Unai Emery's Secrets

Unai Emery, in the 2020/2021 season, rewrote his name in the UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE history by winning it for the 4th time. After 3 consecutive wins at the service of Seville FC and a final lost when coaching Arsenal, last season the Spanish coach won the competition again, showing the football community the ability and strategic sense he deploys in his teams. In this work, we will present:

• Game idea by Unai Emery;
• Our analysis of Unai Emery’s Game Model as Villarreal’s coach;
• Training methodology based on a microcycle planning;
• Train the match we want to play (analysis of the training session on the eve of the UEFA EUROPE LEAGUE final and link between the strategy for the fixture in the training session and its match deployment);
• Emery’s winning method used in managing his teams;
• Proposals for solving leadership dilemmas.