Clemente, Filipe Manuel, Martins, Fernando Manuel Lourenço, Mendes, Rui Sousa, Figueiredo, António José
A systemic overview of football game: The principles behind the game
Journal of Human Sport and Exercise. 2014, 9(2): 656-667. doi:10.14198/jhse.2014.92.05
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/jhse.2014.92.05
DOI: 10.14198/jhse.2014.92.05
ISSN: 1988-5202
Abstract: 
The football game is a specific system constituted by many players’ interactions. The specific nature of such sport must be properly analyzed and discussed in sport community in order to understand the principles that rules the system organization. As a team sport with specific properties it is truly important to discuss how players’ interactions from the dynamic nature of game. Therefore, the aim of this study is to classify the football game as a team sport and to discuss their specific dynamic that determines the emergence of a tactical behavior and a strategic definition. Such discussion can be important to determine the specific pedagogical and didactical contents to teach at youth football training and even in Physical Education classes.
Keywords:Football, Systems, Principles of play, Pedagogy
Universidad de Alicante. Área de Educación Física y Deporte
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