The validity of small-sided games in predicting 11-vs-11 soccer game performance.

ABSTRACT: Predicting performance in soccer games has been a major focus within talent identification and development. Past research has mainly used performance levels, such as elite vs. non-elite players, as the performance to predict (i.e. the criterion). Moreover, these studies have mainly focused on isolated performance attributes as predictors of soccer performance levels. However, there has been an increasing interest in finer grained criterion measures of soccer performance, as well as representative assessments at the level of performance predictors. In this study, we first determined the degree to which 7-vs-7 small-sided games can be considered as representative of 11-vs-11 games. Second, we assessed the validity of individual players' small-sided game performance in predicting their 11-vs-

SUBMITTER: Bergkamp TLG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7505454 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature