Open AccessExploring key competencies sought to potentialize tactical behavior in soccer players.
Author(s) -
Grégory Hallé Petiot,
Davi Silva,
Lucas Bezerra
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
brazilian journal of motor behavior/brazilian journal of motor behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2446-4902
pISSN - 1980-5586
DOI - 10.20338/bjmb.v14i5.199
Subject(s) - adaptability , creativity , psychology , action (physics) , competence (human resources) , nature versus nurture , cognition , process (computing) , argumentation theory , knowledge management , computer science , social psychology , management , sociology , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , anthropology , economics , operating system
BACKGROUND: Soccer is part of the team sports games category and is characterized by the cooperation and opposition interactions between players in the same space of play and time. Thus, players must adequately decide what action to perform despite the unpredictable, random, and varying nature of the environment of play.AIM: This paper explores tactical competencies that can be appreciated in the way players play and their functioning.METHOD: The argumentation is structured over a review of sixty articles in five languages, selected from the results in an online university library with topic-related keywords. The selected papers were analyzed to identify the most frequently reported concepts related to (i) tactics and action in the play; (ii) decision-making and associated cognitive mechanisms and skills; and (iii) the teaching-learning-training process.RESULTS: The results of this review sum the three following competencies: tactical intelligence, creativity, and co-adaptability. We argue that these competencies can be built through the play's practice and that coaches should seek to use them to the advantage of player’s development. Small-sided and conditioned games reflect a compatible opportunity to nurture the competencies as long as they are configured to solicit the competencies in an environment that promotes them.CONCLUSION: Tactical intelligence, creativity, and co-adaptability can be appreciated in the tactical behavior shown by performing players. For the same reason, those also should constitute more of the player’s development curriculum, therefore leading to players who have a competitive advantage.