Recommended by professional football players, SenseBall is especially aimed at young players between 6 and 20 years of age. Training with SenseBall makes them two-footed and improves their football skills. SenseBall also improves the performance of all sportspeople for whom high-speed and precise leg movements are essential (basketball, tennis, skiing, handball…).
The principle of SenseBall is based on the concept of bilateral activity. Thanks to its specific design, online exercise videos and didactical program, a player practicing with SenseBall will make an average of 500,000 touches of the ball in a season.
In a training session, a player uses his left foot as many times as his right and moves through space in a balanced way left/right and backwards/forwards. Whether done individually or in a group (and so rhythmically), the football training ball SenseBall enables developing specific football skills, reacting quicker and improving in rhythm.
Sevilla FC : We use SenseBall first and foremost because we have proven that it works. We have carried out a very thorough study and the truth is that the results have been very positive.
Axel Witsel : « Even for me who is a pro, SenseBall allows to improve my ball mastery with both feet and accelerate my decision-making. I wish I had discovered it younger. The practice of SenseBall must be included in all football clubs. »
AC Milan : AC Milan have renewed their exclusive contract for Italy with CogiTraining-SenseBall for a third season. The spectacular progress enjoyed by their youth teams since working with the programme made this an easy choice.
Dries Mertens : « All the players were given a football on the end of a string with a handle, you had to hold the handle, juggle and kick the ball permanently with both feet. I am convinced I have mastered playing with both feet thanks to those exercises. »
R.S.C. Anderlecht : « The most important reason why RSC Anderlecht use SenseBall is that we want to create perfect two-footed players. Players love SenseBall and you can see the results every week on the pitch. »
Wesley Sneijder : « At the age of 7, like all the other young players at Ajax, I was given a football on the end of a string to practise with at home. “You must train every evening with both feet” the trainer would say, and that’s what I did. »
FC Metz : « Among the 7-12-year-old, it helps with coordination and motor skills. With the older players, it is used for synchronization, the collection of information. For me SenseBall must be part of the educational material of the educator. »
Luca Saudati : "At Technical Soccer Saudati, my technical football training school, we use SenseBall as a football training equipment because it allows players to improve coordination, technical aspects, and timing on the ball."
FC Lugano : The FC Lugano Academy has been practicing the CogiTraining & SenseBall method since Mid-2017 getting excellent results by its players from the technical, cognitive and also academic (school performance) point of view.
Faris Haroun : « SenseBall greatly helped me to become a professional footballer. When I started at Leuven Football Academy all I used my left foot for was to get on the bus. Today I can play with both feet equally well. »
Milan Ladies : SenseBall is an important equipment that improves coordination, rhythm, speed, etc., training both the physical and the mental part; and without any age limit.
Lee Bum-Young : Young goalkeepers will highly improve their soccer skills and grow into a goalkeeper that will fit right in modern football if they train their foot ball skills with SenseBall.
AS Génération Foot : Our players have been practicing SenseBall for 4 seasons. SenseBall is an excellent tool to improve its ball control and its weak foot.
Corrado Colombo : "I use SenseBall to teach my players concentration, coordination and to develop their technical skills using both feet."
AS : The revolutionary ball on a string arrives in Sevilla FC
The Herald Scotland : Rangers have unveiled a special home-based training programme for the club’s Academy players amid the domestic league shutdown.
Onze Mondial : SenseBall : When Belgium revolutionizes football training
South China Morning Post : ‘We can help make Xi Jinping’s dream come true’ – could this tool [SenseBall] unlock China’s World Cup ambitions?
Le Soir : This ball (associated with an online method and exercises) is now used in the youth academies of many Belgian (Anderlecht, Genk, Ostend, Charleroi ...) and international clubs (AC Milan, FC Metz, AS Monaco ...).
VTM Nieuws : Dries Mertens, but also former Golden Boot-winner Sven Kums, are fine examples of Belgian players who trained at a young age with SenseBall and currently still reap the rewards.
Le Soir : Applied for about seven years in Anderlecht football club, the method allowed the youth team to beat their English or Spanish comrades; future champions of the best clubs in the world.
CNN.com : AC Milan [...] is rethinking its youth organizational structure. To do so, they turned to [...] Michel Bruyninckx (the inventor of SenseBall - CogiTraining) to steer the club’s development of its young players.
Sports Illustrated : Geoff Noonan, coordinator at Fulham Academy for 7 to 11 year-old players, has decided to order 150 SenseBall. « SenseBall helps open the hips, it’s good for crosses, volleys, and to improve the player’s weaker foot. »
BBC Sport : When Germinal Beerschot attacking midfielder Faris Haroun began to train with Michel Bruyninckx, he couldn’t kick the ball with his left foot. Two years later, his club, Racing Genk, thought he was left-footed.
- 1 Perfect two-footed performance
- 2 Excellent command and control of the ball
- 3 Faster, more accurate passing
- 4 Improved perception and coordination
- 5 Forms correct body positions