As of November 1st, Niels van der Linden has started in the position of Managing Director JOHAN Sports. He succeeds Ralph van Baasbank, who left Demcon last summer. The post New managing director for JOHAN Sports appeared first on JOHAN Sports ..read more

Nicky Boonstra (27) is Performance coach at SC Cambuur. He started in the Youth Academy of SC Cambuur as a team coach and eventually made the switch to the physical part. In 2018 he started with the first selection. In the 2021-2022 season, SC Cambuur can play again in the Eredivisie after an absence of 5 years. Where the folk club from Leeuwarden belongs. A lot of points are now being taken and it looks like the yellow-blues will be active again next year at the highest level. Since this season, the JOHAN V6 system has been used. How was the transition from the Keuken Kampioen Division to the ..read more

It often happens that players are active in multiple teams. For example, within a youth academy, with the national team or a player who is just between the 1st team and the 2nd team. Training sessions are completed with one team and matches are played with the other team. This often means that player data from both teams have to be combined to get a complete overview of a player’s training load and match load. Previously this was done by means of the export function within the JOHAN system, but recently it is possible to make a player active in multiple teams and also to make the data of this ..read more

FCV Dender is a football club that is active at the highest amateur level in Belgium, with an ambition to grow towards 1B. Pieter de Bot has been a data analyst at FCV Dender for a few years now and is mainly responsible for monitoring the physical load of players using the JOHAN V6 LIVE GPS system. A few years ago, Pieter obtained his UEFA A diploma and was active in the youth department at FCV Dender. How exactly does FCV Dender use GPS technology? We spoke with Pieter de Bot about the challenges and different aspects of data and analysis. Since when has FCV Dender been working with JOHAN an ..read more

Mario Meijer (57 years old) is a caregiver/recovery trainer at Excelsior Rotterdam. With a wealth of experience and more than 26 years of loyal service, Mario is now a fixed value at the club. This is not strange in the football world, but it is always special. Mario: “I have been working for this club for more than 26 years now. Then you have experienced all the ups and downs. I’m part of the furniture by now, but you also have to move with the times. JOHAN is also part of that.” We were allowed to ask Mario a number of questions about the working method at Excelsior and the handling of GPS d ..read more

Following on from the previous blog post about the physical benchmark between the Keuken Kampioen Division and the Tweede Divisie amateurs, this time we will take a closer look at the positional differences between the two football competitions. At the time, the focus was mainly on the team average. This gives a global picture of the physical differences. Where the Keuken Kampioen Division teams scored slightly higher on average than the Second Division teams, it was noticeable that the high-intensity sprint meters (>25 km/h) were higher in the Second Division (top amateurs) compared to the ..read more

The Tweede Divisie is the highest amateur level in the Netherlands. In recent years it has been noticed that more and more amateur clubs have come relatively far in the KNVB Cup tournament. IJsselmeervogels reached the 1/8 final of the KNVB Cup in 2015, but was narrowly beaten 0-1 by SC Heerenveen. In 2017 Swift eliminated the pros of Vitesse on a football field in Amsterdam and in the same year the amateurs of AFC beat the white lions of Telstar with impressive figures (5-0). A year earlier (2016), football association Sint Bavo (better known as VVSB) even managed to beat FC Den Bosch 2-3 in ..read more

Investment in improving sports performance Nowadays, data makes all the difference in sports, including team sports. Increasingly more data is collected during training and matches using smart technical devices, such as the sensors developed by JOHAN Sports. The new JOHAN V5-sensor is a GPS tracking sensor with an integrated heart rate sensor that makes it possible for teams to monitor their players live. JOHAN Sports entered into a partnership with technology developer and producer Demcon for the development of the V5. This turned out to be such an excellent partnership that JOHAN Sports ..read more

In previous blogs, we have already discussed how the corona crisis has impacted team sports. Coaches and physical coaches were challenged to design the optimal training schedule for their players in these extraordinary times. Now that we are a few months into the new season, it is interesting to see how the physical performance of the players compares to their performance last year. Hence, in this blog, we will share data on the physical performance of players during last season and current season. 5 months without matches At the beginning of March, most clubs around Europe were forced to quit ..read more

Even though it is still common for amateur teams to play matches on a fixed day during the week, for professional teams we see more and more variation in the match schedules. Due to the coronavirus and commercial influences, we see that matches are not only played during the weekend (i.e. Fri-Sun), but they are spread over a broader period (i.e. Fri-Tue). This might lead to a team playing a match on Friday while the consecutive match is played on Tuesday the week thereafter (i.e. 10 days between matches). Or when a team plays on Tuesday, their next match might be planned on the next Friday (i ..read more