The dream of the players, subject of study for the FC Barcelona

The FC Barcelona, with the help of the Group Alianz and in the frame of the 'Barça Innovation Hub', has foreseen to promote a study that analyse the links between the quality of the dream and the physical and sportive performance. To carry out it, the club will have the collaboration of 600 players of different sections of the club, to 50 of which will make them a study individualizado.

It treats of a scientific study pioneer, and to the sportsmen that participate in him will analyse them the quality of the dream, with the aim to measure the possible impacts of this in the sportive performance and in the health, in general, as well as in the prevention or apparition of injuries.

The project will have a length of roughly six months, and his results will go oriented to improve the welfare of all the sportsmen. "The dream, and by extension, the good rest, are indispensable factors for garantir the welfare and the good performance of ours sporty. Besides, the project has the will to trascend the sportive field and arrive to the population in general, an intrinsic aim of the Barça Innovation Hub and that answers to what represents to be 'more than a club'", has explained in the last hours Josep Maria Bartomeu, president of the club.

The project in question splits of the premise that the dream is essential for the health and the sportive welfare, and that also has a key impact in the physical development, the emotional regulation, the cognitive performance and the quality of life. It will analyse , in any case, which is the degree of importance of the quality of the dream in this type of fields.

To carry out the analysis, the sportsmen that loan will have to dress, while they sleep, an intelligent T-shirt that collects the data of the dream, like the cardiac frequency, the respiratory and the movements that can make. In addition to valuing the quality of the dream, the T-shirts will collect data biométricos and will be able to warn coronary illnesses.

The 'Barça Innovation Hub', to the service of the sport

The FC Barcelona, in definite, follows improving studies that serve to improve the welfare and the performance in the sport of elite, with the aim to boost the knowledge on these questions between all the sportsmen and, of this way, internalise elements that can serve to improve the health and the capacities of each one of them.