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SPARQ Info For Clubs
SPARQ Info For Clubs
ATHLETES
MAKE BETTER
FOOTBALLERS
SPARQ is the performance training platform for Nike. SPARQ Testing is the entry point into a
football experience that is designed to help players develop their physical abilities and improve
their games.
With an objective assessment profile in hand, coaches and players can identify effective
fitness programmes focused on overcoming weaknesses in the individual profile, while
nurturing strengths. Objective data also provide a basis for comparison.
Individual results are important, but the power of the data is revealed in the numbers of
players tested across the sport of football and around the world. Our intent is to make testing
accessible to every footballer and the resulting data a tool for comparison, coaching and the
foundation for physical training programmes that change the way kids prepare to compete.
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athletes & coaches
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FOOTBALL
AMERICAN FOOTBALL
BASKETBALL
BASEBALL
FASTPITCH
HOCKEY
SPARQ FOOTBALL
To allow for greater diagnostic and prescriptive power, individual test results are transformed into a standardised index of football-specific athleticism via a proprietary statistical
method. This summary index is the SPARQ Football Rating.
since 2004
over 300,000 athletes
have been tested.
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objectives
1. Identify the key physical demands of football
2. Identify a battery of field tests which is
a. Accessible to individual players and teams
b. Suitable for boys and girls spanning a wide range of playing abilities
c. Practical for administering to large groups
d. Supported by published research and prevailing field testing practices
contributors
1. Jens Bangsbo Juventus, AEK Athens, Danish National Team
2. Ivan Carminati Inter Milan
3. Don Kirkendall FIFA
4. Luc van Agt PSV, Dutch National Team
5. GianPiero Ventrone Juventus
6. Paul Winsper Newcastle United, Toronto FC
Testing and the SPARQ Rating provide a competitive element to training and are useful
motivational tools for encouraging players toward improving their physical abilities.
The Rating is also useful in tracking the effectiveness of training, providing an answer
to the questions: AM I GETTING BETTER? AND IF SO, BY HOW MUCH?
Objectives
1. Establish the connection between physical abilities and on-pitch performance in the
minds of youth footballers and their coaches
2. Establish SPARQ as the physical assessment STANDARD, providing footballers and
their coaches from around the UK with the tools and resources to improve and
compare performance
a. Partner with County FAs to adopt SPARQ Testing
TO BOOK YOUR SPARQ TEST SESSION, CONTACT RALPH NEWBROOK ON 07900 211 420 OR [email protected]