ATHLETE-XCEL

GPS GUIDE · PLAYERS & PARENTS

Your own vest, your own progress

Got your own GPS vest? This is how you record a session and add it to your player passport. It takes a few minutes after each session.

Getting startedEach sessionUploadIf something is wrong

ONCE, BEFORE YOU START

Getting started

  1. 1

    Create your player account

    Sign up on ATHLETE-XCEL as a player. For players under 18, a parent or guardian sets this up together with them; a public profile is only possible with a parent's permission.
  2. 2

    Set up the vest in the Action Tracer app

    Install the Action Tracer app and connect the tracker. Put the player's own name on it, so you always know whose sessions they are.
  3. 3

    One vest, one player

    Only upload sessions of the player who owns the account. Everything you upload goes to that one passport. Sharing the vest with a brother or teammate? Their sessions belong in their own account.

EACH SESSION

Record

  1. 4

    Charge the tracker

    Charge it fully the day before. A tracker that runs empty during the session loses the rest of the data.
  2. 5

    Wear it tight

    The vest sits tight on the body, under the shirt, with the tracker in its pocket. A loose vest moves around and gives wrong speeds.
  3. 6

    Choose the pitch

    At the start of every training or match, select the pitch you play on in the Action Tracer app: go to Settings → MapManage. The first time at a new pitch, choose Create new map and follow the steps in the app. After that it is saved: next time choose Map list and pick the pitch.
  4. 7

    Wait for GPS before you start

    Start recording outside, away from buildings, a few minutes before the warm-up, so the tracker has a GPS signal when play starts.
  5. 8

    Stop and sync

    After the session, stop the recording and sync the tracker in the Action Tracer app.

AFTER THE SESSION

Add it to your passport

  1. 9

    Export the session

    In the Action Tracer app, export the session. The raw session file works best (a name like TempRawHistory_…); the Excel file (.xlsx) works too.
  2. 10

    Upload it

    In ATHLETE-XCEL go to Matches, choose Match performance or Training performance, and select the file. Several sessions at once is fine.
  3. 11

    Check and import

    Check the date and the numbers in the preview, then press Import data. Your score, development and achievements update right away.Filmed the match with Veo or another camera? Add the link and the key numbers under Video analysis. They are shown apart from your GPS data.

Your own GPS vest counts

Do you have your own Action Tracer vest, even if nobody else in your team has one? Upload the raw GPS file straight from the Action Tracer app. ATHLETE-XCEL reads the GPS positions and calculates the numbers itself, so scouts can trust them: your matches count for scouts, clubs, rankings and awards, just like sessions your club uploads, and they can follow your progress. Your own training sessions stay in your own overview.

A table you make yourself (Excel or CSV) is only for your own overview, because anyone can type numbers in a table. Each GPS file can only be uploaded once, and sessions with numbers a vest cannot produce wait for a check by our team.

What the numbers mean

  • Distance: total kilometres run.
  • High intensity: distance run faster than 14.4 km/h.
  • Sprint: distance run faster than 19.8 km/h.
  • Top speed: fastest speed held for about one second.
  • Accelerations and decelerations: speeding up or slowing down hard (2 m/s² or more) for at least one second.

These can differ a little from the Action Tracer app, because ATHLETE-XCEL uses the same limits for every player and filters out GPS jumps. Only these numbers are saved, never the route a player ran.

If something is wrong

A file cannot be read
Export it again from the Action Tracer app and choose it again.
Very short session or strange speeds
The tracker had no GPS signal at the start, or the vest was loose. Check the vest and wait for the signal next time.
A session is in there twice or by mistake
On the Matches page, under “Your uploads this week”, press Undo. This works for 7 days; after that, tell us with the Feedback button.
Anything else
Press the Feedback button at the bottom right of any page in ATHLETE-XCEL and tell us what happened. We read every message.
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