Debrecen VSC grows alongside the Yellows thanks to working together in academy methodology

Villarreal CF and Hungarian club Debrecen VSC have a first class training agreement (CVF Pro) whereby the Hungarian club’s professionals learn from the Submarine’s knowledge. A committee of coaches and players from Debrecen spent a whole week in Vila-real with the aim of acquiring new skills in a more intensive way in their 360º training plan.

“Over the last year, Villarreal’s coaches have been with us and we have gained information about how they work here through many meetings, not only about technique or tactics, but also about organisation because our academy is one of the best in Hungary and we can do even better,” confesses András Herczeg, director of the academy, located in the second most populated city in the country, just behind Budapest.

For the Hungarian side, “it’s a pleasure to work with Villarreal’s coaches,” says Herczeg, who adds that the Spanish team “are showing us a lot of new things, most of them related to the methodology programmes for coaches in Debrecen. It is also a pleasure to be here visiting the facilities, training and playing against the youth teams. The coaches are also enjoying watching the training sessions, having meetings and leaving with new information from the academy coaches.”

Global growth

Besides methodology and football concepts ‘made in Miralcamp’, in Debrecen they learn everything about how a professional academy works from Yellows coaches who are based in Hungary: “One of the best examples, which I think shows one of the most important changes for their club is to think about how they have to behave with the players and give them feedback, how to lead them. All the teams have grown because all the head coach see each other as equals, there is no head coach. That has been a big improvement, but I would also highlight the treatment of the other departments towards the player. All the players think that this has changed and they trust us”, says Álex Viña, one of the coaches from Villarreal who accompanies them in this process. Viña explains that they also teach them “how the rest of the departments work in our club to be able to give them more tools and more effective tools for their young talents.”

On the other hand, Herczeg also highlights the work of the club’s medical services and psychology department, with whom they were also impressed. One of the players who had the opportunity to experience this week at the José Manuel Llaneza Training Ground, Szakál Dénes, agrees with his mentor: “They help both players and coaches to improve individually and they focus on that and take care of us”, but he believes that the best part of his stay here “are the training sessions because the sensations and the environment are spectacular.”

The guests from Debrecen were able to attend the match between the Submarine and Rayo Vallecano at the Estadio de la Cerámica to complete their stay in La Plana Baixa and experience, for the first time for some of them, a LaLiga match, which they consider to be the best regular competition in the world. “It is obvious that Spanish football is the best in the world and we are very happy to learn from the boys here because the level is very high,” Herczeg underlined.

DVSC is the first foreign club to join the Villarreal family through this CVF Pro agreement that involves such a complete consultation service.