Revealing the decision-making of dribbling in the sport of futsal

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate why futsal players decide to dribble. For this purpose, we analysed 396 trials comprising the dribbles (n = 132), passes (n = 131) or shots (n = 133), performed by 70 male futsal players. Passing and shooting angles, and interpersonal distance, including their rates of change (velocity and variability), were regarded as measures of interpersonal coordination tendency and a comparison was made among dribbling, passing and shooting situations. In addition, the variables identified as constraints on deciding to dribble were analysed in relation to age categories, dribbling outcomes and futsal court zone. Results revealed that passing and shooting angles, and interpersonal distance showed higher variability in dribbling than in passing and shooting situations. The findings allowed us to conclude that decision-making on dribbling was influenced by the variabilities of passing angles as well as shooting and interpersonal distance, and that success in dribbling was affected by the variability of interpersonal distance. Such variabilities were interpreted concerning their meaning of risk and/or uncertainty in the execution of motor skills.

The volleyball setter’s decision-making on attacking

“…Interestingly, most studies in ecological dynamics have investigated players' decisionmaking in such invasive team sports such as basketball (Araújo, Davids, Bennett, Button, & Chapman, 2004;Cordovil et al, 2009), rugby (Correia et al, 2012;Passos, Cordovil, Fernandes, & Barreiros, 2012), futsal (Corrêa et al, 2016;Travassos, Araújo, Duarte, & McGarry, 2012) and soccer (Duarte et al, 2012;Romero, Denardi, Travassos, & Corrêa, 2016). An important point here is that the ways in which players interact in terms of opposing and cooperating in these team sports are different from those of net team sports such as volleyball.…”

Assessment of the performance of novice futsal players in the execution of futsal-specific motor skills

“…instead, previous research has investigated only isolated specific motor skills, e.g. kicking, dribbling, and ball control [10,12,13,19].…”

“…However, prior studies have focused on evaluating adolescent futsal players over the course of sports development, i.e., between 12 and 17 years of age [12,13]. Thus, scientific studies are ignoring how players perform specific motor skills between 6 and 11 years, a crucial moment of motor learning phase [14,15], besides focusing only on the execution of offensive actions, neglecting the defensive results of the players.…”

Complex Systems in Sport, International Congress: Linking Theory and Practice

“…Understanding how performance emerges in complex systems like futsal is to understand how different players with different capabilities (physiological, tactical, technical) interact under task (game rules, different game systems) and environment (home-away, winning losing teams) constraints to make emerge functional, dyadic and collective spatiotemporal patterns of relations between teammates and with opponents . In the past years, grounded on the main ideas of complex systems a lot of works (Travassos et al, 2012a;Vilar et al, 2013;Corrêa et al, 2016) have been developed, through the use of positional data, with the aim to capture the informational constraints that guide players and teams tactical behaviours and also the emergent patterns of coordination that characterizes and sustain teams' performance in futsal. Such research have identified interesting spatial-temporal relations between players' distances, angles, spaces covered or alignments with the goal, or the ball that help coaches to really understand the tactical behaviours of players and teams based on the coach model developed.…”