 6th.
ON October 9&10, Training Ground Guru is holding its biggest and best event, with its biggest and best line-up of speakers!
IN October we'll be holding our biggest ever event. The TGG Live Conference, at the iconic Beetham Tower in central Manchester, spans two days and will be a window into the world of high performance in professional football, featuring dozens of expert speakers from leading clubs and federations.
KENNY BROWN has been appointed permanent Academy Manager at West Ham, having held the job on an interim basis following the departure of Ricky Martin in November.
OUR Scouting and Recruitment Webinar is back for a second edition and again provides industry insights from leading experts in the game.
LEARN how xG - the most important machine learning model in football - works during our follow-along Masterclass with Professor David Sumpter on Tuesday January 24th.
TGG's Big Data event is back for its fourth edition and will once again give top insights into how leading football clubs and federations are using data science.
EDD WEBSTER is a data scientist for LEGO who previously worked for Manchester City and West Ham. On October 25th, he will be hosting an SQL Masterclass for TGG. Here is some background on SQL and what the Masterclass will involve.
COACHES from the four home nations as well as from Belgium, Holland, Germany, Portugal and the United States came together at TGG’s Youth Development Conference for a day of learning and sharing ideas.
WEST HAM legend Mark Noble has been appointed as the club's new Sporting Director. The 35-year old will officially start on January 2nd and work “closely in support of David Moyes, as well as working with the Board of Directors, providing input, advice, and assistance across all aspects of the football operation.”
DATA is valuable and SQL makes navigating it a lot easier. Our SQL for Data Analysis Masterclass will provide an introduction to accessing and manipulating datasets in a football context.
FORMER QPR boss Mark Warburton has been appointed as the new assistant manager of West Ham. The 59-year-old replaces Stuart Pearce, who announced he was leaving to pursue his own managerial ambitions at the end of last season.
ON September 20th, TGG will be holding its first in-person event for three years. The Youth Development Conference will feature top speakers giving insights into the latest innovations and best practice in Academies - from both England and beyond.
STUART PEARCE has stepped down from his role as West Ham's first-team coach after two years.
HOW do you ensure each individual develops within your team environment? This is a big focus for clubs - and for this webinar.
OUR Python Match Analysis Masterclass is a follow-along interactive session that takes you through the match analysis process, from processing a real match JSON file through to data visualisation and communication.
Our Power BI Masterclass, delivered by Southampton FC Performance Data Analyst Harriet Eastham, helps you to connect multiple data sources to generate interactive insights.
OUR Scouting and Recruitment webinar features insights from leading clubs and professionals.
FORMER West Ham midfielder Kenny Brown has returned to the club as Head of Coaching for the Under-9s to 14s.
OUR Youth Development event, which delivered insights from leading Academies, is now available on-demand.
FORMER West Ham midfielder Mark Robson is returning to the club as Senior Professional Development Coach and Under-23s Lead. He replaces Dmitri Halajko, who is leaving after two-and-a-half years to become Coaching Manager at the Premier League.
TGG's Big Data 2021 Webinar, shedding light on how top individuals and organisations are using data science in football, is now available on-demand.
OUR Python Masterclass, which gives an introduction to the football capabilities of one of the world's most popular programming languages, is now available on-demand.
OUR Individual Development Coaching Webinar, which gave in-depth insights into the approach of top clubs and federations in this crucial area of the game, is now available to watch on-demand.
DAVID MOYES has beefed up his backroom team at West Ham with the return of two former assistants.
WEST HAM manager David Moyes says his side’s renaissance has been built on becoming more “robust and energetic” - and that the next stage of their development will be to follow a “Red Bull model” of recruitment.
RECOVERY is more important now than ever, because unprecedented fixture congestion is leaving so little time between matches. In this event, expert practitioners from elite clubs will be telling you how they monitor recovery and about the methods and tools they use to promote it.
A PLAYER'S position only tells us so much about them - as a comparison of Roberto Firmino and Robert Lewandowski shows. Paul Power of Stats Perform explains how we can carry out some more sophisticated analysis of a player.
FORMER West Ham Head of Player Care Hugo Scheckter explains why the role has evolved from being "a person who sits in an office at the training ground to the manager’s key non-footballing contact.”
TELESTRATION elevates the storytelling power of video, which is why TGG have teamed up with Tracab to bring you a Coach Paint Masterclass delivered by Benfica U23 assistant manager João Nuno Fonseca.
OUR Big Data event, which examines how top teams are using data science, is back for a second year.
WEST HAM'S Paul Nevin says just nine of the 240 managers in Premier League history have been black, representing a 'complete under-representation'. Having more role models is part of the solution, he argues.
ENGLAND rugby coach Eddie Jones and England Women’s goalkeeper Karen Bardsley were among the superb speakers at TGG’s The Future Game webinar on Wednesday.
WEST HAM owners David Sullivan and David Gold have allowed manager David Moyes to bring back Stuart Pearce as his assistant - eight months after blocking the appointment.
ENGLAND rugby coach Eddie Jones will be among the speakers at an online event exploring the future of elite sport post pandemic and beyond.
FORMER West Ham captain Kevin Nolan and ex-Brighton assistant Paul Nevin have been appointed as first-team coaches by the Hammers.
TGG will be exploring Modern Leadership at our next live event, at Emirates Old Trafford on Thursday April 23rd.
DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL Mario Husillos has left West Ham following the sacking of manager Manuel Pellegrini yesterday.
JEREMY SAUER is taking up the new role of Assistant Academy Manager at West Ham next week after 12 years at AFC Wimbledon.
DATA SCIENCE is the growth area in football, yet also one of the least understood. At this special event, we will be finding out what the top Premier League and international teams are doing, from the experts who are doing it.
DMITRI HALAJKO is leaving Leicester City to become Under-23s coach at West Ham as part of a major overhaul at the Hammers Academy.
KRIS VAN DER HAEGEN, the Director of Coach Education for the Belgian Football Association, will head a special TGG conference on youth development in June.
WEST HAM Academy Manager Terry Westley has moved into a part-time role at the club that will focus on football development programmes.
RICKY MARTIN, the former Norwich City Technical Director, has been appointed as West Ham’s Academy Operations and Player Development Manager.
PREMIER LEAGUE footballers Tom Heaton and Ben Mee were among the attendees at TGG's second Cohesive Coaching event in Manchester.
WEST HAM have suspended Under-18 coach Mark Phillips after he tweeted about attending a march organised by the Democratic Football Lads Alliance.
FOLLOWING the success of our first Cohesive Coaching event in June, we decided to put on a sequel.
WEST HAM have appointed Mario Husillos as their new Director of Football - a decision that seems to have been heavily influenced by manager Manuel Pellegrini.
RICHARD COLLINGE, who is pursuing a discrimination case against Watford, has been appointed Head of Medical by West Ham.
WEST HAM Head of Medical Gary Lewin has left the club after less than a year in post.
HEAD of Fitness Nick Davies has left West Ham, less than six months after being appointed.
NICK DAVIES has been confirmed as West Ham’s new Head of Fitness, as reported by TGG on December 3rd.
NICK DAVIES, the former Norwich Head of Sports Science, is returning to West Ham to work under David Moyes.
WEST HAM manager David Moyes says he hopes to appoint a new fitness coach ‘within the next few weeks’.
JACK COLLISON has returned to West Ham United as an Academy coach - three years after leaving the club as a player.
WEST HAM's Joe Hart has the worst distribution performance of any goalkeeper in the Premier League this season, according to exclusive analysis conducted by the World in Motion agency.
GARY LEWIN, one of football’s best-known physios, has joined West Ham as their new head of medical services.
WEST BROM won the Premier League fitness title in 2016/17, with the lowest number of significant injuries and days lost to injury.
DEFENDER Declan Rice became the first teenager to feature for West Ham this season on the final day of their campaign - just 24 hours after co-owner David Gold had declared it would be “extremely unlikely” that a teenager would be able to break into the side.