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• “Playing style provides more sprint meters” at SC Cambuur

  Nicky Boonstra (27) is Performance coach at SC Cambuur. This season SC Cambuur works with the JOHAN V6 GPS and is 3rd in Europe in terms of sprint meters.

• NEW FEATURE: Player data sharing

  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 […]

• FCV Dender innovates with JOHAN V6 LIVE

  Pieter de Bot is a data analyst at FCV Dender and monitors the physical load of players using the JOHAN V6 LIVE GPS system

• ‘Getting fit and keeping them fit’ is the motto of Excelsior Rotterdam

  We were allowed to ask Mario a number of questions about the working method at Excelsior and the handling of GPS data from the JOHAN Sports GPS system.

• Position benchmark Keuken Kampioen Division – Second Division

  This position benchmark Keuken Kampioen Division – Second Division maps the differences of both competitions and parameters per position.

• Physical Benchmark: Keuken Kampioen Divisie & Tweede Divisie

  In this blog we describe a physical benchmark Keuken Kampioen Division and Second Division amateur teams based on GPS player data

• Demcon acquires JOHAN Sports

  JOHAN Sports entered into a partnership with technology developer and producer Demcon for the development of the V5 GPS Tracking technology

• The impact of COVID-19 on football players and match performance

  What is the impact of COVID-19 on football? It is interesting to see how the physical performance of the players compares to their performance last year

• Weekly periodization schedule: challenging match schedules

  The basic principles of a weekly periodization schedule. Examples on how to distribute training load over the week depending on the match schedule.