Dr. Paul Bradley is a world-leading authority on match analysis. He is the author of the unique book ‘Football Decoded’, which was released on Amazon in 2020 and recorded a three-tier educational course on www.FootballAnalyticsHQ.com in 2021. He is currently a football science consultant for elite teams, national governing bodies, and technology companies. He typically conducts translational work within an elite football setting that bridges the gap between cutting-edge research and professional practice (e.g., not just research for research's sake but work that adds value to the applied setting). One area he pioneered is the contextualisation of match and training data, and he is currently working with many elite organisations in this regard. He has more than 15 years of experience in the football science area and has published more than 90 papers and has over 6000 citations in the science and football area.

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David has over 20 years of experience in sports, having worked in football, golf, cycling, and tennis, among others. His working life has also included time in the IT and communications sector and also in the higher education space. He's a vastly experienced operator possessing multiple skillsets with an academic background and peer-reviewed publications in the field of psychology, elite sports performance, and serial winning.

Andrea Riboli is a physical performance coach, applied sport scientist, and consultant experienced with both youth and adult elite football players. He holds a PhD in sport sciences and he is an adjunct professor in performance analysis at the University of Milan. After gaining experience as an exercise physiologist at different levels of competition and the position of head of performance in professional women’ basketball, he got experience as a physical performance coach in Como FC, AC Milan, and Atalanta BC academies. From 2014-20, he held the position of first team physical performance coach at Atalanta BC, where he was in charge of the sport science department of the club. He published papers in sport science and medicine peer-review international journals and he is currently leading research and consulting projects about high-performance development in elite football players.

Jurrit Sanders currently works as Lead Academy Sport Scientist at PSV Eindhoven, where he started his career in 2015 after several internships in elite sports and gaining his master's degree in Human Movement Sciences at the VU University in Amsterdam. His main aim is to support the technical, medical, performance, and scouting staff in making (better) decisions with the help of data, research, and scientific knowledge.

Jurrit has obtained a special interest in growth and maturation and developed PSV's own growth model. In addition, he has worked as a researcher on cognitive skills in football and has developed PSV's own vision and training methods with regard to this topic.

Xavi holds both a BSc and MSc in sports science. His main role is to support strength and conditioning coaches to convert training data to useful info and optimise the decision-making process. He is passionate to merge data and sport performance.

Maria is a strength and conditioning coach and specialist in injury rehabilitation and has worked for the high-performance football teams in Russia since 2007 (FC Lokomotiv, FC Ufa, FC Zenit). She is a former head of FC Lokomotiv's Moscow sports injuries rehabilitation centre. Maria is an invited speaker for multiple sports medicine congresses and conferences as well as the author of the “Rehab after ACL reconstruction surgery” educational course and various scientific articles.

After a long militancy (1999-2017) in three of the main teams of the Italian Championship (Juventus, Sampdoria, and Internazionale of Milan) Andrea Scanavino is currently engaged at Zenit in St. Petersburg in Russia.

Since September 2018, he has worked with the Italian National Soccer Team, which was European Champion at Euro 2020 (played in 2021).

Marco Fumagalli is a product of the Royal Belgium Football Association´s finest coaches school. He worked in different roles such as tactical analyst, assistant coach, and head of scouting in international clubs such as Galatasaray S.K., FC Internazionale Milano, Valencia CF, Genoa CFC, and ACF Fiorentina with a particular focus on both data and the tactical aspect of the game.

Rainer van Gaal Appelhof has been at FC Utrecht for the last four and a half seasons and recently moved into the role of head of sport science and strength and conditioning. He holds an MSc in sports science from the University of Leuven, where he also obtained his coaching license (UEFA Elite Youth). Within this position he’s responsible for the day-to-day physical development and monitoring of all first team players, as well as, together with the performance manager, overseeing the development and implementation of the club’s physical department from U8 to the first team. His main aim is bridging the gap, both for players and staff, between performance and football.

After joining the club in June 2018, Jeroen currently works as performance manager at FC Utrecht. He holds a master's in musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy from the University of South Australia and most recently finished the UEFA certificate in football management from the University of Lausanne. As a leader, he’s experienced in setting up performance teams. He’s responsible for overseeing the medical, sport science, S&C, nutrition, psychology, rehabilitation, scientific innovation, and technology domains. His main aim is to blend short-term success with long-term vision through a holistic player (and team) approach.

Nádima Skeff is the head coach at America Mg, competing in the Campeonato Brasileiro Feminino A2. She is certified with level 2 in coaching football with the English Football Association (the FA) and currently pursuing her coaching license with CBF level B in Brazil. With experiences as a high-level player with the Brazil National U20 team and with the Danish league, she also played in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship in the USA while obtaining her master’s degree in kinesiology at Georgia Southern University. Her main aim is to collaborate with the growth of women's football, giving support to the players and the club while seeking to promote a higher level of playing and development conditions.

Luke Theakston is a performance specialist who has worked at the highest level of senior and youth academy football in England (Reading FC and Portsmouth FC), Hungary (Újpest FC), the Netherlands (AFC Ajax and AFC) and China (Beijing Guoan FC). He holds a master’s degree in human movement science (VU, Amsterdam), a bachelor’s degree in sport science (University of Surrey), a diploma in football medicine (FIFA), and a UEFA football coaching license (the FA). Luke has developed a particular interest and expertise in football fitness, periodisation, testing and growth and maturation. He has also presented lectures on high-performance at a number of universities (Shanghai University of Sport and Beijing Sport University (BSU)) and is an active member of High Performance Group China. Luke is currently the head of academy performance at Beijing Guoan FC in the Chinese Super League (CSL). 

Ryan Alexander currently serves as the director of sports science for Atlanta United FC.  He came to Atlanta in October of 2016 after leaving a position at U.S. Soccer, where he worked for the men’s national team as a sports scientist. Prior to his time with the men’s national team, he worked across the youth national team system for U.S. Soccer since 2013. Ryan received his PhD from East Tennessee State University in sport and physiology performance.

Marko Matušinskij is an academy head of physical performance and methodology at the GNK Dinamo Zagreb. Before that, he also worked as a strength and conditioning coach in different age groups starting from U9 to U19. After the experience with younger ages, he worked with the first teams such as GNK Dinamo B team, Istra, and Rudeš in the First Croatian League. These are the places where he built a craft of developing high-performance environments. To understand football even more, Marko took a UEFA B license course and started to lecture at the University of Kinesiology and Croatian Football Federation in the domain of strength and conditioning in professional football. As an academy head of performance and sport scientist, Marko is striving to introduce the best practices and knowledge to the GNK Dinamo system.

In addition to his law studies, Lorenz did the "Game Analysis Certificate" at IST Düsseldorf in 2018. As he was immediately captivated by the field, he started working as an analyst at Wiener Sport Club. Along the way, Lorenz worked as a youth coach and moved to the academy of Wiener Austria in the winter of 2020. His goal since then has been to pull a sustainable and innovative game analysis through the entire club. Since this season, Lorenz has been able to drive this goal forward from the first team to the youngest players. 

Adam is in charge of developing a learning culture by combining video, event, and physiological data with tactical individual goal-setting objectives to help each player contribute best for the team. He was performing performance analysis and scouting roles with Hapoel Tel-Aviv and Chelsea FC Academy. He has a huge passion for the game and is a lecturer for football development with a player-centred approach. Growing up as a basketball point guard and captain alongside serving three years as an IDF Special Forces Commander has highly influenced his career.

Pato Jerzak is a professional player born in Poland and raised in Sweden. She has played for clubs like Djurgården IF, Napoli, and Umeå IK. She is also the co-founder of Football is Everywhere, which is both a football magazine and a creative studio.

Previously first team analyst for Budapest Honved, Puskas Academy, and SonderjyskE, Abel aims to connect analysis with the training process as closely as possible. How can athletes learn the easiest and fastest? How can coaches ensure the training is engaging, while always hitting the soft spot between supporting athletes and stretching their abilities? These are the questions that he seeks to answer.

Miklós holds a PhD in economics. He is an advanced analytics professional with 20 years’ experience in a variety of roles, with special focus on statistics, predictive analytics, and data visualisation. Miklós currently works as an insights team lead at xfb Analytics, where he can apply his professional knowledge to his life-long passion, which is football. Miklós has been mainly involved in building machine learning models and producing insights for football clubs and organisations.

Michele Turloni is a professional fitness coach who has been working in Serie A at Udinese Calcio for 10 years, first as a physiotherapist and then in charge of injury recovery. He specialises in the management and recovery of injured athletes. He will present his experience in field recovery management through the systematic use of load data. 

Ian's research interests lie in statistics in sport and the analysis of gambling markets and issues relating to gambling. Ian was founding chair of the Royal Statistical Society's Statistics in Sport Section and serves as associate editor of the International Journal of Forecasting and the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sport. Ian has published research on a wide variety of topics, including: ranking methods in sport, forecasting results in football, tennis, cricket, and golf, assessment of changes to gambling regulation, and the behaviour of lottery players.

Ian has consulted with, amongst others, football clubs, the Premier League, the Press Association, the Responsible Gambling Trust (GambleAware), the General Medical Council, and several bookmakers. In 2005, Ian created the EA SPORTS Player Performance Indicator, the official player ratings system of the Barclays Premier League.