- Title
- Understanding the role of gaze behaviour and coaching experience in the assessment of youth soccer teams
- Creator
- O'Brien-Smith, Jade; Smith, Mitchell R.; Vansteenkiste, Pieter; Fransen, Job; Zeuwts, Linus; Bennett, Kyle J. M.; Lenoir, Matthieu
- Relation
- Science and Medicine in Football Vol. 9, Issue 2, p. 163-171
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2024.2325135
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2024
- Description
- This study aimed to explore the perceptual-cognitive characteristics of coaches as they assessed team performance in youth soccer. The primary focus was to investigate the alignment between coaches' subjective analyses of team behaviour and objective analyses, while also examining the relationship between coaches' gaze behaviour and their levels of coaching experience, particularly considering the potential differences that may exist among coaches with varying levels of experience. Sixty-five male and female adults with various soccer coaching experience (experienced, novice, other team sport experience, and non-team sport experience) watched five 4-minute videos and assessed team behaviour. These subjective evaluations were compared to objective data obtained from video analysis and GPS, which included measures of completed skills, spatiotemporal characteristics, and passing networks. The participants' fixation duration and frequency were measured for each video clip, and the area around the ball specifically. The study found no significant differences between groups regarding the number of times participants' subjective analysis aligned with the objective data (p = 0.059, ɳ2 = 0.07). However, coaches with soccer coaching experience demonstrated a higher fixation frequency and more revisits to the ball area when compared to participants without soccer experience (p = <.001, ɳ2 = 0.09). The current study offers a unique approach to uncovering soccer coaching expertise by combining objective and subjective evaluations of team performance. In summary, the study reveals that coaching experience did not impact how often coaches subjective analyses matched objective data. However, soccer coaches had distinctive gaze behaviour patterns where they revisited the area around the ball more often.
- Subject
- expertise; gaze behaviour; performance analysis; skill; small-sided games
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1520612
- Identifier
- uon:57505
- Identifier
- ISSN:2473-3938
- Rights
- © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
- Language
- eng
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