Future horizons in the analysis of technical-tactical performance in women’s football: a mixed methods approach to the analysis of in-depth interviews with professional coaches and players

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Antonio Ardá¹  Rubén Maneiro²  José Luis Losada³  M. Teresa Anguera⁴  Iyán Iván-Baragaño⁵ 

[1] Department of Physical and Sport Education, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain;Department of Science of Physical Activity and Sport, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain;Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;Faculty of Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;Faculty of Sport Sciences, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;

关键词: women’s football;    observational methodology;    performance indicators;    in-depth interviews;    indirect observation;    quantitizing;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1128549

 received in 2022-12-20, accepted in 2023-04-27,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

IntroductionScientific knowledge about the criteria that determine success in women’s football is beginning to develop.MethodsThis study was carried out with the aim of detecting regularities in the offensive success in elite women’s football, as well as carrying out an interrelational analysis of linked behaviors, based on in-depth interviews with professional coaches and players. Eight in-depth interviews were conducted with professional Spanish coaches and players. The interviews were analyzed by indirect observation from a process of “quantitizing,” through the construction of an indirect observation ad hoc instrument. The segmentation of the transcription of the interviews was carried out in textual units, and the creation of a matrix of codes. Two types of analysis were performed: first, a lag sequential analysis (LSA) was performed and, then, a polar coordinates analysis (PCA), which allowed to find, respectively, a wide number of established communicative patterns with offensive performance in women’s football, as well as an interrelational map between the established codes.ResultsThe results obtained allowed us to suggest a statistically significant association between success in women’s football and criteria such as the physical characteristics of a particular player, the individual action space, the duration of the attack, the type of dynamic start, individual and collective technical and tactical aspects, decision making and the type of attack used.DiscussionBased on these results, the influence of these criteria on performance in women’s soccer can be studied in future studies. In addition, with the aim of increasing the validity of these conclusions, new studies on this subject may be carried out following strategies such as the Delphi Method.

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