In many cases the midfield of a team plays a vital role in football competition and the quality of players might have a decisive role.

It seems like an ongoing debate if an academy can actually develop the next world class player and if that one (player) out of ??? (players) is actually worth the work or money from an economical side (having in mind that in some leagues the clubs must have an academy).

The footage below shows the pre-match warm-up of the Hamburger SV players before their game against SV Darmstadt '98.

As the title proposes, the video below shows the pre-march warm-up of the HSV goalkeeper.

The footage was taken before the game against SV Darmstadt '98 (2nd German division).

I was able to visit my one and only Bundesliga game for the closed 2016/2017 season.

Obviously, I brought my camera and took some footage of the goalkeeper warm-up of both teams.

Unfortunately it is not the entire warm-up as I focused on the teams later on. However, please enjoy the two videos below, the first one shows the FC Schalke and the second one the Eintracht Frankfurt goalkeeper warm-up.

The video below shows the pre-match warm-up of the german Bunesliga team Eintracht Frankfurt.

As already mentioned in previous two blog posts, I was able to visit the UEFA Champions League semi-final BVB against AS Monaco. Furthermore, I have posted the two pre-match warm-up of Dortmund HERE and of Monaco HERE.

Nevertheless, I was able to take some footage from the goalkeepers warm-up as well. If interested, please check out the video below.

Chapter 9 of the European club footballing landscape was about squad cost and wages

Generally, wages absorbed 63% of the club’s revenue in 2015.

As mentioned in previous post about the BVB warm-up HERE, I was also able to tape most of the pre-match warm-up of AS Monaco.

The warm-up can be seen below.

Chapter 8 was about the UEFA clubs and their revenue.

Generally, revenue has grown over the last year with an average of more than 9% per year. The club’s revenue are now six times the level of 1996.

Due to a good friend I was able to visit the UEFA Champions league match of Borussia Dortmund against AS Monaco.

The 6th edition of the annual Al-Kass U17 international tournament was held in Doha in January.

My former colleague Ioannis Grammos was able to visit some games and kind to record some warm-up procedures of PSG and the Aspire Academy.

The fifth chapter of the UEFA Club Footballing Landscape was about (foreign) club ownership.

Forty-four clubs in major European leagues are now under foreign ownership, by owners of 18 different nationalities.

Foreign ownership is still centered in England, where more than half of the clubs in the top two leagues now have foreign owners.

2016 was the most active year for foreign club takeovers, with ten new acquisitions by November, including eight new Chinese owners.

Chapter 4 of the UEFA Club Footballing Landscape was about the supporters.

Over 170 mio people went to European league matches in 2015/2016 with 55 mio in England and Germany alone. Overall there was a significant increase and 14 leagues achieved their best attendance figures in more than 10 years.

The 6th edition of the annual Al-Kass U17 international tournament was held in Doha until today.

My former colleague Ioannis Grammos was able to visit some games and kind to record some warm-up procedures of Eintracht Frankfurt, AS Roma and Kashiwa Reysol.

The second big part of the "The European Club Footballing Landscape", from the 2014/2015 season, was about the players.

The average age of first-team squads (in January 2016) can be seen in the following maps below. It seems that the talent-importing leagues tend to have a higher average first team squad compared to talent exporters (such as Netherlands and the Balkan countries).

The head coach plays a paramount role in every football club. Consequently, UEFA investigated different topics "around" the head coach in its release "The European Club Footballing Landscape".

The manuscript highlighted some data evaluated from the the 2014/2015 season.

First topic was about "Head coach security" and it seems that it remains a problem and it i getting worse in many places. Please have a look at the first European and global maps below.

With the first game of the 2016/2017 UEFA Champions League group stage played I thought its time to shine some light on the possible prize money the clubs (possibly) earn.

As the picture indicates, a possible 62.2 mio Euros are possible with winning all games.

Below is a list of Europe’s football clubs ranked based on their average spectator attendance for the 2015/2016 season.

Interestingly, 9 clubs are from Germany, 4 from England, 3 from Spain, 2 from Netherlands, 1 from France and 1 from Portugal.

Below you will find some random (but still entertaining/interesting) facts about the current EURO 2016.

Just in case you have not watched enough football lately I have found some nice YouTube clips that left me with an open mouth (or made me laugh).

This is another post about the upcoming EURO 2016. I thought it would be interesting to see if I can find some "statistics" about the players participating in the tournament.

Whilst on summer break it happened that the French National Football team held a short preparation camp at the "Stubaital" (Austria) for the European Championship 2016 in France. Coincidentally the camp was a 30-minute drive away and I was able to tape a session from outside the training ground (and the fence - obviously I missed to book a ticket beforehand).

With the European Championship around the corner I believe it is worth downloading our "Euro 2016 Game Schedule Pocket Guide".

The Al-Kass tournament was played at Doha last week. Its an international tournament in which U-16 age group teams of several top clubs faced-off in a 10-day competition.

Unfortunately I was not able to attend the games from this year. However, I have not had released the videos from last years tournament. Clicking on the provided links below will give you the warm-up procedures of the selected team.

I was able to attend the Aspetar "Challenges in Football Injuries" that was held at Doha last week.

Below you will find some "take-home/conclusion/key messages" of presentations.

Below is another training session of FC Bayern Munich during its winter training camp 2016 at Doha.

As Bayern Munich hold its winter training camp at Doha earlier this year I was able to compile some footage of the goalkeepers.

The video below shows (mainly) the warm-up as they participated in the team training session after.

Below is another training session of FC Bayern Munich at their winter training camp at Doha 2016.

FC Bayern Munich is holding its winter training camp at Doha.

The following video shows one of the training sessions.