{"id":43297,"date":"2018-11-12T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruyffalumni.org\/johancruyffinstitute-2026\/johan-cruyff-institute-to-explain-the-importance-of-educating-athletes-at-the-international-player-care-conference\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:48:13","slug":"johan-cruyff-institute-to-explain-the-importance-of-educating-athletes-at-the-international-player-care-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/the-magazine\/latest-news\/johan-cruyff-institute-to-explain-the-importance-of-educating-athletes-at-the-international-player-care-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Johan Cruyff Institute explains the importance of educating athletes at the International Player Care Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The director of Johan Cruyff Institute, Mari\u00ebl Koerhuis, has been invited to discuss the role of education in a panel session with ex-footballers Sonny Pike and Ryan Smith<\/h2>\n<p class=\"thevelop-dropcap\">The sports industry met today at the Corinthia Hotel in London on the occasion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/premiersportsnetwork.com\/2018\/01\/04\/inter-player-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>International Player Care Conference<\/strong><\/a> organized by Premier Sports Network. It is a day of talks focusing on athletes, their environment and all those aspects that influence their development. <a href=\"\/johancruyffinstitute-2026?page_id=41528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Johan Cruyff Institute<\/strong><\/a> has spent 20 years dedicated to the academic education of athletes, and its director, <strong>Mari\u00ebl Koerhuis<\/strong>, spoke about its experience and training model in a panel session discussion with the British ex-football players <strong>Sonny Pike\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Ryan Smith<\/strong>, two talents that stood out for their precociousness at Ajax and Arsenal, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The education of athletes should not be a dilemma<\/strong> whatever the age at which it is undertaken. Combining sport and studies is perfectly possible, but each activity must be given the importance and space it requires. <a href=\"\/johancruyffinstitute-2026?page_id=41528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johan Cruyff Institute<\/a> network is 100% sports oriented and accompanies athletes in their training from adolescence, through the <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/johan-cruyff-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johan Cruyff College<\/a> and <a href=\"\/johancruyffinstitute-2026?p=43490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johan Cruyff Academy<\/a>, to more advanced ages with a varied offer of master\u2019s and postgraduate programs for active athletes and those who are in the last phase of their career, or have already retired, and want to continue linked to sport from the management side of things.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/37CaoGPALSY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> width=&#8221;853&#8243; height=&#8221;480&#8243; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243; allowfullscreen=&#8221;allowfullscreen&#8221;><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Johan Cruyff<\/strong> always defended athletes\u2019 ability to lead, with proper training, institutions and sports organizations: &#8220;We do not penalize our athletes or managers for not being able to study as many hours as other people who do not train or aren\u2019t still working. We welcome and teach them because I firmly believe that there is no one better to defend the interests of sport than those with the heart of an athlete&#8221;, said Johan.<\/p>\n<p>That continues to be the mission of Johan Cruyff Institute: train athletes and contribute to the professionalization of the sector with tailor-made programs for clubs and sports organizations that are committed to training their players and staff or to ensuring their own management is more professional and efficient, thereby enabling them to adapt to a constantly evolving environment.<\/p>\n<div class='programa-destacado-post'>\n<h3 class=\"especiality-mini-title\">MASTER IN<\/h3>\n<h2 class=\"programa-maxi-title\">Sport Management Online<\/h2>\n<div class=\"thevelop-posts\">\n<article>\n<p>The main objective of the Master in Sport Management Online is to train you to use management tools to help you recognize business opportunities, develop strategies, anticipate changes, optimize resources and analyze information judiciously, without the obstacles of time or place and adapting the pace of study to your individual workload and availability.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button-in-post\" title=\"MASTER IN Sport Management Online\" href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/programa\/master-in-sport-management-online\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Sign up<\/a><\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearboth\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of Johan Cruyff Institute, Mari\u00ebl Koerhuis, has been invited to discuss the role of education in a panel session with ex-footballers Sonny Pike and Ryan Smith The education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"editorial_type":[400],"class_list":["post-43297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62895,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43297\/revisions\/62895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43297"},{"taxonomy":"editorial_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial_type?post=43297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}