Hapoel Tel Aviv followed PSG’s path, among other things, when it hired the services of Soccer Services Barcelona in order to build a training method for the club based on the Ekkono method developed by the company’s staff.
“In short, it is a method that aims to use technical aids to help the players understand the game better and deepen their tactical knowledge. It is adapted to the needs of each club. It is a method that has been applied all over the world and it has taken something from several styles of football, not just a style of football One,” said the company’s CEO, Mikal Perrones, in an interview with the Swedish media after he was hired by Swedish Gothenburg.
The company itself sits in an apartment building in the center of Barcelona. A total of 25-30 people work in the company, according to Perrones. “We help implement football methods,” he said when asked what the company does and added: “We work to improve the players and coaches. It happens a lot in big clubs that the method of play and scouting changes when a coach changes. For us it is important that the club strengthen its identity and have a strategy. This is something bigger than a coach Or a certain player”.
The second figure mentioned in Hapoel Tel Aviv’s announcement to the media, David Hernandez, was one of the masterminds of the system, which helped players like Jordi Alba, Cesc Fabregas and Christian Pulisic develop, and also made PSG’s youth department one of the most successful.
“We are a consulting company,” Perrones noted in a podcast he was interviewed in the US, “When we sign with a club, we perform analyzes and help the club implement changes, but we don’t go there to train the youth or be the technical directors or the sporting directors or the presidents. We are not there to take their place.”
Perrones continued and explained: “We provide the club with a process. The goal is to implement the method and after that happens, we leave. Usually we sign for 3-5 years. It is clear that we will leave at some point. We just want to help the club start a new project or focus on identity of the club”.
The company was published following the decision of PSG. Hire her in order to upgrade the youth department. Perrones: “We worked for three years at PSG to create an identity for the youth department. To assimilate the methodology, to create processes. There was a big boom around our brand following the project there.”
It is not clear how much it costs Hapoel Tel to hire the company, but in the same interview Perrons stated that “we are not cheap, but our work continues to resonate even after we leave.” And what about the style of football that he himself prefers? “We are big supporters of football with possession ball, and we implemented it in Barcelona and PSG as well. And also in the little Sandsabel from Sweden.”
“Our way of thinking is that you have to build the game from the back. With the right training and the right players, even a team with a low budget can play this way. In the long run, it pays off. We are from Barcelona, ​​so we can’t say otherwise…”, Perrones concluded.