SOCCER NUTRITION COURSE

8th edition

March 20th, 2025

11
THEORETICAL CLASSES

16h
DURATION

ONLINE
FORMAT

SOCCER NUTRITION COURSE

“Let’s go people, all together – This is football – Stop the crap – Strength in your legs and the biggest to win is Portugal”* – but how to give strength to your legs? In answering this very complex question we find nutrition playing a key role more than ever. If we meet the requirements and the evolution of the game, we realize that the advantage conferred by precise, periodized and personalized nutritional strategies is precious in obtaining the maximum performance of the athlete.

Football is a sport whose physical demands are enormous. Facts:

Distance covered per game and per player – 9 to 14 km
Running speed varies between 1.4 and 10 m s-1
Only 1 to 12% of the distance covered is sprinted
Players utilize all sources involved in ATP resynthesis
+ 90% of energy comes from aerobic processes
Games can be separated by just over 48 hours

Nutritional planning and in-depth knowledge of bioenergetics are crucial to meet the needs of footballers and clubs. Food and nutrition have a significant impact on health and performance. Likewise, the Football Nutrition Advanced Course brings together a team of teachers with advanced knowledge and skills in the topics to be developed and with the ability to attack and defend the premises to be discussed, based on facts and professional practice in high performance football teams. This course represents an opportunity to advance and extend good practices in nutrition sciences through professional and amateur football, male and female, from younger players to adults and with different diets.

Among others, this course aims to develop knowledge, skills and performance in nutritional monitoring at the level of:

Daily nutritional and food routines
Body composition assessment and management
Game day nutritional planning
Biological, cultural and other contexts
Recovery
Supplementation.

Classes will be periodized, constituting, per say, as theoretical-practical opportunities to consolidate and develop skills in the exercise of food and nutritional monitoring in football.

Welcome to Academia Clínicas Espregueira!

OBJECTIVES

  To characterize and to know the physical and physiological demands of the current soccer in different competitive levels;
  Develop knowledge about methods, techniques and technologies for assessing body composition;
  Calculate the energy needs of footballers according to their biological identity, level, training and competition schedule;
  Learning to prescribe food plans and to develop strategies favorable to the adherence and compliance of football players;
  Learn to develop and implement dietary strategies that project nutritional needs according to the footballer’s context, the phase of the season and the time of week;
  Identify the supplementation needs of football players, prescribing with knowledge of safety, efficacy and suitability;
  Develop knowledge in the field of health, performance and legislation on supplements and doping, contributing to ethical, legal and professional responsibility awareness;
  Identify football players’ special needs and contingencies depending on diet, cultural, biological or other factors.

Description

Description

BY ATTENDING THIS COURSE, YOU WILL BE BETTER BECAUSE:

You will develop knowledge, skills and performance in nutritional monitoring at the level of:

Daily nutritional and food routines
Body composition assessment and management
Game day nutritional planning
Biological, cultural and other contexts
Supplementation Recovery

PROGRAM

20 MARCH 2025

8:00pm | 9:00pm Ricardo Cotovio

Role of the nutritionist in football: how close is my football experience to the ideal?

27 MARCH 2025

8:00pm | 9:00pm César Leão

Characterization of soccer physiology in the context of nutrition

9:00pm | 10:00pm César Leão

Body composition: Assessment, reference values and implications for the health and performance of adult footballers

3 APRIL 2025

8:00pm | 9:00pm Tânia Tinoco

The development of young footballers: how to assess, interpret and fit the results into growth and maturational status

10 APRIL 2025

8:00pm | 10:00pm Carlos Ferrando

The day before, the day of the match, the day after: dietary strategies adapted to the nutritional needs of footballers

17 APRIL 2025

8:00pm | 9:00pm Ricardo Cotovio

The injured athlete: nutritional strategies for recovery

9:00pm | 10:00pm Luis Patricio

The Islamic athlete: challenges and solutions for nutritional monitoring

24 APRIL 2025

8:00pm | 10:00pm

Women’s football: the game is the same, but are the nutritional needs also the same?

8 MAY 2025

8:00pm | 10:00pm Ana Goios

The vegetarian football player: is “green” energy enough to yield?

15 MAY 2025

8:00pm | 10:00pm Maria Roriz

Educating for the future or nurturing for the present: education vs. performance

22 MAY 2025

8:00pm | 9:00pm CÉSAR LEÃO

The vegetarian football player: is “green” energy enough to yield?

9:00pm | 10:00pm

Doping: health, performance and legislation

Faculty

Ana Goios

Carlos Ferrando

César Leão

Luís Patrício

Lecturer

Maria Roriz

Ricardo Cotovio

Tânia Tinoco

FAQ's

Starts on March 20, 2025.

Registration fees:
1st price until 20/01/2025 - 190€
2nd price until 20/02/2025 - 230€
3rd price after 20/02/2025 - 290€

Phased payment 2x without interest:
70% - Upon registration
30% - After 30 days

Recorded lessons, made available after live broadcast (exclusively online or on television), will no longer be accessible 31 days after the last live broadcast session of the course.

Nutritionists, doctors, football coaches, physical trainers and other health and sports science professionals.

The final classification in the course will result from the quantitative classification obtained by the final exam. The assessment comprises the answers to a 20-question multiple-choice exam. Each correct answer contributes 1 point to the final classification. The exam will be held at the end of the course.
The final evaluation of each course is expressed through a classification on a numerical scale from 0 to 20 points, with approval being considered as obtaining a minimum of 10 points.

The final classification of the course can be accompanied by a qualitative mention, expressed on the following scale: Sufficient (10 to 13), Good (14 and 15), Very Good (16 and 17) and Excellent (18 to 20).

According to the Portuguese legislation (DL 42/2005 of 22 February), grades below 10, on a scale from 0 to 20, imply failure.
At the end of the course, an evaluation instrument will be applied to measure the participants’ satisfaction with the training process and the conditions for carrying out the course, aiming at possible improvement actions.

At the end of the course, a Professional Training Certificate will be issued, in accordance with current legislation (Ordinance No. 474/2010 of 8 July), to all participants who successfully complete the vocational training. This certificate, as well as a diploma, will be made available in digital format in the participant’s area, on the EMSaúde website, within a maximum period of 30 working days, after the end date of the course. If the student does not succeed, a Certificate of Attendance in Vocational Training will be issued.

190,00 €

Registration fees:

1st price until 20/01/2025 - 190€
2nd price until 20/02/2025 - 230€
3rd price after 20/02/2025 - 290€

WHAT DOES THIS COURSE INCLUDE?

  16h training - 100% Online, live
  Recorded lessons, made available after live broadcast (exclusively online or on television), will no longer be accessible 31 days after the last live session broadcast of the course
  Vocational Training Certificate* or Vocational Training Attendance Certificate
  * In addition, the right to the Diploma issued by a FIFA, ISAKOS, ESSKA and ICRS accredited centre.

190,00 €

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