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Francisco Seirul·lo Vargas

Great teacher of teachers in all sciences of physical education, sport training and adjuvant training.

He was born in 1945 and since he was 6 years old to the youth practiced and competed in athletics, basketball and soccer (Ademar's club and teams). After, he was specialized in athletics of highly level, compiting in 100 m., 200 m. and 400 m. hurdles as athlete of the Sports Union Salamanca and of the University of Madrid (junior champion of Spain in 200 m. and bronze medal in 400 m. hurdles in the Spanish university championships). During the years of university studies in the INEF (university of human movement science) of Madrid practiced and competed in all kind of sports, pointing out the athletics and the duel and combat sports.

Professor Francisco Seirul·lo Vargas is Physical Education graduate and National Coach of Athletics. After working as a Techinical Director of the Physical Education Services in the University of Salamanca, he has mainly developed his teaching activities in the INEFC of Barcelona, where he has been Director and chief of the graduate studies in two occasions. As a chief of graduate studies and head of the Physical Education department has been responsible for the development of the main programs of Fundamentals of Human Movement, Theory and Practice of Physical Education, Theory and Practice of Sport Training, and Initiation-Development Processes of Human Movement and Sports as an specific learning.

He has been professor of different subjects in the Movement Science University of Barcelona (INEFC) and has collaborated with various professors by teaching special advanced programs on basketball, handball, soccer, volleyball, rugby and athletics. He taught diverse Postgraduate and Doctorate courses. Likewise, he has been professor at the Master of Sports High Performance of the Spanish Olympic Committee and at the Professional School of Medicine of Physical Education and Sport. Besides, he was professor at the coach courses of the National Federations of athletics (10 years), handball, basketball, volleyball, judo and tennis.

For more than 30 years, professor Francisco Seirul-lo Vargas has applied his theories into practice as a coach of the Spanish athletics (responsible of Jump athletes during an Olympic cicle), handball and judo teams in several World Championships and the Olympic Games of Montreal (Judo). He also trained tennis players for the international professional circuit and for the Barcelona Olympic Games. On the other hand, he has coached high level boxers and cyclists. During the decades of the 80 and 90 he was physical conditioning coach / technical-tactical advisor of the F.C. Barcelona handball team and he built together with the coach Valero Rivera –student of professor Seirul-lo- all the training structure that permitted this team to obtain the best international results that a sports team has never obtained in all the history. Also, he has been physical conditioning coach and advisor coach of the soccer and handball junior teams of the club. Since 1994, he is the physical conditioning coach of the first soccer team of the F.C. Barcelona and Director of the Technical Commission responsible for the physical conditioning preparation of all the professional sport teams of the club. In the field of soccer he has worked with coaches such as Luís Aragonés, Johan Cruyff, Bobby Robson, Carles Rexach, Llorenç Serra Ferrer, Louis van Gaal, Radomir Antic and Frank Rijkaar. With the Barcelona Handball team he has obtained 8 leagues, 6 cups of the King, 3 re-cupes of Europe, 3 European cups, and 1 super-cup of Europe. With the Barcelona Soccer team has obtained 5 leagues, 2 cups of the King, 4 super-cupes of Spain, 1 super-cup of Europe, 2 re-cupes of Europe and 1 European cup. Physical conditioning coach of the Spanish handball team in the World Handball Championship 2009, Croatia. In May of 2006 became the unique coach in obtaining an historical double: to win the European Cup in football and handball. An in May 2009 achieved an historical triple win with the F.C. Barcelona football team: League, King's Cup and UEFA Champions League Trophy.

Likewise he has outstanding experiences in the field of physical education and of the sports initiation. Thus, by the decade of the 80, he was the responsible of a detailed study and exchange with the best European schools of sport initiation (basics of the disappeared D.D.R.German Democratic Republic, complemented with applications of the schools from Russia, France and Italy), in order to elaborate a thorough summary that would allow coordinate and participate in the creation and practical development of the  C.I.D. Centers of Sport Initiation which were a very prestigious international reference.

In the  field of the adjuvant training, already from his beginning into track and field, he has integrated knowledge of medicine, movement rehabilitation, movement education and sport training in order to solve exceptionally and efficiently the injures of many athletes. As an significant example of adjuvant training we emphasize the excellent work of prevention and recovery of injuries that interdisciplinary developed with the medical and technical group of the FC Barcelona handball team during more than one decade. Besides, since then, he has advised, always with his characteristic mastery and efficacy, to many other coaches and conditioning coaches in solving injury prevention situations and the injuries of the athletes they train.

Professor Seirul-lo has given more than 50 courses in different Spanish cities, as well as in other countries as Portugal, France and Italy. He was founder and director of a Sports Training magazine and a Physical Education magazine. He has published numerous articles in review journals, books for the National School of Athletics Coaches and for the Master of Sports High Performance; as well as diverse documents for the magazine “Pedagogical Technical Notebooks” (INEF-GALICIA).

From the middle of the 80, he is developing a new theory of training for team and interaction sports, based on the dynamic systems theory, that has been contrasted and applied to his training experiences with high level athletes.
He is often invited as a lecturer in international congresses and in the university he teaches several advanced courses on physical education, sports training and adjuvant training.

On May 27, 2008 Professor Seirul·lo was honoured with the Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Mention by the Superior Council of Sports, in recognition of his contribution to the development of sport.

Nowadays, besides his professional activity in the F.C.Barcelona, in the Movement Science Institute (Barcelona University) and as professor director of the Master on High Performance in Team Sports, he is also a scientific advisor of the International Sport Training Services EEB-Entrenament Esportiu Barcelona.

His extraordinary passion and love for the science of the human movement, in addition to his humility of wise, makes that the profesor Paco Seirul·lo always shows an espcial predisposition to help and to assess his students and former-students.

 



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