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Q&A: Danilo de Souza - SC Paderborn 07
Danilo Fernando Evangelista de Souza Assistant Manager SC Paderborn 07
After many years as a professional player, video is now helping Danilo develop his coaching career at SC Paderborn 07.
How were you first introduced to video analysis?
I always had a passion for it. Before I even had this job, I collected and analysed over 1,000 matches myself. Back when I was still playing, I watched every game where I thought I could learn something and analysed it to maybe draw some lessons to become a better player. That’s how I started doing this, and of course it trained my brain and eyes to see better and notice things others could often miss.
How has video analysis improved since you were a player?
I have to say when I first started out as a player in the early 2000s, it wasn’t much help. Coaches would only use analysis to show what was bad, where there were errors. And that bothered me the most, that there was no learning process after the analysis. Or that it wasn’t connected to exercises in training, which is of course what we’re trying to do here.
How have you incorporated video into your workflows since you joined SC Paderborn 07?
We as coaches use Hudl and Sportscode daily, to prepare for our next opponents, analyse our last match, and to prepare for training sessions. We get a chance four to five times a week to show the players video on the Hudl platform, to show where they can improve a specific exercise in training. We use statistics from Sportscode to present findings to our team. We try to integrate this as much as possible in our everyday routines.
Danilo using Sportscode to analyse the previous day’s training session. Once the session has been tagged and assessed, the video will be shared for team review.
What coaching benefits do you gain from video?
For me, [Hudl] made my work so much easier, and for time management it’s essential, to analyse a match with speed, because we train and play several times per week. A match lasts 90 minutes. But it takes a lot longer for a coach when you take the time for analysis into consideration. In terms of speed and time factor, Hudl is the best there is. It would take three times as long to do what we do without it.
In addition to the first team, how do you use video analysis in other areas of the club?
Aside from our senior squad, our under-21s and under-19s use it too. Our aim is to soon work our way towards to the under-15s and 17s using as well. It’s very important for us that the youth teams work with Hudl, firstly to keep everything uniform, and crucially to improve and facilitate the sharing of videos and summaries.
How does video help develop your youth players?
Truthfully, we barely have a chance to see these young players live because we will have a simultaneous match or we train at different times. We want to see as many of them as possible, so we have a better idea of how they’ll be when they graduate to the senior squad and how we can best integrate them. Now we can view footage of the players daily and produce a database of the best clips for each player. This is available for us to view in under five minutes, which has made our job so much easier.
2018 saw Paderborn win promotion back to the second tier of German football, a victory Danilo is quick to attribute to the club’s strategic use of video analysis.
