Join our exclusive webinar - Decoding the Football Players' Psychological Profile
Discover how Personality, Cognition & AI, combined with existing tools, can help build winning teams in Football.
📅 Date & Time: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 | 16:00 – 17:00 CET
📍 Location: Online
🗣 Language: English
How Can Football Clubs Use Psychological Profiling to Build Stronger Teams?
Elite football players think fast, adapt under pressure, and make disciplined decisions. But how do you measure their Psychological Profile, and how can they be used to gain a competitive edge throughout the talent process?
Join us for a practical and actionable webinar where we bridge cutting-edge cognitive science, AI-driven analytics and hands on application to optimize player development, scouting, and performance management.
You’ll hear from leading experts in neuroscience, talent scouts, coaches and analysts on how new profiling tools can translate scientific insights into concrete actions and winning strategies for clubs, coaches, and talent scouts.
Learn from the world’s largest study on elite footballers psychological profile
Get the highlights from a comprehensive international study recently published, that confirms and strengthens previous findings about the cognitive abilities of elite football players, also adding personality & AI. This is the most extensive study to date on the psychological profile of elite football players and is the result of close collaboration between universities in Oxford, Aarhus, Bologna, CQ University Australia, Rio de Janeiro State University, and Karolinska Institutet. It shows elite footballers as a group has a very distinct personality- as well as cognitive profile. Read about the study here.
What You Will Learn
✔ What truly sets elite players apart – New evidence-based findings on cognition & personality in football.
✔ Practical application in coaching & player development – Real use cases.
✔ Psychological data in sport analytics – Combining psych data with statistics will lift analytics to the next level.
✔ Psychological profiling in practice – Powerful yet easy to apply.
Speakers
- Predrag Petrovic (Cognitive Neuroscientist & Co-founder, Capacio) – The Psychological Profile of Elite Football players and how AI can be used to identify them
- Jesper Jansson (Sport director/recruitment/transfers) – Use-case; How data-driven psychological insights impacts scouting & transfers
- Staffan Olsson (Netherlands National Team Coach & Handball Legend) – Use-case; Practical application in relation building, individual coaching and team building related to European & World championships
- Jens Fjellström (Football pundit, analyst and former assistant coach at The Matildas) – The role & impact of psychological profiling & data in modern football
- Alex Jorge (Head of data, Playmaker AI) – How game state statistical analysis can reveal individual- and team performance under pressure and even further strengthened by adding psychological data
- Anders Norén (CEO & Co-founder, Capacio) – A platform for psychological profiling and immediate application
Who Should Attend?
🏆 Coaches & Talent Developers – Personalize training based on cognitive insights
⚽ Sport Directors & Scouts – Improve recruitment and support with data-driven psychology
📊 Analysts – Use AI and combine psychological data with other data to enhance football analytics
🧠 Sport Psychologists & Mental Coaches – Sharper assessment and basis for individualized support
📈 Club Executives & Agents – Make better decisions based on a deeper understanding of your assets
Don’t Miss Out – Secure Your Spot and register now to gain exclusive insights on how combining footballers psychological profile with analytics will shape the future of football.
Capacio's co-founder Predrag Petrovic interviewed by Sveriges Radio about the role Cognitive abilities play in Football
Capacio’s co-founder, Associate Professor, Senior Physician and psychiatrist Predrag Petrovic, was interviewed on Radiosporten, Sveriges Radio, about a major research study that has just been published. This study is the culmination of 15 years of research and provides the most comprehensive findings to date.
In the interview, Predrag explains that the key insight from the study is the crucial role of cognition in becoming a great football player. Physical ability and ball control alone are not enough—cognitive skills that enable players to process and regulate information about what happens on the field are just as important.
🎧 Listen to the interview here
(Article is in swedish)
Measuring the Mind – The Future of Team Building in Sports
What if recruiting and coaching elite athletes wasn’t just about physical performance and match stats—but also about cognitive abilities and personality traits?
A new international study featured by Capacio confirmes and strengthens that elite football players excel in discipline, adaptability, quick thinking, and resilience—traits that can be measured and leveraged in talent scouting and team development.
This was exactly the topic of discussion in Sporthuset, where Lasse Granqvist, Tommy Åström, and Jens Fjellström explored how clubs can integrate psychological profiling into recruitment and coaching strategies.
🎧 Listen to the full discussion in Sporthuset:
Podcast Episode 488 – Fjellström’s Future Team
(Podcast is in swedish)
📖 Read more about the study and its implications for football scouting:
Capacio’s Study on Elite Football Players
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