Mario Fernández Osorio is a Level III football coach with over seven years of experience in Madrid grassroots football. He has led teams at C.D. San Roque E.F.F. and A.D. Torrejón C.F. across categories ranging from U11 to U19, achieving four promotions and three international titles with the PROVIMAD C.F. selection. In addition to his coaching work, he has served as an analyst at Getafe C.F., giving him a unique perspective that combines on-the-pitch vision with data analysis. With a degree in Computer Engineering from UOC and a Higher Diploma in Multiplatform Application Development, he bridges technical football knowledge with modern digital tools.
Professional experience
2021 – 2025
Head Coach
A.D. Torrejón C.F.
Four seasons coaching teams across U12, U11, U16, and U19 categories. Three promotions: U11 A to Regional (2022/23), U16 A to Superliga (2022/23), and U19 C to Regional (2023/24).
2021 – 2022
Sports Analyst
Getafe C.F.
Tactical and performance analysis for the U19 C team in the Regional category. Match report preparation and opponent scouting.
2018 – 2021
Head Coach
C.D. San Roque E.F.F.
Three seasons coaching U11 teams, reaching the Regional First Division with the U11 A. Promotion to Preferente with the U11 B team in the 2019/20 season.
Education
Level 3 Sports Coach – National Coach Qualification
Real Federación Española de Fútbol · 2023
Degree in Computer Engineering
UOC – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya ·
HND in Multiplatform Application Development
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Mario's articles
How Much Does a Soccer Coach Make?
The answer varies enormously by level, country and experience. This article covers rough orientation ranges and what actually drives a coach's salary.
Free Soccer Video Analysis Software
Professional video analysis comes at a cost most amateur teams can't justify. Here's what you can actually do for free, and where the real limits are.
Youth Soccer Practice Plans (Templates)
A practice plan template saves real time every week — but only if it adapts to your group in minutes, not hours. This guide explains how.
Youth Soccer Drills: A Complete Library by Age
A good drill isn't good in the abstract: it depends on age, level and the day's objective. This guide explains how to choose and organise your own drill library.
Youth Soccer Recruitment Software
Youth recruitment is rarely a formal process: it usually depends on one person, their contacts and their memory. This guide explains how to structure it better.
Soccer Player Evaluation Form
A well-designed evaluation form turns an opinion into comparable data. This guide explains what it should include and how to score it objectively.
Soccer Training Curriculum: How to Build One
A training curriculum is what turns a club's philosophy into something every coach can apply the same way, age group after age group.
Women's Soccer Coaching App
Women's football doesn't need an "adapted" app: it needs the same planning, tactics board and management tools as any other team.
How to Write a Soccer Scouting Report
A good scouting report isn't a list of loose impressions: it's a structured document anyone at the club can read and understand without having seen the player.
How to Analyze Soccer Pressing
Pressing gets a lot of training time and very little analysis. Without minimal indicators, it's impossible to know whether your team's pressing is working or just exhausting the players.
Soccer Heat Map Analysis Explained
The heat map is one of the most shared images in modern football — and one of the most misread. This guide explains what it actually shows, and what it doesn't.
Soccer Opponent Analysis: How to Do It
Preparing for a specific opponent shouldn't rely only on what you remember from the last time you played them. This guide explains how to structure opponent analysis.
Free Soccer Scouting Software: 2026 Comparison
Before paying for scouting software, it helps to know what you can already do for free with public tools — and when they stop being enough.
Soccer Set-Piece Analysis
In grassroots and amateur football, set pieces decide more matches than they get credit for, and yet almost nobody analyses them systematically. This guide explains how to start.
Soccer Transition Training: A Practical Guide
The most decisive goals are often born in the five seconds after winning or losing the ball. And yet few grassroots teams train transitions deliberately.
Annual Soccer Training Plan
A season plan looks week by week. An annual plan looks at the full twelve months, including pre-season and rest. This guide explains the difference and how to build one.
Soccer Goalkeeper Training App
Goalkeepers need a different training plan from the rest of the team, but very few grassroots clubs have a formal process to design it. This guide explains how.
How to Create a Soccer Training Plan
A well-built training plan starts before you think about drills: it starts with the objective and the team's real context. This guide covers the full process.
Soccer Player Wellbeing App: What to Look For
Overtraining doesn't announce itself with an injury — it announces itself before that: worse sleep, low mood, heavy legs. Catching it early depends on asking, not guessing.
Soccer Training Load Management: A Coach's Guide
Managing training load isn't just for pro clubs with GPS. With a simple method, any coach can know whether their team is training just enough, too much, or too little.
How to Evaluate Soccer Players: A Practical Guide
Evaluating a player well isn't filling in a memory-based score out of ten. This guide explains what to look for, how to structure the evaluation, and the most common mistakes coaches make.
What Is RPE in Soccer? A Practical Guide
RPE is the most accessible load-monitoring tool there is: no GPS, no heart-rate monitor — just one well-asked question at the end of every session.
How to Prevent Soccer Injuries: A Coach's Guide
Most muscle injuries in amateur football are not bad luck: they are the result of poorly managed load spikes. This guide explains how to reduce risk without needing a medical department.
Individual Development Plan (IDP) for Soccer Players
"I think they've improved" is not a development plan. This guide explains how to turn player progress into a documented process with goals, tracking and review.
Best Soccer Coaching App: 2026 Comparison
There are dozens of apps for soccer coaches and none of them do exactly the same thing. This comparison explains what the best option needs and how to choose based on what you actually need.
How to Avoid WhatsApp Groups for Your Soccer Team
Call-ups lost among memes, parents messaging at eleven at night, forwarded messages with no context. Here is how a club can move on from the WhatsApp group without losing closeness.
Best AI Soccer Coaching App: 2026 Comparison
More and more apps claim to use artificial intelligence for soccer. This comparison explains what to evaluate before choosing one and how NeoTactIQ compares to the alternatives.
TacticalPad Alternative: Full Comparison
TacticalPad is a world reference for tactics boards, but it only does one thing. If you want a board connected to real team management, this comparison will help you decide.
Artificial Intelligence in Soccer Training: A Practical Guide
Artificial intelligence is no longer science fiction in grassroots football: it generates sessions, answers methodology questions and frees up hours of admin work. This guide explains what it can do today and how to start using it.
How to structure the weekly microcycle in football: a practical guide for coaches
The weekly microcycle is the coach's basic planning unit. Learn how to distribute workloads, what to train each day, and how to digitize the entire process.
From Excel to software: modernizing data management in grassroots football
Most grassroots football clubs manage their information with spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups. There is a better way, and you don't need to be a professional club to adopt it.
Communication with families in football academies: best practices and tools
Communication with families is one of the biggest sources of tension in any football academy. A clear, well-structured process supported by the right tools can transform the relationship entirely.
The KPIs every sporting director must track in their football club
Without data, there is no sporting direction: there is intuition-based management. These are the key indicators that distinguish a growing club from a stagnant one.
Season planning in football: complete guide for coordinators and coaches
A well-planned season does not start in August: it starts in May. This guide covers the entire process, from analysing the previous season to setting objectives and periodisation.
Digital scouting: how to modernise talent recruitment in your club
Traditional scouting, based on paper notes and the scout's memory, is running out of time. Clubs that have already made the leap to digital scouting identify talent faster and more effectively. Here is the path.
Match analysis in amateur football: where to start without getting lost
Match analysis is not just for professional clubs. There is an accessible, practical version of match analysis for grassroots and amateur football that any coach can implement today.
Your club's knowledge shouldn't leave when the coach does
Every time a coach leaves the club, they take with them years of accumulated learning about players, methodology, and processes. This does not have to be the case.
Financial management in semi-professional clubs: common mistakes and how to avoid them
Finance is the Achilles heel of most semi-professional clubs. Not for lack of money, but for lack of control and visibility. Here are the most common mistakes we see and how to fix them.
Sports coordination: how to align all your club's teams around a shared playing philosophy
Having ten teams at a club does not mean having a club with ten teams. Sports coordination is what transforms a collection of teams into a project with its own identity.