Voss studies world's sporting elite

Brisbane Lions coach Michael Voss has travelled the world to study how the best sporting teams in the world operate. Picture: Mark Cranitch Source: The Courier-Mail

MICHAEL Voss says his globe-trotting voyage across four countries and almost 40,000km will make him a better coach and help the Lions rejoin the AFL's elite.

The Brisbane senior coach has been on a three-week study tour funded by the club, the AFL Coaches Association personal development fund and Voss himself and will return home this weekend.

After spending four days in Flagstaff, Arizona, with the Lions at the start of their high-altitude pre-season training camp, Voss embarked on a journey that took in fact-finding missions at the US football programs at Florida State University and Notre Dame University.

He then travelled to Holland for a visit with the powerful FC Twente football club before spending time at English Premier League club Tottenham and Italian giants AC Milan.

Speaking from Milan yesterday, Voss said the whirlwind tour had uncovered invaluable information on a whole range of issues from team facilities and infrastructure, post-match processes and training practices.

"I've been gallivanting all over the place, but the main aim was to look at what the elite are doing. To look at world's best practice," Voss said.

"I've been coaching in the AFL system for four years and I thought it was time to have a look at how others do it and see what I could bring back to help both me and the football club as a whole.

"We demand that our players look to constantly learn and improve. Our focus this pre-season is being really specific with them about how they can go about that.

"I need to do learn and improve myself. I've seen a million things over the past few weeks that will help our footy club prosper.

"What I have learned is that there are a lot of things that we are already doing very well but there are also areas where we are a long way off."

Voss said wherever he has visits he had been well received.

"The amount of information that has been provided has been fantastic," he said.

"They wouldn't know me from a bar of soap but that sort of fly-on-the-wall access has been tremendous and I'm looking forward to applying it to our game when I get home."

Voss said his absence would not have an impact on Brisbane's pre-season training program as the side was still in its conditioning phase.

Brisbane's more experienced players have been given this week off after arriving back from Arizona last weekend and will resume training this Monday.

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