António Figueiredo

Borned in Portugal 47 years ago, António Figueiredo dedicated most of his life on the research and practice of the best solutions to improve youth training and developing strategies to better understand the process allowing the coaches and scouts to make the best choices when scouting young talented players! Acting currently as the Dean of one of the most prestigious Sports Faculty’s in the world, the Sport Faculty of the Coimbra University (Portugal), António Figueiredo ads to his researching capability, many years of practical work as a youth coach, youth department coordinator of a Portuguese Professional Club and, more recently, acting as a Vice-President of Académica de Coimbra OAF responsible for the management of the club’s youth department! He also holds a PhD degree in Sport Sciences with the dissertation “Growth, maturation and training - A study of youth soccer players 11-15 years of age”!