DOSSIER TOCBALL BY XAVI HERNÁNDEZ
www.tocball.com
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION 2. XAVI´S LEGACY 3. PRODUCT 4. BENEFITS 5. PACKAGING 6. ABOUT US
1. INTRODUCTION
All projects come from an idea and Tocball is not an exception. After observing the most frequent technical problems that football players nowadays suffer and taking into account all existing limitations to practise this sport, our aim was offering a product that could enable every age and level player to practise in any place, not requiring a lot of space or other playing partners. Overall, a very useful product. At present, all football exercises that can be done with a ball, not needing a partner (ability in kicking the ball not letting it fall down on the floor) have no applicability during a football match. Using Tocball, players can improve real game elements such as ball control and passing.
The germ of any idea is important, but the person who is in charge of evolving it is essential. Counting Xavi Hernández on the project of Tocball has a priceless value. There is nobody better than him to develop a product that can help young people to dominate areas of the play that Xavi masters, the best example of how relevant technical knowledge is in professional football.
After several months of work to enhance the product, we are ready to present Tocball, a training tool for football players that has been designed to help them in their relationship with the ball and at the same part taking part in a funny and entertaining methodology for young people, learning through oneself´s experience and essential movement repetition such as control and passing.
2. XAVI HERNÁNDEZ´S LEGACY
Xavi Hernández Creus (born on 25th January 1980 Terrassa, Barcelona) is the football player who has won more competitions in the Spanish football history. To the 25 won trophys playing in the FC Barcelona (4 UEFA Champions League, 2 Club World Cups, 8 Spanish football Leagues, 3 King´s Cups, 2 European Super Cups and 6 Spanish Super Cups), we have to add 2 European Cups won while playing in the Spain national football team and also South Affrica FIFA World Cup in 2010. On the whole, 28 trophys that are the result of a successful, full of victories career. But Xavi Hernández´s legacy goes beyond all these things and more important than numbers, he shows us how he has achieved all these goals. His determination to be a main player in the match in the use of the ball and the perfection shown while playing football are the most characteristic traits of his extended career and the path that was chosen by a born winner like him to dominate world football for so many years.
For all mentioned above, Tocball could not have chosen a better public image than Xavi Hernández, a football player who excels in the domination of ball passing and control. He is the best example of how relevant these two actions are in the game. Without powerful physical qualities, not as the biggest part of football players who belong to the elite group in our sport, Xavi always used his technical knowledge to survive and control matches as he wanted. To reach this point, Xavi spent many hours in his learning stage working on his control and passing, two qualities that now are easier to improve using Tocball.
Since last summer, Xavi Hernández keeps on enjoying in Al-Saad football team, the Qatari team he plays for every weekend. Moreover, Xavi nowadays combines his football career with his preparation for a related to football future but outside the playing fields.
3. PRODUCT
Tocball is mainly composed by 3 parts. In the first place, (1) a round base, of 400 mm diameter measure, which works as a support. To the center of the base a unique piece is attached, (2) an undulated side bar that joins the base (3) with the ball. A simple stucture that can also be transported unassembled to raise confort.
This way, players can kick the ball and it always returns to the user´s position, in order to perform a new action with the ball. The final result enables us to obtain a product that can be used to work in a very reduced surface.
Moreover, the product design allows us to test if our movement is correct or not. If our technical gesture is inadequate, the ball will not come back to our position in a neat and round way. The touching contact point with the ball, the performing speed and the part of the foot that is used to touch the ball are the three elements that will influence in the ball trajectory. If our movement is perfect, the ball will not come back to us without interrupting its turning and movement. Just like that, players can always evaluate if their technical action is suitable.
4. BENEFITS
In the practice of football, the two most frequent actions , overall in the beginner stage and base football are control and ball passing. Without a perfect performance in these two technical movements, it is really complicated to evolve and enjoy the game. Taking into account these considerations, we have separated the main benefits of training with Tocball in three different parts.
1. Improvement in passing precisión
Passing is the most repeated action in base football matches, when dominated, it allows young players to enjoy matches more. Using Tocball, as we have mentioned before, the mechanism obliges us to perform the passing action in a correct way if we want the ball to return to us easily. To get this, Tocball will help us to improve our body position while kicking he ball, with flexed legs and a low gravity center.
2. Improvement in control quality
Control and passing are two actions that go together. An adequate control makes the passing action easier. All elite players dominate passing and control. Using Tocball, we can practise different types of control and adjust difficulty to our level: the bigger speed while kicking the ball, the more difficult posterior ball control.
3. Learning how to use both legs and all surfaces
One of the most desired qualities in a young football player is being able to kick the ball using both legs. Football schools spend few time developing this skill, but appreciate players who are able to do it. Tocball is the perfect tool to improve the use of the weak leg. It can also help us to practise kicking in all surfaces, so football player´s resources increase.
5. PACKAGING
One of the biggest advantadges of Tocball is that it can be transported any place you want. All explained benefits fit into this practical briefcase that measures 50x40x10 (measured in cm). We can find inside the product separated in the three mentioned above parts: the base, the undulated bar and the ball.
6. ABOUT US
One of the guarantees Tocball can ofter to football players is that it is a working tool that has been developed by professional football people. The working team who have created the product is completely directed by people who have experience in sport training.
To Xavi Hernández´s labor – the best developer Tocball could have- we have to add the value of two outstanding professional persons who own a more than demonstrable worth in the world of football. After a football career playing in CE Europe and United States universitary football (Withrop University), Àlex Isern coordinates now (apart from other projects) all FC Barcelona Camps. To his work as a football player,we have to add his experience in instructing young players.
Andrés Manzano has an all life experience related to the world of football. He took profit of his career as a football player to gain experience and, at present, he is the general director of UE Cornellà, one of the clubs that is increasing at a higher speed in Spain. The instruction of countless players who are now in the European football elite group is the perfect guarantee about his knowledge on formative football.