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COACHING.SCIENCE.ONE WAY TO UNDERSTAND THE GAME.

Handball in Analysis is built from two sides of the same career: high-performance coaching and scientific research applied to handball.

Willian Ferrari in a handball high-performance context
01 / TWO SIDES OF THE SAME WORK

INSIDE THE GAME.
BEYOND THE GAME.

The practical demands of competition and the scientific need to understand performance come together in the same objective: make better decisions.

Coaching and high performance
COACHING / HIGH PERFORMANCE

Experience inside competition.

Assistant coach, goalkeeper coach and performance analyst in club and national-team environments, working with match preparation, live observation, goalkeeper development and performance feedback.

Academic and scientific background
SCIENCE / RESEARCH

A scientific approach to performance.

Master’s and PhD training at the University of Coimbra, with research focused on offensive performance, match analysis and the identification of factors that differentiate performance in handball.

02 / PROFESSIONAL PATH

FROM THE COURT
TO PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS.

A career combining coaching, goalkeeper development, match analysis, live data and high-performance environments.

2024 — PRESENT

Brazilian Handball Confederation

Performance analysis

Data, statistics and video analysis in a national-team environment.

6th place — World Championship
2022 — 2026

Mecalia Atlético Guardés

Assistant coach / Goalkeeper coach

High-performance women’s handball in Spain, with responsibility in coaching and goalkeeper development.

EHF European Cup — Champions 2025/26EHF European Cup — Runners-up 2022/23Copa de la Reina — Runners-up 2025/26Liga Guerreras Iberdrola — Regular Season Champions 2024/25
2024 — 2025

National Coach License

Real Federación Española de Balonmano

Senior-level handball coaching qualification.

2021 — 2024

Scouting Official

IHF / EHF International Competitions

Official scouting work across major international handball competitions.

IHF World Championship Men’s 2023 — SwedenIHF World Championship Women’s 2023 — DenmarkIHF World Championship Men’s U21 2023 — GreeceEHF Euro Women’s 2024 — AustriaEHF Euro Men’s U20 2021 — Portugal
03 / ACADEMIC PATH

RESEARCHING
HOW PERFORMANCE HAPPENS.

Academic work focused directly on handball performance and match analysis.

2014 — 2021

PhD in Sport Sciences

University of Coimbra

Sports Training branch. Thesis focused on the offensive process and offensive performance of finalist teams in European club handball.

2011 — 2013

Master’s in Sports Training

University of Coimbra

Research on offensive process analysis in handball and the actions that differentiate winners from losers.

04 / SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

FROM OBSERVATION
TO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE.

01

Handball Offensive Analysis: Comparative Evolution of Linear Tendency Lines between Finalist Teams in the EHF CL. — Applied Sciences, 2023

02

Influence of Tactical and Situational Variables on Offensive Sequences During Elite European Handball Matches. — Frontiers in Psychology, 2022

03

Comparative analysis of the offensive effectiveness in winner and losing handball teams. — Frontiers in Psychology, 2020

04

Match analysis in Handball: A systematic review. — Montenegrin Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 2019

05

Development and Validation of a Notational Instrument to Study the Offensive Process in Handball. — Journal of Sport Pedagogy and Research, 2018

Handball performance analysis in practice
05 / WHY HIA

WHERE COACHING
MEETS SCIENCE.

HIA was created to connect what coaches observe during competition with a structured way to collect, interpret and communicate performance. The aim is not to generate more numbers, but to make match information easier to understand and easier to use.

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