FDI Team

Founder of the Football Development Institute, also acting as CEO. Author of “Football Identity of FDI”, concept, projects and content related to the Institute. The complex concept of the FDI was based on its own football understanding as a sport, its own game understanding, and its own content structures within the “Football Level Identification Indicators”. Gabor’s individual path is a combination of an autonomous approach, strong convictions, and fifteen years of observation, analysis, work, defining knowledge, gathering experience, as well as creating original concepts and content-related mechanisms.

Marcin Gabor has been involved in professional football for more than a dozen years. He started as a journalist and football commentator, only to take a completely different direction a few years later. The direction of co-creating football. In 2010, he inaugurated his work in Clubs (including Cracovia, GKS Katowice, Miedź Legnica). Gabor has held various specialized roles: Coach, Coach Educator, Sports Director, Analyst. Conceptual Coach with a precisely defined Game Model and Work Model. Sports Director with an original vision for this role in terms of position profile and Club Development Model. For the past ten years he has been sharing his knowledge during his own seminars/webinars, UEFA coaching courses, conferences for Coaches, Sports Directors, Analysts (Poland, Germany, Austria, Spain). He has given guest lectures at the International Football Institute (Ismaning/Munich). Over the years he has trained and prepared Coaches, Sports Directors and Analysts individually, proudly being able to boast “alumni” currently working in professional football. He has written expert articles on football understanding, game understanding, tactics, Game Model, Club development, Coach’s and Sports Director’s work.

Marcin Gabor was professionally active for many years in Poland, and has been active in Germany and other European countries since 2017. He bases his work on strict content principles, an in-depth developed football philosophy, an individual “Football Identity” and absolute consistency. He defined the proprietary concepts. Here are some of them: Club Development Model; Sports Department Organization Model; Comprehensive Football Concept; Game Model; Methodical Model; Analytical Model; Complementary Team and Player Development Model; Sports Department Management Model; Specialist Management Model (e.g., Sports Director, Coach, Analyst): Profile, Work Model, Development System, Work Evaluation System, Recruitment System; Evaluation of Team and Player Development; “Complex Football Concept” Unification Model (Academy).

Since 2015, Marcin Gabor has supported Clubs in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, providing strategic advice and improving the football entities’ level of operation based on a self-developed program. The referred program covered ten areas: Club Management, Football Intellectual Foundations, Football & Management, Communication & Marketing, Finances, Legal & Licensing, Technology, Infrastructure, Psychology, Compliance & Integrity. In 2016, Marcin Gabor took over as Head of LIGEN.analytics at the German brand of the same name. He defined the “Contextual Analytics Concept”, designed a number of professional analytics products and solutions (team analysis, individual analysis in a team context, contextual analytics data, interactive online platform, analytics consulting), which are now used in Clubs across Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland and Spain. Gabor has built and conceptually prepared an analytics team of 120 people. He has worked with Bundesliga clubs or the German Football Association (DFB), among others.

The portfolio of football ventures managed by Marcin Gabor also includes the TrainerPRO brand. It had the character of an education and consulting company in the past, while since the transformation it has been engaged in providing intelligent tools for training, analytical and organizational work. At various stages, Gabor led two other football brands. KarrierePRO was a recruitment platform in the world of football, while ScoutingPRO operated as a scouting and analytics agency.

At the moment Marcin Gabor is using all of the above experiences for the benefit of the Football Development Institute. Over the next several years, he intends – on the basis of the Institute’s complex and complementary activities – to change the understanding of this sport, the game itself and raise the level of footbal in Europe.

Former football player.

As a player he appeared, among others, in the youth teams of Lech Poznań. A few years ago he began his adventure with projects managed by Marcin Gabor. In this way, he explores the knowledge of the correct football understanding. In 2016, he was invited by Marcin Gabor to work with a German analytics brand – LIGEN.analytics. In this way, he gathered several years of experience in the role of Tactical Analyst, performing analysis for men’s and women’s teams: from the youth level to the highest competition tiers. He also worked for two years in the role of Analysis Department Manager.

Then he was appointed by Marcin Gabor as Operations Manager at the Football Development Institute. Since then, he has been in charge within the organizational and administrative areas of FDI, leading a number of projects and being involved in numerous areas of the Institute’s development. At the same time, she supervises the analytical team as part of the “Analysis & Research” department, ensuring the proper execution of analyses for Clubs from Germany, Austria, Spain and France. In addition, he performs the duties of Analytics Educator, leading the Analytics Development System for the LIGEN.analytics project. He also participates in the development process of analytics products.

In his work, he relies on standards and knowledge beyond the commonly accepted patterns in football, striving to improve on past achievements and seek new solutions.

The person assisting Marcin Gabor’s projects for more than ten years. A specialist dealing with various aspects related to the day-to-day operations of the Football Development Institute. Anna Gabor’s responsibilities include supporting the Institute’s organizational activities and personnel as well as accounting matters. The profile of the position also covers coordinating and supervising the proper conduct through the process of building databases (CRM). In addition, important points of activity are the implementation of back-office projects, and the presentation of complementary offers to potentially interested parties.

A graduate of the Wroclaw University of Economics. Football has been in his life from an early age. After an early end to his active football adventure, he found his passion as a football scout. He gained knowledge at many courses and workshops. In the role of scout, he cooperated with Widzew Łódź, Zagłębie Sosnowiec or Chrobry Głogów. He eagerly participated in start-up projects on the football market. In the future, he would like to become a Sports Director at one of the leading clubs in Poland.

He believes that the Football Development Institute and “Football Identity of FDI” will lead to a breakthrough in European football and with his work he will contribute to the improvement of football quality.

Outside of football, a lover of travel, personal development and cooking.

A person completely dedicated to football, who for more than a dozen years has been getting to know and discovering it from different perspectives. Until 2015, he acted as a player, appearing in the team of Energetyk ROW Rybnik and Skra Częstochowa, among others.

He quickly decided to become a Coach, wanting to show an original and different perspective on football in his work. He has coaching experience behind him, leading senior teams (Gwarek Ornontowice) and youth teams (GKS Tychy, Zagłębie Lubin, Cracovia). A believer in offensive football, passionate about tactics, treating the team tactics as an overriding value.

For years, he has been associated with the person of Marcin Gabor, from whom he took his non-standard way of perceiving football and who influenced his education the most. He consistently expands his training knowledge, being faithful to his own football philosophy. Sebastian places the issue of game analysis very high in his training work and uses the analytical skills he acquired at FDI on a daily basis.

He completed his master’s degree in Physical Education in Opole, and has held a UEFA A coaching license since mid-2017.

Sebastian Szweda – fitting in with his way of thinking and approach to football in the “Football Identity of FDI” – supports the educational part of the project, as well as the process of performing tactical analysis.

A person connected with football from an early age. Initially as a player, then as a Coach. He works with FDI as a member of the “Analysis & Research” department. He performs tactical analysis for European Clubs and takes over researcher tasks.

The opportunity to work with Marcin Gabor resulted in looking at football as a really team-based game. Coach, for whom the implementation of the own playing concept is the most important aspect of this sport.

He has been involved as a coach with Elana Torun for a long time.

Interested in expanding knowledge, personal development and active lifestyle.