O desenvolvimento da carreira esportiva de goleiros da seleção brasileira masculina de futebol: a perspectiva dos atletas

Abstract

Soccer is the sport with the largest number of practitioners in the world. The present research has as object of study the goalkeepers. The greater relevance of this function is still very recent in the world and national scenario, respectively. In different decades goalkeepers experienced the evolution of this training in the national scenario and lived different experiences among themselves. The central questions of this research are: how did sports career development of goalkeepers who play or have already played in the Brazilian men's national team? Were there thresholds in their sportsc career that lead them to elite level? The theoretical framework was based on the research of Côté, Stambulova and their collaborators. The aim of this study is to investigate and describe the athletic career of goalkeepers who play or have played in the Brazilian men's national team, based on a retrospective analysis of the players themselves. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven Brazilian goalkeepers who experienced the sports elite at the international level in different periods. The methodology for this study, it was used the Reflexive Thematic Analysis. The participants were involved with a high amount of deliberate play through games related to football in different contexts. All the transitions occurred with several singularities between the groups and the participants in relation to that proposed by the DMSP. It was possible to realize a technical tendency in the development process of the participants' athletic career. The conclusions are: the DMSP is not enough to analyze the complexity of factors that influence the development of the sports career. The PAF, the Sports Career Transition Model and the Cultural Transition Model are essential tools to sustain the gaps left by the first model; there are significant differences between the forms of career development between the three groups; there is a predominance of the thecnic aspects in structured training. We highlight the necessity to improve the tactical aspect in the periodization of training.