drillstars Digital Assistant Coach for Football/Soccer Teams

What is drillstars?

drillstars serves as a digital assistant coach, specifically tailored for football (soccer) teams aiming to enhance their performance. The platform facilitates comprehensive team management, allowing coaches to invite players, who can then create their own profiles. A central feature is the team calendar, enabling the scheduling and sharing of matches, team practices, and individual workouts, with automatic synchronization ensuring all members are updated on changes.

The tool supports the creation and distribution of detailed workout plans. Coaches can define team exercises and individual drills using pictures, videos, and animations, drawing from their own creations or the drillstars exercise pool. A key aspect is its AI integration, which automatically analyzes player performance during specific drills like endurance runs by extracting data from uploaded activity screenshots from common running apps. This provides coaches with instant feedback on execution, intensity, and overall progress, alongside team reports and statistics to set goals and measure achievements effectively.

Features

Team Calendar Management: Shareable calendar for matches, team practices, and individual workouts with automatic synchronization.
Custom Exercise & Drill Creation: Define team exercises and individual drills with pictures, videos, and animations.
Exercise Pool Access: Utilize a pre-existing library of drills and exercises.
AI Endurance Run Verification: Automatically analyzes player-uploaded running activity screenshots for time, distance, and pace.
AI Performance Feedback: Provides instant feedback on workout execution and intensity.
Individual Workout Tracking: Monitor player performance during individual drills like ball technique and dribbling.
Team & Player Reporting: Generate performance reports, set goals, and measure achievements with leaderboards and stats.

Use Cases

Managing football/soccer team schedules and player availability.
Creating and distributing team practice plans.
Assigning and monitoring individual player training programs.
Automating the analysis of player endurance runs.
Providing structured drills for ball technique and cognitive skills.
Tracking team and individual player progress over time.
Streamlining communication and planning within coaching staff.

FAQs

How does drillstars track endurance runs?

Players use their preferred running apps, track their run, and upload a screenshot of the activity to drillstars. The platform's AI then automatically extracts key information like time, distance, and pace.
Can coaches create their own exercises within drillstars?

Yes, coaches can define custom exercises and drills using pictures, videos, and animations for both team training sessions and individual player workouts.
What types of individual drills does drillstars support?

drillstars offers individual drills focusing on areas such as endurance, fitness, ball technique (including dribbling drills), speed, and kinetics.
How does the team calendar feature work?

Coaches can create and share a team calendar detailing matches, practices, and individual workouts. Any changes made by the coach are automatically synchronized, and players can update their availability.
Can assistant coaches collaborate on training plans?

Yes, coaches can define exercises and share them with assistant coaches, allowing for collaborative creation and management of training plans.