Aspire Academy Global Summit focuses on sports training and coaching methodology

December 5, 2021

The virtual 7th Aspire Academy Global Summit 2021 held recently under the theme: 'Aspire Fellows Meet Other Sports', spotlighted the crucial role of a sports coach or manager with the summit delving into the training and coaching methodology in basketball, volleyball and athletics.

Speaking at the Summit, former Arsenal FC manager and current Chief of Global Development at FIFA, Arsene Wenger said that the role of a coach or manager is very crucial not just in football but in other sports as well.

Wenger advised "first of all I welcome very much the idea of Aspire Fellows Meet Other Sports, for I think that there are many points that are transferable from one sport to the other, and what we all have in common in our jobs is that we influence people's life in a positive way.

"The manager is an observer who can detect the strong points in a newcomer who may not be aware of his or her qualities. Here, the observation quality is very important for a coach.

"It's important for a manager to know the psychological mind of a young player. A good mixture of intelligence and motivation is important to shape their careers.”

The summit was opened with a speech by Valter Di Salvo, Director of Football Performance and Science at Aspire Academy.

"In terms of knowledge sharing, it's an innovative summit. We wanted to cross-over to other sports and understand their approach to training so that we can learn from them," said Di Salvo, who is also the Executive Director of Aspire in the World Fellows Program and Aspire Academy Global Summit.”

Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy brand ambassador Tim Cahill, who moderated one of the segments at the Summit, opined that it was important to share the knowledge.

Cahill, who represented Australia at the four FIFA World Cups from 2006 to 2018, noted “I’ve played in England, USA, China and India. It’s important to know how you can manage competitions besides we need to share information and broaden our horizon.”

"I joined coaching with a different mindset as if I was starting from the scratch," said US women's volleyball team coach Karch Kiraly, who guided USA to their first-ever gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in July-August this year.

Retired American decathlete and two-time Olympic champion, Ashton Eaton, former British Athletics head of endurance Barry Fudge, basketball expert Lorena Torres and former Argentine basketball star Luis Scola were the other speakers, who added much insight from their respective careers during the three discussion panels.

Image: Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy brand ambassador Tim Cahill

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