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In modern soccer tactical skills play an important role in all age groups and proficiency levels (Memmert & Harvey, 2010; Memmert & Konig, 2007). Many experts regard tactics as the factor which gets the least attention in the training process (Greco, Memmert & Morales, 2010; Memmert & Roth, 2007). For that reason, the most potential seems to lie in the tactics area. There are a couple of journal articles in the area of group tactics, however, a systematic overview is not available yet. It is even more crucial that there are no empirically validated differentiations of group tactical requirements in soccer. To be more specific: Of course taxonomies of group tactics occur in books sporadically, but it was not shown yet, whether they are actually relevant in amateur or competitive soccer. Therefore, Memmert (2006) work on those deficits in order to provide a scientifically based analysis of soccer specific group tactics. Building on pilot studies (second division of German Bundesliga), the coaching philosophy of Hansi Flick (current assistant coach of the German national soccer team) was indirectly examined based on 27 3rd division home games of 1899 Hoffenheim in the seasons 2002/2003 and 2003/2004. During the recorded game, he selected important positive and negative behaviours of different position groups without being aware of the fact that their coaching skills were being evaluated. All in all, 585 match situations were judged and commented on by the coaches. The implicit expert knowledge (video sequences and comments) from the single case analysis was solidified with the help of further qualitative content analyses. The resulting offensive and defensive group tactical skills were allocated to superordinate basic categories by means of inductive categorization. Thus, group tactical challenges were identified, which have to be solved through cooperation of several team members (= position groups). Such position groups are, for instance, strikers or midfielders, but also players in certain areas (e.g. left and right wing) or players from different positions, that move across those areas in a particular moment. Based on the analysis, the following group tactical categories were validated empirically (cf. Table 1.1. & Table 1.2).

World-Level Analysis in Top Level Football Analysis and Simulation of Football Specific Group Tactics by Means of Adaptive Neural Networks