He was Roger Federer’s first fitness coach and worked alongside Lionel Messi: now he will advise Talleres

In his LinkedIn profile, he defines himself as an expert in neuromotor reprogramming, noting in his description that after 30 years working on the professional tennis tour, ATP and WTA, he was responsible for the development of the Allyane concept (used in (for patient recovery), sports can use this method to “develop the perfect athlete.” In the end, the facts did not go unnoticed: “Young Roger Federer’s coach, but I’m making it Especially in football, the stars of tomorrow”. Paul Dorochenko is a kinesiologist, physical trainer and osteopath, but above all the French-Algerian is a consummate connoisseur of high-performance sports.

He has a degree in sports physiotherapy and a diploma in physical preparation and was one of the first strength and conditioning coaches to enter the professional tennis circuit in the 1980s, where he worked for 20 years with more than a dozen tennis players. top 10. Today, he is a football consultant and neuromotor reprogramming expert who dares to predict that “the future of sport will be neuroscience.”

“Neuroscience is the future. (Pep) Guardiola and all these people (by which he means coaches and high-level athletes) already understand everything we can contribute to high-level football,” he told us World D

Spanish is verbose.Dorochenko spent a week in Cordoba, where he arrived for the Traumatology Congress, and will continue to come to the city every three months because Workshop professionals will be trained to apply neuroscience to sport.

The professional assured that all professional clubs that want to “raise stars” must pay attention to neuroscience, confirming that not all presidents share the vision of Andrés Fassi, head of the Jardín community entity. “We are in an old sport and it is very difficult to change these mentality. The mentality is a long-term prison. You cannot change the mentality in five minutes, but there are institutions that clearly understand the role of neuroscience in football,” he commented.

Directional eye method and Allyane method

At 70 years old, he is one of the most famous physical trainers in professional tennis and believes that there is a reason why some athletes, such as Messi, Federer or Cristiano Ronaldo, become who they are. Play like them.

Laterality concept expert and author of this book guiding eyeDorochenko may answer questions such as why Lionel Messi is able to do things others cannot do on the playing field, why drive Why is Federer always so exquisite? “El Dibu” Martinez will look one way or another in his most stressful moments.

And, “without anesthesia,” he said, “talent doesn’t exist.” But he quickly clarified: “Talent is something you have to do every day to have it. No, I don’t believe in talent.” The multidisciplinary “Federer was not born Federer,” the professional said, defending: “When I started with him when I was 17, I don’t know, he was third or fourth in Switzerland, he was not the best. It’s all work, but it’s difficult because the guy is stubborn, he doesn’t do physical training, he forgets his racket, he breaks it. “He’s got a lot of personality, a bit crazy, he’s only 17 like all of us age. “

He continued: “But at the end of the day, it’s about the effort (a Spanish term for what he puts all his attention into), the day-to-day things and the routine; in the end it’s Federer. When I stopped working with him (they were between 1998 and 2000) “I never thought Federer would be Federer when I was together) and working with Sergi Bruguera (former tennis player). “It’s a crack. “

The professional also addressed Rosario star Lionel Messi. “It’s obvious that 10 or 12-year-olds have more things (skills) than other children, but it also requires a lot of work,” said the Algerian who tested Argentinian football players for laterality, explaining ” Messi’s left foot and right eye, it’s crossed and moves more to the right because then it has a broad view of the space it’s trying to cover”; Ronaldo, on the other hand, is the opposite, right foot and left eye.

Armed with this data, what professionals do with these talents is try to place them in the positions that best suit them. During these tests, interesting details emerged. “For example, a high-level goalkeeper is almost always left-footed, left-footed. The Argentina goalkeeper (Dib Martinez) crosses; the Crusader doesn’t think about what he’s going to say, he just takes action. Similar personalities People with a disorganized personality will calculate more, while people with a disorganized personality will not,” Dorochenko said.

He assured athletes aged 16 to 18 that having this data would be important for future work with these athletes.in his book guiding eyeWritten in 2013, Paul Dorochenko explains what intersectionality or homophily means and how it affects people. Answer questions about the position a football player should take based on his physical condition, or how it affects the mental aspect.

He also emphasized how important it is to consider each athlete’s technical, physical preparation, injury prevention and psychological biases. “There is no single technique, there are techniques that suit our constitution,” he clarified.

This is also true of the Allyane Method, a neuromotor reprogramming system based on radiofrequency sound and visualization that allows you to change your athletic posture or recover from a sports injury in less time. “You can change the way the serve is served in tennis, or make someone more right-handed or more left-handed, so that person can regain mobility more quickly after an ACL injury,” said Tennis’ most prestigious professional summed up one of the people, Dorochenko. His field…