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0000-0002-1397-0933
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Universidade Europeia
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Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-01-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2012
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2012.679674
Abstract: Russell, Benton and Kingsley (2010) recently suggested a new association football test comprising three different tasks for the evaluation of players' passing, dribbling and shooting skills. Their stated intention was to enhance 'ecological validity' of current association football skills tests allowing generalisation of results from the new protocols to performance constraints that were 'representative' of experiences during competitive game situations. However, in this comment we raise some concerns with their use of the term 'ecological validity' to allude to aspects of 'representative task design'. We propose that in their paper the authors confused understanding of environmental properties, performance achievement and generalisability of the test and its outcomes. Here, we argue that the tests designed by Russell and colleagues did not include critical sources of environmental information, such as the active role of opponents, which players typically use to organise their actions during performance. Static tasks which are not representative of the competitive performance environment may lead to different emerging patterns of movement organisation and performance outcomes, failing to effectively evaluate skills performance in sport.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-10-2012
DOI: 10.1080/17461391.2012.730063
Abstract: This study investigated compound spatial and temporal measures of interpersonal interactions purported to constrain the emergence of affordances for passing direction in the team sport of futsal. For this purpose, attacker-defender interactions in 37 sequences of play from a futsal competition in which 24 male professional players participated (M=30.04 years, SD=4.10) were filmed and analysed using TACTO software. Relative angle data were used as measures to study coordination tendencies that emerged between players during performance. Results showed that the direction for a pass emerged from relative angles between: (1) the vector from a ball carrier to ball receiver and the vector from the ball carrier to the nearest defender (70°) (p<0.01) and (2) the vector from a ball carrier to ball receiver and the vector from the ball carrier to a ball receiver's nearest defender (31°) (p < 0.01). Furthermore, passing direction was also constrained by temporal information from the emergence of both angles, since the pass was performed to attacker-defender dyads with the highest velocities of these angles (p < 0.05). Results suggested that decisions on selecting the direction of a pass in the team sport of futsal emerged at critical values of these key compound motion measures.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-11-2013
Location: Portugal
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