TEACHING AND SOCCER TRAINING: AN APPROACH THROUGH A TACTICAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Soccer, for their characteristics, falls into the category of collective sports games (Garganta, 2002). Regardless of other characteristics, is the opposition between the elements of two teams clash in the relationship and cooperation between team-mates, occurring in a random environment, that reflect the essence of the game (Garganta, 2001).

The organization of sports training and education should be a useful element for improving the performance of a particular person, group of subjects or learning context of a specific task (Davids, Button & Bennett, 2008). It is the responsibility of the coach, have multidisciplinary competences that enable to manipulate a set of elements that promote the development of tactical knowledge and decision making of the players, enabling a real increase in the capacity of players to the game matters: technical/tactical efficiency of the team. Thus, a coach's perspective, the proper handling of ecological elements of training may address the players' attention to relevant sources of information, acting in order to use the information that will achieve the objectives (Araújo, et al., 2005). This paper discusses briefly the importance that the tactic should have in each intervention of the soccer coach during planning the training or teaching.

(Journal of Sports Science and Technology 2012 ;12(1): 57 - 68)