Real Madrid

"I think it's important for the kids in the academy to fully experience sport," says Valter di Salvo, "We want all the players in the youth system to fully realise their potential and work like professional players."

"We will work with players that range from 13 years of age to those on the first team. Each age group has different demands. Younger players should strengthen their muscles. We don't want the kids to do the same work the first team does; depending on his characteristics -such as age, height and weight-, each player needs a completely different training scheme.That's why are going to try to come up with individual programs; some children may have developed anthropometrically before others."

"Several studies throughout Europe have revealed that there are important differences amongst players depending on the position they have on the pitch. For example, centre backs do a different job than full backs. The former cover a smaller portion of the pitch, while the latter constantly run up and down their wings."

"Our goal is to register parameters of strength, speed, resistance and anthropometric measurements in order to tell the coaching staff in charge of the player to come up with specific workouts for him. We will monitor these and their results for two months. In order to be properly evaluated, a player must go through Realmadrid TEC-Sanitas several times."