Collective behaviour in high and low-level youth soccer teams
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- Jade O'Brien-Smith, Job Fransen, William B. Sheehan, Matthieu Lenoir (UGent) , Kyle Bennett and Mitchell R. Smith
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- Abstract
- Background: An expert/non-expert paradigm often helps understand the underpinnings of sports expertise; however, this method is scarcely extended to the complexities of collective behaviour in youth soccer.Aim: Therefore, the objectives of the current study are to investigate differences in the collective behaviour of youth soccer teams by expertise level.Methodology: Soccer players aged 15 to 20 years from high (n = 35) and low (n = 40) playing levels competed in two age-matched 5v5 small-sided games. For each game, teams' skill involvement (shot, pass, dribble, touch), passing networks (closeness, density, betweenness), and spatiotemporal characteristics (stretch index, effective area, length (L) & width (W), LpW ratio, synchrony) were measured using video footage and GPS coordinates.Results: High level teams had more attempted (p = .009), and completed skills (p = .003), particularly for the number of passes (p = .001) and shots (p = .012-.045). However, there were no significant between-group differences for either the passing networks or spatiotemporal characteristics.Conclusion: The findings from the current research suggest that the high-level teams can quickly and effectively move the ball within existing team structures and may better optimise their afforded space to execute desired skills when compared to the low-level teams.
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- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Sports performance, small-sided games, constraints, dynamical systems, social network, spatiotemporal analysis, PlusSMALL-SIDED GAMES, TACTICAL BEHAVIOR, ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS, PLAYERS, PERFORMANCE, COORDINATION, AREA
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8738296
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- O’Brien-Smith, Jade, et al. “Collective Behaviour in High and Low-Level Youth Soccer Teams.” SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN FOOTBALL, vol. 6, no. 2, 2022, pp. 164–71, doi:10.1080/24733938.2021.1917774.
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- O’Brien-Smith, J., Fransen, J., Sheehan, W. B., Lenoir, M., Bennett, K., & Smith, M. R. (2022). Collective behaviour in high and low-level youth soccer teams. SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN FOOTBALL, 6(2), 164–171. https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2021.1917774
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- O’Brien-Smith, Jade, Job Fransen, William B. Sheehan, Matthieu Lenoir, Kyle Bennett, and Mitchell R. Smith. 2022. “Collective Behaviour in High and Low-Level Youth Soccer Teams.” SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN FOOTBALL 6 (2): 164–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2021.1917774.
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- O’Brien-Smith, Jade, Job Fransen, William B. Sheehan, Matthieu Lenoir, Kyle Bennett, and Mitchell R. Smith. 2022. “Collective Behaviour in High and Low-Level Youth Soccer Teams.” SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN FOOTBALL 6 (2): 164–171. doi:10.1080/24733938.2021.1917774.
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- 1.O’Brien-Smith J, Fransen J, Sheehan WB, Lenoir M, Bennett K, Smith MR. Collective behaviour in high and low-level youth soccer teams. SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN FOOTBALL. 2022;6(2):164–71.
- IEEE
- [1]J. O’Brien-Smith, J. Fransen, W. B. Sheehan, M. Lenoir, K. Bennett, and M. R. Smith, “Collective behaviour in high and low-level youth soccer teams,” SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN FOOTBALL, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 164–171, 2022.
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keywords = {{Tourism,Leisure and Hospitality Management,Physical Therapy,Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine,Sports performance,small-sided games,constraints,dynamical systems,social network,spatiotemporal analysis,PlusSMALL-SIDED GAMES,TACTICAL BEHAVIOR,ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS,PLAYERS,PERFORMANCE,COORDINATION,AREA}},
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