Michel Bruyninckx

Michel Bruyninckx is a Belgian football coach primarily known for his methods of brain training for soccer players. He has worked as academy director for Belgian club Standard Liege,[1][2] and at Qatar's Aspire Academy. He has named his brain training method CogiTraining.

According to Bruyninckx, the method's objective is to generate intelligent players who can think and play faster and more accurately in a collective approach.[3] One of the tools used is the SenseBall, which, through specific drills, allows a player to touch the ball a minimum of 500,000 times per season in a bilateralized fashion.[4]

For the last 15 years, in collaboration with the University of Louvain, Michel Bruyninckx has developed his method "CogiTraining", and its key tool "SenseBall", by forming a sample of 180 young people (130 boys and 50 girls). Out of them, 7 girls and 7 boys became international players for Belgium. Among those, Dries Mertens (FC Napoli) and Steven Defour (FC Porto), reserve players of the national Belgian football team.[5]

Moreover, after a year of practising, these young athletes improved on average their school results by 10%, which is explained by the better brain organization generated by the method.[6]

In 2012, Bruyninckx acted as director of the Standard de Liège youth academy.[7] In 2013, he worked for the Aspire academy (Qatar) as co-director in charge of reshaping the training programs. In 2014, the AC Milan has been using the CogiTraining/SenseBall in order to emphasise the “brain centered training” as the core training method given to its young players.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Sudinfo Standard: le directeur de l'Académie Michel Bruyninckx s'en va
  2. ↑ Le Nouvel Afrique Michel BRUYNINCKX et Friendly Foot "C'est ce qu'assure Michel Bruyninckx, professeur de foot à l'Ecole Sport–élite de Louvain (Belgique). Il est par ailleurs le promoteur de la méthode B&M, (Body ...... Tchad, Friendly Foot avec Michel Bruyninckx vont appliquer la méthodologie.."
  3. ↑ CNN Mind over matter: Soccer's bid to train the brain Feb 2013 "His views are shared by Michel Bruyninckx, formerly academy director for Belgian club Standard Liege and now at Qatar's Aspire Academy, who is something of a pioneer when it comes to brain training in soccer players."
  4. ↑ RTBF The CogiTraining and SenseBall revolution
  5. ↑ BBC Cracking coaching's final frontier
  6. ↑ Vlaams Ministerie van Onderwijs en Vorming Deze trainer maakte van Lukaku en Kompany topvoetballers. Wat kan jouw school van hem leren?
  7. ↑ Blizzard Standard Liege's Bruyninckx leads way in developing mental capacity
  8. ↑ CNN.com AC Milan focuses on brain power to develop young players


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