Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht

08/04/2013

Jean KINDERMANS – Technical Director Youth Academy

Club: Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht
 Records
 31 x champion
 9 x cup winner
 9 x supercup winner
 3 x European cup
 2 x European supercup

 Stability !!!
 3 chairmen after the
second world war
 2 general managers in the
last 25 years
 2 youth academy directors
over the last 18 years
Budgets in Belgium*: Budgets in Europa:
 RSCA: 35  Average top 20-club has a budget
between 105 and 210 milion euro !
 Club Brugge: 30
 Standard: 25
 Racing Genk: 22
180

 AA Gent: 17,5 160

140

 Bergen: 6 120
100
80
60
40

*: expressed in million euro 20

0
Top 20 Europa RSCA Bergen
 Herman Van Holsbeeck
Specifications:
General Manager / CEO  RSCA is located on
different sites:
Finance & Administration Sportive  Stadium
 Neerpede
Commercial Medical
 Academy

Merchandising Youth Department  Heizel

 FEFA (social)
Media Scouting
 Departement
managers
Infrastructure Social
 RSCA managed as a
company?
 Technical
Director Youth

Social Projects Sportive Scouting Administration Infrastructure Party committee

TCJO TCJO
School projects
U11-U19 U6-U10

Trainer staff Medical &

(sportive) paramedical

Delegates
(extra sportive)
1. To form players who are able to play First division and Champion’s League
(Europa League) at the age of 18-21 years.

2. To form players who are able to play professional soccer in Belgium or

abroad.

3. To form personalities who are proud to have worn the Anderlecht club colors
and who carry out the positive RSCA-image in a role as:
• Board member
• Youth trainer
• Delegate
• Employee
• Supporter
• Parent of a youth player
1. When talents are detected at a young age and youth staff makes sure that
these talents get a highly professional training (technical, tactical, mental),
the Anderlecht first team can always rely on young professional players.

2. A constant representation of young players in the first team who were

formed at least several years by the RSCA youth formation.
“Turn your passion into
your profession!”
“RSC Anderlecht has to profile as a highly
quality youth academy in order to act as
an example for youth formation and to act
as a relay station between national clubs
and international top clubs”

Quote Herman Van Holsbeeck

General Manager / CEO RSCA
1. Players (the better ones on each position)

2. Staff members (specialists on each position) & social affairs (balance sport –
school – family)

3. Formation & learning plan

4. Training facilities

5. Communication (interhuman relationships) & learning climat

1 common goal:
Getting youth players ready for the first team!
Club: Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht

Players
1. To detect and recrute talented players who are better on a specific position
then our current players playing in those positions.

2. Increase player quality in each age category.

3. Players need to:

• fit in our playing philosophy
• have a great progression margin
• have the potential to make it as a future first team player
• be able to offer result and amusement value in games
1. Foot & Fun (5 – 6 year)

2. Talent Days (6 – 10 year)

3. Stages (8 – 12 year)

4. Scouting

• U6 - U10: accent on Brussels

• U11 – U14: national

• U15: international + national

Club: Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht

Staff
Players

Social
U21:
Ex-professional players (PEETERS) + professional physical coach
(DEHAESELEER) + professional fysiotherapist (VOLLON)
3 FTE available for the most important youth team
Trainers wit a Uefa A degree or a Uefa Pro Licence Degree

U11U19:
Trainers with a Uefa A degree or a Uefa A Youth Elite Degree (New!)

U6U10
Trainers with a Uefa B degree
Trainers with a Bachelor or Master degree in physical education
Club: Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht

Formation plan
Staff
Players

Social
 Style of
playing

Learning National Playing

climat Youth system

Player
profile
 Attacking, creative and dominant football based on ‘efficient’ ball possession
(70%)

Forward offensive ballcirculation with accurate and high speed diagonal

passing by forming triangulars

Nice build up from behind through fast recovery of goalkeeper (mostly

truewards full backs or central defenders)

Playing on the half of the opponent as much as possible with a mix of

medium press (if too dominant) and fast collective ball recovery.

High speed of execution and dictating / influencing the pace of the game
(faster – slower)
 No tackling but focus on interception and anticipation

Never adapting to the strenght of the opponent

Players who dare to take initiative on every position

A fluent shift between defending and attacking and between attacking and
defending

Mutual coaching and skill of polyvalence

Always searching a ‘football solution’ : the way of playing exceeds the

importance of result

Freekicks and corners always kicked with QUALITY

“If your playing style is based on ball
possession you don’t need to defend
because there is only one ball”

Quote Johan CRUIJFF

U8-U9: 5 x 5
U10-U12: 8 x 8

goalkeeper
3 defenders on 1 line
rhombus on the midfield
2 wingers
1 central striker
 goalkeeper
4 defenders on 1 line
fluid triangle on the
midfield
2 wingers
1 central striker

U21  postformation
different tactical concepts
 Longer periods of faster ball possession

Faster, various tempo, intelligent (decision making), technically skilled

Multifunctional and multitasking player (player can play more than 1 position:

Rooney – Messi – van Persie – Schweinsteiger – Iniesta – Hazard – Dembele - Witsel …)

Continual growth of acurate passing

78% of passes in Premier League < 20m

Lesser ball touches, more movement without ball, more runs at optimal speed

More and more athletic (quick, agile, powerfull, …)

Decisions to be made on smaller spaces

Longer periods of faster ball possession

More passing and receiving plays “over the ground”

Efficiency and creativity in 1<>1 plays

Awareness of creating time and space for yourself or the team

“Systems are dying, it’s about the
movement of 10 players now!”

Quote Slavan BILIC

 Excellence in technical potential

Insight of the game – vista -

intelligence

Perfect first control in

movement and quick continuation of
the game

Bilateral passing (short – long),

shooting and dribbling (if possible)

Multipositional (before high peak

velocity – after HPV)
 Creative and innovative with great
sense of decision making

Eager to learn and ambitious to

progress continualy

Showing great desire and

confidence - sense of responsability
and initiative

Athletical (speed, agility, strenght,

endurance): not only a good player
but especialy a good ‘mover’
“Look, analyse and focus
on the potential of a youth
player instead of his actual
performance”
 Cueing:

to reach faster and more accurate passing via stronger visualization of the
passing and shooting structures

Gridding:

facilitating the use of space and visualizing the mutual positions and
distances

Fading

Movement – Angle – Timing

Cognitive Readiness:

exercices improving concentration – motivation - thinking – solving -

INITIATION (U5 - U8) 2 x 75’
PREFORMATION (U9 - U10) 3 x 75’ + 75’ multiskilling + 3 x 60’
FORMATION (U11 - U14) 4 x 90’ in school
FORMATION + (U15 - U19) 4 x 90’ projects
POSTFORMATION (U21) dailly
+integration in schedule first team

*:partnerships with 5 different schools: French and Dutch spoken

Body mastery Ball mastery

Playing ability
Basic technics

Game ability
Team tactics

Ability to perform
(efficiency  result)
Logical structure Timing

Cumulative forms Rhytm

Synchronisation Cumulative forms

Visualisation Exercises mostly starting in

movement
Many ball controls

Constant bilateral exercises

Repetition

Automatisation
Accent on FIRST control (in movement and offensive oriented)

Moving between the lines

Maximaal doordraaien via offensive ballcontrol

Doordekken (agressif press) to stimulate development of defensif skills

Evolution from 1 – 2 – 3 principle to 1 – 2 and 1 principle

Start the exercices as much as possible IN movement

…
 Kick-off meeting 6 weeks before the new season
1 week training camp on location at the start of the new season
Trainer meetings every 6 weeks (discuss goals and accents for the
forthcoming period).
Internal trainer clinics (demonstration training sessions given by technical
director, technical coordinator and own trainer staff).
Theme training sessions
Individual training sessions
Training sessions in different modules (school projects)
Technical director + coordinators ON and nearby the training pitch.
Talent + hard work + patience + luck +
ambition + continuity + working climat
+ enviromental influences
Club: Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht

Communication
Formation plan
Staff
Players

Social
Management- and communicationtool
Repporting (trainings, games, scouting sessions, …)
Statistical analysis
Communication with different club departments
Communication with parents (external stakeholders)
Club: Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht
Training facilities
Communication
Formation plan
Staff
Players

Social
5 grass pitches

(1 synthetical pitch )

( 1 indoor pitch)

1 power training hall (500m²)

+ RSCA Academy with 1 grass pitch, 1 synthetical pitch and

one indoorhall
Club: Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht
Accommodatie
Communicatie
YOUTH PLAYERS IN FIRST TEAM !!!
Opleidingsplan
Staff
Players

Social
RETURN ON INVESTMENT!!!
Vincent KOMPANY
Olivier DESCHACHT
Romelu LUKAKU
Anthony VAN DEN BORRE
Dennis PRAET
Massimo BRUNO
Denis ODOI
…
Vincent KOMPANY (Manchester City)
Romelu LUKAKU (West Bromwich Albion)
Cheik TIOTE (Newcastle United)
Roland LAMAH (Swansea City)
Franck MOUSSA (Coventry City)
Geoffrey MUJANGI BIA (Watford FC)

Dries MERTENS (PSV Eindhoven)

Sven KUMS (Heerenveen)
Maarten MARTENS (AZ Alkmaar)
Timothy DERIJCK (PSV Eindhoven)
Arnaud SUTCHUIN-DJOUM (Roda JC)
Samir UJKANI (Chievo)
Omar EL KADDOURI (Napoli)

Brandon DEVILLE (Ajaccio)

Kevin MAKILA-MUTOMBO (Stade Rennes)
Mike VANHAMEL (Stade Laval)

Jonathan LEGEAR (Terek Grozny)

Urko PARDO GOAS (Apoel Nicosia)
Goran LOVRE (Partizan Belgrado)
Vadis ODIDJA OFOE (Club Brugge) Gregory MERTENS (Cercle
Brugge)
Christophe LEPOINT (KAA Gent)
Julien VERCAUTEREN (SK Lierse)
Ernest N’FOR (KV Kortrijk)
Petit Pélé MBOYO (KAA Gent)
Arnor ANGELI (Mons)
Junior MALANDA (Zulte-Waregem)
Hervé KAGE (KAA Gent)
Michy BATCHUAYI (Standard)
Arnaud DEGREEF (VC Westerlo)
Sandy WALSH (KRC Genk)
Joeri DEQUEVY (STVV)
Anil KOC (Standard)
Gideon BOATENG (CS Visé)
…
Onur KAYA (Sporting Charleroi)
Jamaïque VANDAMME (KV
Oostende)
Evariste NGOLOK (OH Leuven)
René STERCKX (Waasland-Beveren)
Ziguy BADIBANGA (Sporting Charleroi)
Bryan VERBOOM (Zulte-Waregem)
Bruno GODEAU (Zulte-Waregem)

Nathan KABASELE (FC Torino)

Jonathan VERVOORT (FC Eindhoven)

Karim TARFI (De Graafschap)
Jordan GARCIA- CALVETE (De Graafschap)
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LUKAKU
West Bromwich
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MERTENS BRUNO
PSV Eindhoven RSC Anderlecht
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PRAET
RSC Anderlecht

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KUMS ODIDJA
Heerenveen Club Brugge

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