Interview / Gérard Bougeard - EthicSports
“Your EthicSports team designed and markets the In-Tactic sports strategy software. Describe the In-Tactic and EthicSports adventure? "
"At the outset, there was collaboration between Christian Gourcuff, a professional trainer, renowned for his tactical requirements, and a team of computer scientists from the world center of excellence in the Rennes basin (15,000 technicians and computer engineers)."
Advised by Christian Gourcuff, the In-Tactic team has been able to develop a very visual, efficient, fast and simple software which allows to bring together the envisaged game tactics and the positions of each player.
Christian Gourcuff: "The blackboard does not allow you to express all the feelings, the game is space time, it is a question of movement, mobility. Computers allow you to transcribe this. The interest is to model all the tactical aspects, all the game situations which will be formalized and presented to the players via the software. In-Tactic is coupled with video, which is very interesting for reviewing matches and allows you to explain an exercise to a group of players before entering the field. Players need diagrams, simplified situations, and this animation and video software is a great tool. "
In-Tactic is coupled with video, which is very interesting for reviewing matches and allows you to explain an exercise to a group of players before entering the field. Players need diagrams, simplified situations, and this animation and video software is a great tool. "
"You aspire to be The software of coaches / educators in the world of Football, how do you intend to achieve it? "
“In the simplest way in the world, by offering the best tool and the best content to our users. We have already initiated a level 1 partnership with the FFF: at the end of 2014, 270 Technical Advisers from the National Technical Department (DTN) are operational on the In-Tactic tool and will allow the “homogeneous” constitution of '' a FFF database of animated exercises. We also interviewed our prospects: many wish to have a library of relevant exercises, ready to use but adaptable by themselves to their level and their players. Everything then becomes clear for EthicSports: let's give them content, the best content. ”
“Renowned coaches agree to digitize their sessions in the form of In-Tactic packs, what is their motivation? "
“Spontaneously, pass on their experience to the thousands of trainers / educators in the world of football. In-Tactic allows it, it is a new medium at their disposal and a great educational tool to communicate with its players. No more paper, long live tablets and smartphones.
We worked in 2012 with Daniel Jeandupeux on the creation of relevant packs based on the experience of training. No more exercises sold on the fly, isolated from their context and difficult to integrate into reality. No more pages of books filled with arrows, static diagrams and difficult to use.
Today we only offer complete sessions actually carried out by a trainer (a week, a theme, a program, a football school, etc.), with in each of these sessions, exercises led via the In-Tactic tool . Each pack offers tailor-made planning of these sessions for the amateur world according to its rhythm (two, three, four or five training sessions per week).
These renowned coaches join our project. They are full of ideas and a desire to transfer their know-how. They have many sessions in paper form, it is easy for them to transpose the most relevant and fundamental in the form of packs. A few days are enough, nothing to do with making a book that is so time-consuming. To the delight of the end user!
To the delight of the end user! "
"Aren't you afraid of being copied or looted?"
"We have created an innovative “digital tattoo” system (copyright, proprietary license).Our digital exercises authorize their opening only to IN-TACTIC “decoder” software (editor, reader and player), associated with a license number.The authors' works are copy protected and we have the means to detect illegal copies.
This guarantee of protection was decisive in the arrival of the best coaches.Everything is in place to quickly build the "repository of animated football exercises for coaches".
Our ambition is on the scale of the tremendous development of football: global!We will translate our packs and exercises in English, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese,…
One hundred thousand coaches in France, as many in Italy, Spain, Germany,…, a million in China!