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      Game-Based Approaches’ Pedagogical Principles: Exploring Task Constraints in Youth Soccer

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          This study tested the use of two pedagogical principles of Game-based approaches, representation and exaggeration, in the context of game performance of U10 soccer players. Twenty-one players participated in two 3 vs. 3 small-sided games. The first small-sided game was modified by representation. The second small-sided game was modified by enhancing the penetration of the defense tactical problem for invasion games. Decision-making and execution were assessed using the Game Performance Evaluation Tool. No significant differences were observed between games in the number of decision-making units related to keeping possession, nor in those related to penetrating the defense. No significant differences were observed in any execution ability (ball control, passing, dribbling and get free movements). The findings suggested that both games could provide similar degeneracy processes to the players for skill acquisition (specific and contextualized task constraints in which they could develop their game performance and the capability to achieve different outcomes in varying contexts). Probably both games had similar learner-environment dynamics leading players to develop their capabilities for adapting their behaviours to the changing performance situations. More research is necessary, from the ecological dynamics point of view, to determine how we should use small-sided games in Game-based approaches.

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          The ecological dynamics of decision making in sport

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            A Review on the Effects of Soccer Small-Sided Games

            Over the last years there has been a substantial growth in research related to specific training methods in soccer with a strong emphasis on the effects of small-sided games. The increase of research in this topic is coincident with the increase of popularity obtained by specific soccer conditioning, which involves training players to deal with soccer match situations. Given the limited time available for fitness training in soccer, the effectiveness of small-sided games as a conditioning stimulus needs to be optimized to allow players to compete at the highest level. Available studies indicate that physiological responses (e.g. heart rate, blood lactate concentration and rating of perceived exertion), tactical and technical skill requirements can be modified during small-sided games by altering factors such as the number of players, the size of the pitch, the rules of the game, and coach encouragement. However, because of the lack of consistency in small-sided games design, player fitness, age, ability, level of coach encouragement, and playing rules in each of these studies, it is difficult to make accurate conclusions on the influence of each of these factors separately.
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              The role of ecological dynamics in analysing performance in team sports.

              Performance analysis is a subdiscipline of sports sciences and one-approach, notational analysis, has been used to objectively audit and describe behaviours of performers during different subphases of play, providing additional information for practitioners to improve future sports performance. Recent criticisms of these methods have suggested the need for a sound theoretical rationale to explain performance behaviours, not just describe them. The aim of this article was to show how ecological dynamics provides a valid theoretical explanation of performance in team sports by explaining the formation of successful and unsuccessful patterns of play, based on symmetry-breaking processes emerging from functional interactions between players and the performance environment. We offer the view that ecological dynamics is an upgrade to more operational methods of performance analysis that merely document statistics of competitive performance. In support of our arguments, we refer to exemplar data on competitive performance in team sports that have revealed functional interpersonal interactions between attackers and defenders, based on variations in the spatial positioning of performers relative to each other in critical performance areas, such as the scoring zones. Implications of this perspective are also considered for practice task design and sport development programmes.
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                Journal
                J Hum Kinet
                J Hum Kinet
                JHK
                Journal of Human Kinetics
                Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego w Katowicach
                1640-5544
                1899-7562
                27 June 2015
                10 July 2015
                : 46
                : 251-261
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Departamento de Pedagogía en Educación Física. Facultad de Educación. Universidad Católica de Temuco. Temuco, Chile.
                [2 ]Facultad de Educación. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Cuenca, España.
                [3 ]Facultad de Educación. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Albacete, España.
                [4 ]CIPER, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, SpertLab. Universidade de Lisboa. Lisboa Portugal.
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                Corresponding author: Jaime Serra-Olivares, Departamento de Pedagogía en Educación Física. Facultad de Educación. Universidad Católica de Temuco (Chile). Rudecindo Ortega 02950, Temuco (Chile). E-mail: jserra@ 123456uct.cl
                Article
                jhk-46-251
                10.1515/hukin-2015-0053
                4519216
                26240668
                d81ff358-0404-4b6c-9aad-1ff03405069f
                © Editorial Committee of Journal of Human Kinetics

                This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

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                : June 2015
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                Research Article
                Section IV – Behavioural Sciences in Sport

                game-based approaches,degeneracy processes,game performance,small-sided games

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