Hi all, my name's Victor Mañas.
Last season I worked for head coach
Unai Emery in PSG.
Now I'm looking for a new challenge.
When did you join Unai Emery?
We first met each other in Almeria.
That was his first season in the Spanish La Liga top league
I had previously worked for Lorca
and he had references about me.
Next season I could not go
with my head coach to Madrid,
so I stayed in Almeria.
UD Almeria offered me to work
as a physical trainer in their Academy
and at the same time, helping Unai with video analysis
as I already used some video editing software.
It was around year 2006-2007 or so.
During that season,
the physical trainer of the first team left
and I replaced him for a couple of weeks.
Then, another physical trainer –Edu Pons-
came but I stayed as performance analyst.
What is a video analyst for you?
It's basically a person who analyses the game.
I think in England this is really well structured
and they perfectly distinguish between
scouting and what's game analysis.
In my case, I analyse the game.
Not scouting.
Scouting is made by the director of football.
In fact, I think it would be a good idea
to standardise the terms.
How was video analysis in France?
France have a different philosophy .
regarding video analysis.
They have a vision on sports which could be define
as "causal" or "deterministic".
They really take performance analysts
into consideration but more as a data generator
than a football analyst.
Their workflows and processes are well structured,
and they have a deep knowledge
of video analysis solutions.
However, I think they
don't extract the same insights
as we do here in Spain.
How should the perfect performance analyst be?
In my opinion,
the performance analyst must be a coach
or someone who really knows the game.
Another trend I've seen lately
is that we are at risk of turning into technocrats.
We are evolving into being experts
in using technology rather than coaches,
and we should not forget that understanding
the game is the essence of video analysis.
How much information do you work with?
As a general rule, we work with 4-5 games.
For dead ball actions we increase this number to 10 games.
How is the coaching staff organised?
We consider ourselves like an analysis department
than a coaching staff.
Every member of the staff
has his own duties and analysis in different levels:
from head coach to assistant coaches Carcedo and Pablo Villa
the goalkeepers' coach (Javi García) and myself.
I breakdown games at first stage to provide
to the head coach, first assistant or goalkeepers' coach
with specific clips to work with.
We all work in the same way.
The second assistant coach Pablo Villa however
has his own workflow because he is responsible
for individual opposition.
Unai Emery analyses our team and
opponent from a collective approach.
He decides what, when and how players are presented the information.
First assistant Juan Carlos Carcedo works
on our team from an individual approach.
I am the one who makes first filter of all data gathered
Javi García uses the same workflows I provide
to analyse goalkeepers' performance
and also for our attacking players.
Is it beneficial that Unai uses the software?
Definitely.
Our workflows are horizontal.
We are not a department generating information
for a head coach.
We all work together.
As an analyst, being part of the coaching staff
is the ideal scenario,
at least in my point of view.
I am aware that in England
–which is probably the cradle of performance analysis-
they have another philosophy.
They are clear about how this must be done:
departments report to coaching staff
and they are then responsible to harness this information.
Working directly with the head coach is ideal for us.
Not only with him but also with other members of the coaching staff.
We generate synergetic processes
we would not have if we worked
as a department on our own.
How many templates do you use and what are they for?
I mainly have two:
one for post-analysis and
another one for real time analysis during games.
I prefer to work with a short number of Categories
and a great number of Descriptors.
By doing so,
I can have immediate access to the clips I'm looking for in the matrix.
When you see the templates,
they may seem to be really complex ones but they aren't.
I have not used your Panel Flows so far
but this is something I have in mind for next season
as I want to optimise screen area
working with a new smaller device
–a Surface notebook.
I really need to optimise my button template,
so your Panel Flows looks like an interesting solution.
My templates are constantly evolving.
Years ago,
when I moved from conventional video editing software
into a specific video analysis tool
I really appreciated that difference:
they allowed me to evolve.
When I was first trained in using the tools,
I was told things that I did not understand
as I just needed something easy or fixed at the time.
But when you get to know the software in depth,
you realise the tool's potential
it's the freedom to customise all your workflows.
I would recommend to all coaches
to dive into this world of video analysis.
Step by step,
the ideas will flow and your templates will evolve
until you get the insights you really need.
How do you use the presentations?
The presentation defines our workflows.
The whole coaching staff works with them
and it is the presentation what we share.
When I analyse a team
I send a presentation to the rest of the members
head coach, assistant coach and goalkeepers' coach
and they distinguish according to their specific needs.
They work from the structure of the presentation I've created
and we all work with the clips in different ways
depending on our needs.
I focus on the main clips from 4-5 last games
and this allows me to create a brochure
with all offensive dead ball actions of that team
and another brochure for defensive actions.
I also create a record of goals scored and conceded.
And from there
it's easy for my mates to have access to specific clips
they consider important
and they edit those clips and add drawings.
In fact, we never export videos
We rather present the conclusions from the software in a video session.
The ability to import PowerPoint slides,
pictures or external videos
also provides us with agility to improve the final result
of the presentation.
It's difficult to live
without the presentation.
It's the connecting element we all use
to improve our analysis workflows.
How do you present information to players?
Unai's structure to present his analysis is wide.
He usually presents clips from the own team to players
to reinforce concepts the day before a game.
On game days,
we present dead ball actions.
A couple of days before a game
the opposition is presented.
For each game, there are three sessions.
Sometimes, the calendar is so tight
that we don't have enough time
to make three video sessions
and we merge some of them.
Are top players receptive to video analysis?
When players understand how useful the video footage
to improve performance is,
are absolutely receptive to analysis.
But there is an important psychological point here:
your ability as a coach to avoid imposition
and work on the basis of conviction.
If you impose things you will not go far,
when you convince, you can reach further.
And that's what really important for your players.
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