Cognitive Training in Soccer: Where Is the Key Point?

Giuriato, Matteo; Lovecchio, Nicola

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“…Neither individual nor team athletes encounter a light-based stimulus in their respective sport although track athletes, namely sprinters and hurdlers, need to instantaneously respond to the auditory signal of a starting pistol [22][23][24]. However, this is a simple stimulus compared with the more complex visual, auditory (verbal communication), and kinesthetic stimuli experienced by athletes when confronting an opponent [25][26][27][28][29]. Furthermore, the group of individual athletes also included tennis players and judokas who, like team athletes, react to the external stimuli generated by an opponent.…”

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Evaluation of the Pre-Planned and Non-Planed Agility Performance: Comparison between Individual and Team Sports

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Žvan

et al. 2020

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This study assessed differences in agility performance between athletes of team and individual sports by assessing change-of-direction speed (CODS) as pre-planned agility and reactive agility (RA) as non-planed in different spatial configurations. The study involved 36 individual (sprint, hurdles, jumping, tennis, and judo) and 34 team (soccer, basketball, and handball) athletes. CODS and RA were measured with a light-based reactive training system in a frontal (FR), universal (UN), semicircular (SC), and lateral (LA) design. Lower limb power and sprint performance were also measured in a 10 m single leg jump test and 15 m sprint. Individual athletes showed significantly better performance in three of the eight agility tests: LA-RA, UN-RA, and SC-CODS (p < 0.008, p < 0.036, and p < 0.027, respectively) and were found to present stronger correlations (p < 0.01) between jump test performance and the CODS condition. Team athletes showed stronger associations between sprint performance and the CODS condition. In the RA condition both jump and sprint performance showed stronger correlations in the group of individual athletes. Agility performance as measured by CODS and RA should improve with enhanced of motor proficiency. Finally, the tests applied in this experiment seem to be multidimensional, but require spatio-temporal adjustment for their implementation, so that they meet the requirements of the particular sport.

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Evaluation of the Pre-Planned and Non-Planed Agility Performance: Comparison between Individual and Team Sports

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“…Indeed, the success in soccer depends on how information are processed considering the complex and quickly changing environment (García-Angulo & García-Angulo, 2018;Wang et al, 2013;Vestberg et al, 2012). This close relation between the environment and the player decisions leads the coaches to train towards plastic players (Giuriato & Lovecchio, 2018;Raiola, 2014Raiola, & 2017.…”

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“…The youth soccer training focused on tactic and technique learning in which often the coordinative aspects solicitation prevails. In recent years researchers and trainers shifted the attention on the cognitive function and on ability to solve motor problems (Giuriato & Lovecchio, 2018;Raiola, 2014Raiola, & 2017Aitken and MacMahon, 2019). This attention is justified because soccer is an open skills sport in which the player must continually adapt to a changing environment, seeking new solutions (Giuriato & Lovecchio, 2018).…”

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“…In recent years researchers and trainers shifted the attention on the cognitive function and on ability to solve motor problems (Giuriato & Lovecchio, 2018;Raiola, 2014Raiola, & 2017Aitken and MacMahon, 2019). This attention is justified because soccer is an open skills sport in which the player must continually adapt to a changing environment, seeking new solutions (Giuriato & Lovecchio, 2018). This constantly changing environment in relation to the movements of all participants, teammates and opponents, requires the search for creative, non-stereotyped motor solutions (Woods et al, 2020;Davids, 2015;Savelsbergh & Van der Kamp, 2000).…”

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“…The soccer interactions are tuned by environmental information to function specifically in each unique situation, emphasising the need to understand the nature of the information that constrains movement. In stark contrast to predetermined passing patterns, practice should highlight informational constraints that allow players to learn new ways of acting adaptively through exploration (Woods et al, 2011;Giuriato & Lovecchio, 2018).…”

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Introduction: The creative actions are a production of the individual who must meet the constraints of the task and the environment. Consequently, creative motor actions are understood as functional movement patterns that are new to the individual and/or group and adapted to meet the constraints of the motor problem. The literature argues that creative motor actions can be promoted by didactic interventions that favour exploration by manipulating constraints. Methodology: For the bibliographic search PubMed and Sport Discuss databases were used selecting articles published between 01/01/2014 and 10/09/2020. Results: The initial database search produced 12 results. After removing the duplicates (2) and studies on specific or tactical soccer skills (3), seven studies were selected, analysed and included in the narrative review. Discussion and conclusions: The spatial and task constraints affect the distances between the young players but not the passage ball angles nor the ball speed. Furthermore, one study in particular showed very high levels of vigorous and very vigorous physical activity in all the tasks designed with ecological dynamic teaching. This study show that the use of these new teaching methodologies has an impact on levels of physical activity in accordance with the recommended health parameters.

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Played-form activities in soccer are customized variants of the original game, configured to emphasize important informational and task constraints in the way players perform in practice. Parameters of play such as the shape and dimensions of the playing area, number of participants involved, and conditions of play are key properties that activities are designed from. These properties impact on the specific practice contexts in which players are challenged to perceive information, make decisions and perform actions, during competitive performance preparation and player development. There are countless possible configurations of played-form activities that can provide development or training opportunities for players to improve performance. Although there are no standard guidelines for designing such practice tasks, here we propose how a theoretical rationale like ecological dynamics can frame the configuration of activities, modelled on typical formats, specific task constraints and key developmental needs. In this article, these formats are depicted with reference to common coaching licence curriculum needs and scientific literature. This insight paper presents a continuum of played-form activities, exemplifying characteristics of different practice designs in soccer. This integration of knowledge provides a valid continuum of play practice designs, based on an extent of specific opportunities for actions in different phases of play. Our insights suggest how coaches and trainers in team sports could gain a deep understanding of how specific played-form activity configurations impact on skill adaptation in players, providing opportunities for coaches to function as learning facilitators.

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Cognitive Training in Soccer: Where Is the Key Point?

Cited by 5 publications

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Evaluation of the Pre-Planned and Non-Planed Agility Performance: Comparison between Individual and Team Sports

Evaluation of the Pre-Planned and Non-Planed Agility Performance: Comparison between Individual and Team Sports

Ecological dynamics approach in the youth soccer: A short narrative review

The key role of context in team sports training: The value of played-form activities in practice designs for soccer

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