Futsal World Cup
05.11.2012. Bangkok, Thailand : home of the FIFA Futsal World Cup 2012. Futsal is played on a smaller pitch (mainly indoors), and is played between two teams of five players each (one gooalkeeper). Brazil has won 4, Spain 2 World Cups so far.
11+ Thailand
04.11.2012. Bangkok, Thailand. Official course and launch of the FIFA 11+ injury prevention programme with the Thai Football Association, and the Bangkok Hospital, under the lead of our friend Dr.Paisal. The event was also broadcast via teleconference across the country.
Bangkok
03.11.2012. Bangkok, Thailand. More than 12 millions people, and thousands of temples ... Bangkok is one of the world's top tourist destination cities... Thai kickboxing and football are the two major sports ...
DFB friends
20 and 24.10.12 - Meschede, Germany. DFB coaching days with my friends Matthias Eiles (DFB) and former Bundesliga striker Martin Bremer (Darmstad).
DFB coaches
20 and 24.10.12 - Meschede, Germany. Two days with DFB coaching instructors and our 11+ programme: great experience! More on training-wissen.dfb.de
DFB visit
19.10.12 - Frankfurt, Germany . Thanks to our friend Matthias Eiles, we visit the headquarters of the Deutscher Fussball-Bund (DFB), the largest Football Association worldwide with its nearly 7 millions football players (6.749,788 members, to be exact).
Conference at Camp Nou
02.10.2012, Barcelona, Spain. We participate at the IV MuscleTechNetwork conference (Research in Muscle and Tendon Injuries) , held in the FC Barcelona Stadium "Camp Nou", and co-organized by MDs of the FC Barcelona organization. FCB greatly supports our F-MARC activities 11+ and 11for Health.
All Time Great „Le Roi“
25.09.2012, Home of FIFA, Zürich, Switzerland. During a seminar, we've (with my friend Remo Hausherr) the chance to meet Michel Platini, one of the all time great football players (and currently UEFA President).
SSPA @ AGA Zürich 2012
14.09.2012, Zürich-Switzerland. The Swiss Sports Physiotherapy Association organized a Knee Rehab Symposia within the 29th AGA (German Arthroscopy Association). Present were many good friends and researchers, as Barbara Wondrasch (Austria), Nicolas Mathieu, Nicola Maffiuletti and Franco Impellizzeri.
ciao London
12.08.2012 - London 2012 - "The Games" end with a huge concert within the closing ceremony ... but the Paralympics will follow soon...
Basketball show
12/08/2012. US Team won the olympic basketball tournament by beating Spain 107:100. We had the chance to admire some spectacular hoops with Kevin Durant, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and other NBA stars.