YouCoach AI: The assistant at your methodology's service

If you've already used YouCoach App to manage your team, prepare training sessions, or track your players' data, know that you now have an intelligent assistant always available. YouCoach AI doesn't replace your vision — it enhances it. It handles the most repetitive operational work, organizes the information you already have on the platform, and gives you back time and clarity to do what only you can do: be with your players and make the right decisions at the right time.
What you'll find in this guide

YouCoach AI Features

YouCoach AI is not a generic chatbot. It knows your team, your schedule, your players' data, and the methodology you work with. It doesn't interpret, it doesn't decide, it doesn't replace your judgment: it provides you with the right information when you need it, structured to be immediately usable.

Season Planning

Generates macrocycles and microcycles with objectives, phases of play, and specific principles for your category.

Training Sessions

Create complete sessions in 10 seconds. The AI considers your players' age group, your seasonal plan, the day of the week, and the proximity to matches (for competitive age groups), available players, and current cycle objectives.

Drills and Diagrams

Describe a drill and the AI will structure it, save it, and create the diagram or animation for you.

Performance Analysis

Interprets sRPE and Hooper Index data, identifies risks, and optimizes recovery before the match.

Bio-banding

Query the AI on players' biological maturation status to create homogeneous groups.

Individual Plans

Create personalized plans for each player, considering age, physical condition, and objectives.


Feature 1

Plan the entire season with a prompt

Describe to the AI how you want to set up the season, the main objectives, the playing model you want to develop, and the category you work with, and in a few moments, you get a complete periodization plan, with macrocycles, microcycles, and detailed technical comments for each phase.

This is not a generic plan: the AI builds it considering the season's duration, the match schedule, and your team's specific characteristics.

Prompt example
"Plan an 8-month season for an Under 14 team. I want to develop possession-based play starting from the back, focusing on the defensive phase in the first two months. We have a match every Sunday."

 

 


Feature 2

Training sessions in 10 seconds

YouCoach AI knows the season plan, the methodology you work with, and your squad's players. You just need to specify the day and time of the session and the number of available players: you will get a complete session proposal, perfectly aligned with the microcycle objectives and recent workloads.

Prompt example
"Create a training session for tomorrow at 4:00 PM. Include the whole team, exclude Marco who is injured. I want to work on defensive transition."

Feature 3

Create and find drills faster

Generate drills by describing them in your own words. The AI identifies objectives, phases of play, number of players, and equipment, writes the complete description, and saves it to your personal database. You can also search through thousands of drills simply by stating what you are looking for and drag the drill directly into the desired training phase.

Prompt example
"High-intensity 4v4+3 Rondo in a 20x35 field divided into two zones. One 'jolly' (player) is positioned on the dividing line, the other two one in each zone. The team in possession must complete five passes before finding the through ball to the 'jolly' in the opposite zone."

Feature 4

Individual plans and evaluation sheets

YouCoach AI creates multi-week structured individual plans, with activities, evaluations, and sessions scheduled in the calendar. Evaluation sheets can be custom-built for role, technical objectives, personalized scales, in seconds.

Prompt example
"Create a 4-week individual plan for Davide. Focus on peripheral vision and first touch control. Schedule one individual session and one video analysis session per week. Add a technical evaluation sheet to be completed every Friday."

Feature 5

Performance Analysis: from data to decisions

If you use Training Load Monitoring to collect sRPE and Hooper Index data, YouCoach AI interprets it for you: it cross-references load data with anthropometric measurements and injury reports, and provides you with concrete operational insights on who to rest, who is at risk, and who is ready for the match.

Prompt example
"Analyze this week's sRPE and Hooper data. Identify players whose Hooper Score is increasing while their RPE remains high. Highlight the 3 players who most need a recovery day."
Prompt example
"Rank my players based on their readiness for the upcoming match."

Feature 6

Bio-banding: train based on biological maturation, not just age

One of the less visible problems in youth football is this: two players in the same category can have completely different biological ages. One is at the peak of their growth spurt, the other has already passed it by a year. Training them the same way, with the same loads and expectations, is not only ineffective, it can increase the risk of injuries and cause talents who mature more slowly to go unnoticed.

YouCoach AI can query your players' anthropometric data to help you understand their biological maturation stage and create more homogeneous working groups within the same team.

Why science confirms it

Bio-banding is the process of grouping athletes based on attributes associated with growth and biological maturation, rather than chronological age. The goal is to reduce temporary physical disparities to allow each player to express their true technical and tactical potential.

Research conducted at the Manchester United youth academy, commissioned by Alex Ferguson himself, analyzed 293 players aged 9 to 16, discovering that early-maturing boys were 20 times more likely to be selected and promoted than their late-developing peers. Masses of potential talents go unnoticed simply because their bodies develop at different rates.

Studies published in Strength & Conditioning Journal (Cumming et al., 2017) and research conducted with the Premier League and FIFA show that sessions organized according to bio-banding improve the learning experience for all players and can reduce the risk of injuries during peak growth. The FIGC, in collaboration with the MAPEI Sport Research Center, has also highlighted how biological maturation is one of the main predictors of game performance in young footballers.

Prompt example
"Analyze the anthropometric data of my Under 13 team and tell me which players are in the pre-peak, peak, and post-peak growth phases. Suggest how to divide them into homogeneous groups for this week's physical drills."
Prompt example
"I have two players from the same birth year who differ by 12 cm in height. How should I modulate the training load for each, considering their maturation status?"

Feature 7

Contextual individual plan: every player is unique

When you create an individual plan with YouCoach AI, the assistant doesn't work on a generic player. It works on that specific player, at that precise moment of the season. Each response considers a series of contextual factors that make the plan truly personalized:

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    Age group and category — technical-tactical objectives and proposed loads are adapted to the player's category (from U7 to First Team)
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    Health status — if the player is injured or in recovery, the AI structures the plan accordingly, with a progressive and safe return
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    Current physical condition — if the TLM module is active, the AI reads the latest sRPE and Hooper Index data to calibrate the proposed loads
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    Biological maturation — for youth sectors, available anthropometric data informs the plan's methodological choices
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    Session history — the AI knows the work already done in the season to ensure continuity and consistent progression
Prompt example
"Create a recovery plan for Alessandro, 14 years old, returning from an ankle sprain. The physiotherapist has cleared him for light running. 3 weekly sessions of 45 minutes for the next 3 weeks, with load progression."

How YouCoach AI Thinks

The context AI uses for each response

Every time you interact with YouCoach AI, the assistant doesn't reason in a vacuum. It considers a set of variables that make each response specific to your team and your current situation.

Team age group
Every proposal, session, drill, plan is calibrated to the category. What's right for an U10 isn't right for an U17.
Biological maturation
For youth sectors, the AI considers anthropometric data to account for developmental differences between players of the same birth year.
Health status
Active injuries, players in recovery, partial availability: the AI manages these automatically, excluding unsuitable loads or proposing alternative paths.
TLM physical status
If the TLM module is active, the AI reads recent sRPE and Hooper Index data to adapt the intensity and volume of each training proposal.

5 tips to get started

How to use YouCoach AI immediately

  • 1
    Start with season planning: it's the feature that saves you the most time and sets up all subsequent work coherently.
  • 2
    Try describing a drill you already use and see how the AI structures it; it's the quickest way to understand how to communicate with the assistant.
  • 3
    Use AI search to find drills instead of manually browsing the database: save time and discover exercises you might not have known.
  • 4
    If you use TLM, try asking for a summary of the team's physical status each week: it will become an integral part of your routine.
  • 5
    Be specific in your prompts: the more details you provide (category, number of players, available equipment, session objective), the more useful and accurate the response will be.

AI Credits

How credits work

Everything you need to know

Every YouCoach subscription plan includes a substantial number of AI credits. One credit allows you to create a training session, plan the season, ask a question, or request an analysis.

More complex processing, such as cross-referencing multiple data points, may require more credits. If you run out of included credits, you can purchase additional ones at any time, paying only for what you need.

Credits do not expire: they remain in your account even if you do not renew your subscription, but an active subscription is required to use the AI.

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It's included in all subscription plans. Open the app, go to the AI section, and start with your first prompt.

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