Pen pics of Leicester City's coaching, science, medicine and analytics staff.
Pen pics of Leicester City's coaching, science, medicine and analytics staff.
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.
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.
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.
WILLY CABALLERO has joined Enzo Maresca’s staff at Leicester City and been described as a role model for other players looking to get into coaching.
LEICESTER CITY first-team coaches Mike Stowell and Adam Sadler have left the club after a combined 27 years’ service following the arrival of Enzo Maresca as Head Coach.
EDD WEBSTER has been appointed Lead Data Scientist at Leicester City after a year with LEGO.
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!
JOHN TERRY has been named as one of Dean Smith’s assistants at Leicester City alongside Craig Shakespeare, who has returned four and a half years after being sacked by the club.
MLADEN SORMAZ explains how he went about setting up Leicester City's data department and the key lessons he learned in doing so.
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.
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.
PAUL McGUINNESS has left his role as Leicester City’s Head of Player Development to help care for his father Wilf, who has dementia.
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.
MARK WALLER has left Rangers after four years to become Head of Medicine at Leicester City. The hugely experienced doctor replaces Bryan English, who left the club at the end of last season and joined Middlesbrough.
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.
MLADEN SORMAZ, Leicester City’s first Head of Football Analytics, has left the club after three years to join Miami-based private investment firm 777 Partners.
GUY BRANSTON has left his role as PDP Loans Manager at Leicester City to become an agent.
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.
OUR Youth Development event, which delivered insights from leading Academies, is now available on-demand.
CELTIC’S Oliver Morgan has been appointed to the new role of Head of Academy Performance Support by Leicester City.
FORMER Manchester United Under-18s coach Paul McGuinness has been appointed Head of Academy Player Development at Leicester City.
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.
HEAD of Performance Innovation Paul Balsom will end his 13-year association with Leicester City and owners King Power when his contract expires at the end of the month.
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.
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.
LEICESTER CITY will train at their new £95m training ground in Seagrave for the the first time on Christmas Eve.
OUR Big Data event, which examines how top teams are using data science, is back for a second year.
LEICESTER CITY manager Brendan Rodgers has spoken for the first time about the sacking of Head Physio Dave Rennie after more than 20 years, which was first revealed by TGG last month.
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.
LEICESTER CITY Head Physio Dave Rennie has been sacked by the club after more than 20 years in post.
ENGLAND rugby coach Eddie Jones will be among the speakers at an online event exploring the future of elite sport post pandemic and beyond.
LEICESTER CITY Under-18 coach Trevor Peake, who is retiring after 17 years at the club, looks back on his four decades in professional football.
TGG will be exploring Modern Leadership at our next live event, at Emirates Old Trafford on Thursday April 23rd.
LEICESTER CITY manager Brendan Rodgers says his late father inadvertently taught him the importance of displaying a “calmness” on the touchline.
MLADEN SORMAZ, Leicester City's Head of Football Analytics, explains how teams can avoid becoming overloaded with information.
MLADEN SORMAZ, Head of Football Analytics at Leicester City; Luke Benstead, Head of Performance Analysis and Innovation for Belgium, and Ed Sulley, Director of Customer Solutions for Hudl, discuss the current state of data science in football and where it could be headed.
PAUL BALSOM says Leicester City have a motto of “lift heavy to get strong”, which puts them at odds with a lot of other clubs.
PAUL BALSOM, Leicester City’s highly-experienced Head of Performance Innovation, says a rare alchemy has taken the side to heady heights in the Premier League this season.
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.
MLADEN SORMAZ has been appointed as Leicester City’s first Head of Football Analytics.
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.
BRENDAN RODGERS has taken Glen Driscoll, Chris Davies and Kolo Toure with him from Celtic to form part of the backroom staff at Leicester City.
ADAM SADLER, who was Leicester City’s tactical analyst just eight months ago, has been put in temporary charge of first-team affairs at the club along with goalkeeper coach Mike Stowell.
LEICESTER CITY have appointed Guy Branston as loans manager with specific responsibility for the Professional Development Phase group.
PREMIER LEAGUE footballers Tom Heaton and Ben Mee were among the attendees at TGG's second Cohesive Coaching event in Manchester.
LEICESTER CITY have secured planning permission for what they hope will become “the best training centre in Europe”.
FOLLOWING the success of our first Cohesive Coaching event in June, we decided to put on a sequel.
LEICESTER CITY have promoted tactical analyst Adam Sadler to first-team coach as part of a restructure that has seen assistant Michael Appleton leave the club.
LEICESTER CITY have announced plans for a new £80m training centre “to rival the very best in the UK”.
HEAD OF S&C Tom Williams tells us why he swapped Leicester City for a job in the MLS with Toronto FC.
EVERY year hundreds of (mainly unpaid) interns are taken on by professional clubs. Kevin Paxton, Head of Academy Sports Science at Leicester City, says it's time to ensure they're given a fair deal.
WEST BROM won the Premier League fitness title in 2016/17, with the lowest number of significant injuries and days lost to injury.
CLAUDIO RANIERI says he has not been approached by Leeds United about their vacant manager's job.