Training in technical-tactical football video analysis : Sosthène Sèflimi reveals the objectives

In order to bring its special touch to the professionalization of Beninese football, the Monange Promotions Agency and ANIF-Sport organize 8 at 10 August 2022, training for the benefit of the various clubs to promote a first generation of video analysts. During a meeting with the press, Wednesday 6 July 2022, Sosthène Sèflimi unveiled the objectives of this great initiative.

Benin will soon know its first video analysts. The clubs that run the professional championship and attached to sports companies have recruited European technicians with the new formula of the championship, the Super League. Notwithstanding, none has a specialist capable of working on the matches filmed for the purpose of viewing a posteriori to improve the performance of the players and the club. And today with the professionalization of football launched by the Beninese government, everyone is working to comply with the new requirements and by extension, build the capacity of supervisors. So, to fill this void,  the Monange Promotions Agency and ANIF-Sport with the assistance of the Technical Advisor to the Minister of Sports Jean-Marc Adjovi-Boco called on the Senegalese, Elhadji Abdoulaye Seck in order to strengthen the capacities of professional football clubs by enabling them to train the members of their technical staff in video analysis.

According to Sosthène Sèflimi, Sports project management consultant, the expert will be dispatched to Cotonou for an unprecedented training in technical-tactical football video analysis for the benefit of coaches in Benin. “The objective is to create in Benin, the corps of video analysts, to democratize access to tools for analyzing the performance of footballers, to institute the analysis of the game within the technical frameworks of all professional clubs and training centers, and sports classes”, he indicated.

 To believe it, it is essential nowadays to obtain as much information as possible about the opponents but also to properly decipher the different sessions. "That is why, it is increasingly necessary to have a video analyst in a technical staff who is responsible for studying the game in detail, using technology and using all kinds of data”, he hinted, while specifying that "coaches, supervisors of training centers and sports classes, sports directors, sports journalists, media analysts, recruiters… can register to be entitled to this training”.

Who is Elhadji Abdoulaye Seck??

Holder of a Baccalaureate series C which opened the doors to him of the Cheick Anta Diop University of Dakar in Senegal where he obtained in 1995, a DUES in Mathematics-Physics. In 2006, he graduated Major from the Claude Bernard University of Lyon I in France where he studied the management of sports organizations. He goes on the following year with a Certificate of the methodology and the Dutch vision of Football. In 2009, he passes a diploma of first degree coach, major of its promotion. In 2016, he becomes holder of a second degree coaching diploma coupled with the B license – CAF, major of its promotion. In 2019, he enrolled in the Sport Business Academy, 40 Rue Jean Jaures, 93170 Bagnolet in France to learn the analysis of football performance from where he obtained a certificate of expertise in the Nacsport software.

From 2010 at 2017 he was Head of Detection at the Diambars Institute in Senegal and, of 2017 at 2020, he took on the role of coach at Génération foot and responsible for pre-training, still in Senegal. Since 2020, he is a video analyst and individual and collective statistics at Fath Union Sport in Rabat, Morocco.

He acted as a video analyst for the National Selection of the Comoros during the CAN 2021 in Cameroon and he is currently a member of the technical staff of the National Selection of Mauritania as Assistant in charge of game analysis.

Damien TOLOMISSI