Both coaches and fitness trainers need performance data to improve decision-making, and OLIVER PRO aims to be the most comfortable and useful tool for the technical staff. With over 200 teams in more than 45 countries and inclusion in the FIFA Innovation Programme, OLIVER PRO stands out for its simple, intuitive, and AI-powered platform, as well as its technical precision, meeting the highest global standards.
What Is It and Why Incorporate GPS Technology into Your Team?
Monitoring technology is, in simple terms, a tool consisting of a tracker that collects thousands of data points and a platform to visualize them. It provides key information to help fitness trainers and coaches improve decision-making and take their teams to the next level.
OLIVER PRO takes this technology a step further with AI, offering data visualization with actionable insights after each training session and game, both individually and for the team, answering the question: "What to do with this data?" The tracker collects data during the game or training session, which is then sync with a mobile app to instantly receive improvement recommendations.
First of all, monitoring technology has dozens of functionalities, which we’ll discuss later in this article, but two main general objectives: Enhancing performance and preventing injuries.
Boosting Performance
Thanks to the measurement of dozens of metrics, each coach and fitness trainer can personalize and plan training sessions, aiming to improve underdeveloped aspects of the players and enhance those that are already strengths.
Additionally, the OLIVER PRO platform allows for player comparisons based on multiple variables, generating reports, and accessing a wealth of information clearly and concisely. In short, OLIVER PRO and monitoring technology, in general, provide a vast amount of information, and in today’s football, information undoubtedly maximizes sporting success.
UE Santa Coloma, one of the many teams that enhance their performance with OLIVER PRO
Preventing Injuries
This objective is achieved thanks to two main features offered by this technology. First, it allows load management through precise metrics and enables a much more adequate and professional training planning. This gives fitness trainers the necessary information to avoid undertraining or overtraining a player, reducing injuries to a minimum.
"It’s a tool we use daily, and it greatly helps us in load management. It allows us to compensate and adjust the loads of players who have more or fewer minutes in competition" Samuel Fariña Rivero, Physical trainer - UDG Tenerife
On the other hand, OLIVER PRO offers a key metric: return to play. Through this metric and thanks to sports science, the platform provides personalized tracking of recovering players. This metric helps prevent injury recurrence by accurately informing when a player can safely return to competitive levels.
Moreover, OLIVER PRO features an “Injury Dashboard,” where fitness trainers can keep a detailed record of each injury. This dashboard helps clarify the overall squad situation and improve decision-making.
Versatility and Multi-Sport: A Key Feature of OLIVER PRO
In the past year, the OLIVER SPORTS team has added more versatility and capability to the technology, and it’s now possible to use OLIVER PRO in other sports, both indoors and outdoors. Football, futsal, American football, basketball, rugby, hockey, and more disciplines can use OLIVER PRO to enhance performance and prevent injuries.
The origin of our technology was to provide a standout solution in football/soccer by placing it on the leg and accessing foot-ball metrics never seen before. However, in our sustainable growth process, since 2024, OLIVER PRO offers two formats: placement in a vest or a calf sleeve. This versatility allows many sports to finally access elite tech at an affordable price.
Validated by the Best: FIFA Innovation Programme & Barça Innovation Hub
The legitimacy of the metrics and data is extremely important when selecting which technology to work with, and OLIVER PRO has the best allies. Since 2023, OLIVER PRO has been validated by the Barça Innovation Hub and became the first company invested in by FC Barcelona itself.
After five years of intense product development, OLIVER PRO entered the FIFA Innovation Programme. This program aims to identify and support innovative technologies that have the potential to add unique value to the world of football/soccer. Being selected for this program means that this technology has been rigorously monitored and validated by FIFA's team of experts in data, analytics, and performance.
OLIVER PRO Platform: Excellence in Functionality and Innovation
The +250 fitness trainers who use OLIVER PRO constantly highlight the platform, as monitoring technology should not only be a powerful data collector but also derive its true value from the in-depth analysis of that information.
Some of the most used and valued features of the platform are:
Tagging in Timeline. This feature allows you to view the “Metrics by Minutes” in a minute-by-minute graph and tag specific segments within the timeline, making it easier to highlight key moments and actions during training sessions or games. Tasks can be saved with or without the ball.
Watch this video to learn how this innovative function works.
Individualized and Customizable Injury Risk: Using the ACWR index and the help of Artificial Intelligence, it’s easy to identify which player is undertrained, within a safe zone, or overtrained. This helps fitness trainers plan training sessions and control loads to prevent a high percentage of injuries.
Interactive Heatmap. This feature allows users to view the “Heatmap” minute by minute, to know the player’s movement on the field at each moment of the match. To improve the experience, it features automatic recognition of match times. The interactive heat map is the perfect balance to add Big Data to a team’s tactical analysis.
Mapa de calor interactivo es el equilibrio perfecto para sumar el Big Data al análisis táctico de un equipo.
Load Comparison with games The platform allows for comparing game and training intensities, and this enables the adjustment of microcycles based on game loads. Comparing intensities with the game and adjusting microcycles to improve team and individual player performance.
Player Profile. This feature provides detailed insight into a player’s evolution and also allows for comparison with the rest of the players on the team and the club. It facilitates personalized tracking of the progress of specific metrics.
Training and Game Metrics. The OLIVER PRO platform allows viewing and analyzing accumulated team metrics, as well as individualized metrics for each player. Thanks to its intuitive interface, it’s also very easy to compare both players and sessions. This data dashboard serves to obtain relevant information from each training session or game.
"OLIVER PRO is a very interesting tool that allows us to obtain objective information about what players have done on the field and connect it with how players think they have performed." Pau Casassa Busquets, General Technical Director - Barça Academy
Who Uses OLIVER PRO? 200+ Teams in Over 45 Countries
OLIVER SPORTS was born with the mission of democratizing access to elite technology for all athletes worldwide, and it’s undoubtedly succeeding. OLIVER PRO has been chosen by teams in men’s football, women’s football, futsal, youth football, American football, field hockey, handball, Gaelic football, basketball, and rugby. This highlights the versatility of OLIVER PRO and also its accessibility, allowing teams of all budgets to invest in innovation and technology.
Futsal is one of the disciplines that most choose OLIVER PRO, as it offers unique features and possibilities. An example is that the best teams in the world use it, including seven of the 16 teams in Spain’s LNFS, such as Jimbee Cartagena, the latest champion. Additionally, six teams in the Champions League will also use OLIVER PRO this season. In Asian Futsal, top teams like Semey from Kazakhstan, Johor from Malaysia, Bintang Timur Surabaya from Indonesia, Shenzhen Nanling Tienland FC from China, and Nagoya Oceans from Japan also choose this technology.
Jimbee Cartagena, one of the seven LNFS teams that uses OLIVER PRO
Regarding men’s football/soccer, teams like UE Sant Andreu, UE Tona, UE Cornellà from Spain, UE Santa Coloma from Andorra, Marsaxlokk FC from Malta, ZED FC from Egypt, Amora FC from Portugal, Deportes Concepción, and Concon National from Chile choose OLIVER PRO to take their squads to the next level of performance.
Women’s football/soccer is no exception, and OLIVER PRO is used by top-tier teams in Spain, such as UDG Tenerife, in Argentina, such as Gimnasia de La Plata, in Brazil, such as São Paulo, and in Chile, such as Palestino Femenino. Numerous youth teams, like FC Barcelona, also use OLIVER PRO in their matches and training sessions.
Other teams decide to equip their academies with OLIVER PRO to enhance the performance of their youth teams and keep a data record throughout the players’ development. Some of these teams include Sporting de Gijón, Racing de Santander, Unión Huaral, among others.
Success Story: How OLIVER PRO Is Used by the Spanish and Italian futsal champions
During the 2023/24 season, two of the best futsal leagues in the world had teams using OLIVER PRO as champions, proving that performance analysis boosts team results. Both Jimbee Cartagena in Spain and Meta Catania in Italy lifted the most important trophies in their country, and will compete in the next UEFA Futsal Champions League 2024/2025. Find out all the details in this article.
Frequently Asked Questions, Everything You Need to Know
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