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THE THURSDAY INTERVIEW: DARLAN SCHNEIDER
Posted on: Thu 02 Oct 2008
Continuing the series of introductions to Felipe Scolari's staff, today
chelseafc.com meets our first team fitness coach.
Darlan Schneider slid his lunch to the side and relaxed easily into his
chair at the Chelsea training complex in Cobham. The new fitness coach
amiably postponed his meal of salad, artichokes and chicken to talk about
his past, his route to Chelsea and his productive relationship with
manager Felipe Scolari.
Darlan has worked intermittently with Scolari since first joining forces
during the current boss's stint in the Middle East in 1989. Having
ploughed his own furrow in his native Brazil with Sao Paulo, he was
eventually reunited with Scolari at Cruziero in 2000 after which they have
remained resolutely together, a relationship that can only benefit the
Blues.
'Now we are together eight years and I know what kind of training he wants,
he needs and I know his personality better now, it's good,' Darlan begins.
'I arrived at Chelsea with my ideas and of course you need to have a
second plan. I tried to put my ideas this way but if the players did not
accept this well, I would need to change but the players accepted it, they
liked it. They train hard and very well and I'm happy.'
With another international break next week due to leave just a handful of
first team players at Cobham, Darlan is the first to appreciate the
reverse side of the coin having plied his trade in international football
for five of those last eight years.
'We understand the situation because before we were in the national team
of Portugal and it was the same, we had players for just 10 days when we
had two games and now we are on the other side.
'But it is difficult because you need to train and you have some kind of
work [to do], but you only have five or six players and we need to train
together. We have the reserve team though so it is possible to do some
technical training.'
The best
However, with a positive pre-season and a solid opening to the campaign
under his belt, and the facilities at Cobham being of the highest
standard, Darlan realises that he has all he needs to get his players to
peak physical condition, even with the run of international interruptions.
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Schneider keeps watch
'We have fantastic facilities. All we need we have here; many people to
help us, to support us. We have all the data, everything we want to know
about any player, we have here. This is very good for us.
'Before with the Portugal national team and when I was working in Brazil
they have many good facilities, but Chelsea is the best, better than we
worked before.'
This international and global past has given Darlan a rounded perspective
on current trends on the scientific and technical aspects of the game.
Indeed, as a member of the senior coaching staff for the Portuguese
national side, he did not limit himself to the fitness role, especially
when the members of the senior squad were back at their clubs:
'We went to see many games, to see who was playing better, who was staying
fit for the next qualification and there were many programmes. We gave
support to Under 21s and others.'
Darlan thus has a wider take on his role as a fitness coach having had
experience scouting players and, importantly at a club like Chelsea,
working and developing youth strategy.
Although the Brazilian footballing culture seems completely different to
that of the Premier League, his experiences in Portugal introduced him to
aspects of the European game.
'In Portugal we needed to change something because it was a little bit
different to Brazil, and after five years there we know European football,
European players and we had to change something there. Here, it's a little
bit different again but not too much and we change some things to adapt
but not much.'
Innovation
Having played football until the Under 18 stage, Darlan sacrificed the
game in order to pursue a degree in Sports Science. A keen student of the
technicalities of the game, he has even deployed training analysis which
requires players to wear a GPS (Global Positioning System) harness
(pictured below) to monitor their movement around the pitch.
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Schneider harnesses Alex to GPS
'Compared with 10 years ago, I think the science helps us so much. Because
we have so many controls about the training, about the players, about
everything and this is very good. We need to grow up together, science,
football and fitness.
'It's the first time I work with GPS. I know before about GPS, how it
helps, but in the Portugal national team it was difficult to work with GPS
because we didn't have the time.
'The players arrive there two or three days, or maximum one week before
the game so it was difficult. But it was a very good option to work with
GPS and heart rate. It's very good because you have information about all
training?it's very nice!' he decides.
A man of innovation, then. And one not daunted by the singularly physical
demands of the Premier League. Hopefully progression in the domestic cups
and in Europe will present Chelsea with more that 60 games this season, a
haul that many a former international coach would find a shock. But Darlan
has seen it all before:
'In Brazil we play more than 60. With Gremio and Cruziero, I'm not sure,
but I think we played 70 or 75 games in one season. And in Gremio, one
year, we played 82 or 83 games.
'No, no this is not new for us; we are not surprised by this.'
Chelsea fans can rest easy, then. In an increasingly cosmopolitan and
global game, the cerebral Schneider, with experience drawn from Kuwait to
Cruziero, has both the knowledge and facilities to physically sustain a
Chelsea challenge in a league which, by his own admission, has a unique
tempo:
'Non-stop during the game, the referees look to play more and don't stop
the game at any time, I think it's more quick.'
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The Brazilian triumvirate
Whatever the challenges of the Premier League, Darlan appears to be a man
capable of coping, open to adaptation but certainly under his own terms.
As an integral third of the new Brazilian triumvirate alongside Scolari
and Murtosa, with fresh input from Ray Wilkins, Darlan has all the
qualities to keep Chelsea running, and running hard, towards silverware.
By Dominic Moger.
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