title: Tactical skills are not verbal skills: a comment on Kannekens and colleagues.
abstract: In 2009, Kannekens and colleagues evaluated the development of tactical skills of elite youth football players using a method based on verbal reports. Results showed no improvements in players' tactical skills over the years of their longitudinal study. These results are based on an erroneous assumption that tactical skills and verbalizations about tactical skills are equivalent. This note comprises an explanation of why verbal reports are not a valid measure of tactical skills.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Human Kinetics, Technical University of Lisbon. daraujo@fmh.utl.pt
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Araújo
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Travassos
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vilar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D054874:Athletic Performance; D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012916:Soccer / Q000523:psychology*; D012931:Social Environment; D014706:Verbal Learning