Read what Leif Tsolis, Sports Director/Head coach at Mallorca Toppfotball says about Mallorca Toppfotball and the professional life that awaits the players.
At Mallorca Toppfotball we normally have 3-4 workouts a day 5 days a week. Match 1 day a week. Free 1 day a week.
Between workouts is all about rest, sleep, restitution and diet. We are 4 managers and coaches full time almost all the time. We follow up the players 24/7 both on and off the field. The coaches are 67 years, 39 years, 29 years and 25 years old. In addition, it is going to be some Spanish influences. We have been working with elite sport in Mallorca since 1985. Mallorca Toppfotball (formerly Scandinavian Football School) has existed for 10 years in Alcudia.
07:00 we train on the beach, in the mountains, in the parks with soft forest floor or in the stairs. The main focus is technical training or physical exercise. The physical training consists of strength, flexibility, speed, agility, running technique and fitness. Responsible for these trainings are our physical coach Thorleif Holme. There are 0 meters to the beach, so we do not spend any time on logistics. Otherwise we jog to where we are going as a part of training. We lose no time.
11:00 we have football sessions at Alcudia stadium. We have traditional sessions, individual sessions where we work with development goals and we have preparatory sessions into the match. You get a good and wide range throughout a week of training with us. The Player Developer and assistant coach will control a good part of these sessions early in the week, while Leif Tsolis, who is the head coach, will have preparatory sessions and manage the team in games. 5 minutes to go to the field. The field is in fantastic shape and the artificial turf was new in 2016.
15:00 is recovery jog along the seafront and stretching on the beach.
19:00 there is strength to the upper body in the gym. With training and supervision. The Health club is inside the hotel, so you do not even need to go out. Here we have also Jacuzzi, sauna, etc...
We sometimes combine the 15:00 and 19:00 sessions.
As you see, we have optimal and varied training opportunities. We live on the training place and we have no time wasted on travel and logistics, as often happens at home.
We live at Sunwing Alcudia Beach. To put it simply: Everything you need and very good standard on everything. You live 2 together and are divided by age. See www.ving.no to read about the very nice hotel. PS! In September and from mid-April we will stay somewhere else. Also a very nice place.
Alcudia is a quiet and child-friendly resort. In winter there are mostly us and Scandinavian pensioners supporting players and look after them. The hotel staff is phenomenal and knows us extremely well. 24 hour reception, doctor on site every day, everyone speaks Scandinavian and the rooms have everything we need.
Cheap food in shops located in the immediate vicinity. We want players to learn how to manage their personal finances, making purchases in the store, cook, wash up and keep the rooms in a good shape. They also will be washing their own clothes. For us it is important that players learn to become more independent in their daily lives, so that they are prepared to support themselves if they have to. It is not unusual for players to move in a bedsit in a new city at club transfers, and it is important to be able to be independent.
The player will get challenges both on and off the field. At times it may be hard, but it is also an incredible amount of fun. The school is known for its stunning good environment where everyone takes care of each other. One gets lifelong friends and memories that are a dear old friend when one gets older (we are talking experience). Players and coaches create an unique development both on and off the field, and everyone is engaged as full-time players and full-time trainers. Our focus is unity and fun, development and results. Often Champions League evenings and Premier League days together.
For us the sporting and human development go hand in hand and we are interested in both. There have been and will be Mallorca Toppfotballs philosophy and identity. We are convinced that you are dependent on developments on both fronts.
Our objective is to develop top players and create unique football experiences through sports and human development.
Mallorca Toppfotball is once in a life. It is an investment and a vocational practice at being a full-time footballer abroad. For us, football is a profession, not a hobby. We operate after this principle and differs us from the traditional elite sport courses in Norway. With us it is 100% focuse on football with a goal of reaching far.
But we would also like to emphasize that we are not against education, contrary. But we believe that taking a free-year during High School or an education during a longer period are relatively unproblematic. Maybe you need a break.
We think it is particularly exciting with players leaving early down to us. It will be a great advantage to travel down as early as possible, to get incorporated all the attitudes and habits required to be top player already now. Then you can take advantage of all developments, impulses and life experience throughout their junior age. And in that way, achieve far better results.
If you have the opportunity to travel to Mallorca, I would recommend it highly.
F.C. Mallorca Toppfotball: Our own Spanish football club! Bus to games being set up for players and Scandinavian fans and it will be a great atmosphere. Sales of team merchandise and distribution of match program.
- We will play in the Spanish league, we will have friendlies against selected Spanish teams and participate in a tournament. We also add some Spanish players to the men's team and women's team at F.C. Mallorca Toppfotball.
But it's hard work in training everyday to realize your dreams and personal goals. Do not forget it. The job must be done. Every day, every week, month after month, year after year.
TV 2 has contacted us and said they want to try to make a report, and we hope and believe it will become a reality this fall. No promises are made, but we take this as a compliment whatever the outcome. Thanks for your interest. They think Mallorca Toppfotball is a startling and exciting project with great x-factor!
Mallorca Toppfotball has employed a marketing and media manager to profile players, coaches, managers and partners in daily life. He will film games, creating daily video reports from the training sessions and manage our own TV channel Mallorca Toppfotball TV. Andreas Kristoffer Berge will build the brand Mallorca Toppfotball. In this way, our young footballers get to learn how it is to get the microphone in their face, speaking in front of the camera and be interviewed. They will learn how to be in the media spotlight and deal with this.
Players have 14 days Christmas break and can be visited by friends and family at Mallorca.
We offer parents week for players' parents, press week for local newspapers and partners in the press and sponsor tour for our partners.
Soon we move a fantastic group of Norwegian footballers to Mallorca for 9 months to live as full-time footballers. Reviving one of the best and most exclusive investment projects run by Norway ever. For women and men.
- We travel on Friday 2nd of September 2016 to the world's best football nation to develop top players and create unique football experiences.
Crude x-factor!
We will develop, we shall win. We will sacrifice, we will bleed. We will have fun, we stand together.
We should have results.
I am ready. Are you?
With best regards
Leif Tsolis
Sports Director / Head coach
Mallorca Toppfotball
