title: Tactical expertise assessment in youth football using representative tasks.
abstract: Specific football drills improve the development of technical/tactical and physical variables in players. Based on this principle, in recent years it has been possible to observe in daily training a growing volume of small-sided and conditioned games. These games are smaller and modified forms of formal games that augment players' perception of specific tactics. Despite this approach, the assessment of players' knowledge and tactical execution has not been well documented, due mainly to the difficulty in measuring tactical behavior. For that reason, this study aims to provide a narrative review about the tactical assessment of football training by using representative tasks to measure the tactical expertise of youth football players during small-sided and conditioned games. This study gives an overview of the ecological approach to training and the principles used for representative task design, providing relevant contribution and direction for future research into the assessment of tactical expertise in youth football.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Pedagogía en Educación Física, Facultad de Educación, Universidad Católica de Temuco (Chile), Rudecindo Ortega, 02950 Temuco, Chile.
authors.forename: Jaime
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Serra-Olivares
authors.affiliation: Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Escola Superior de Desporto e Lazer, Melgaço, Portugal.
authors.forename: Filipe Manuel
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-9813-2842
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Clemente
authors.affiliation: Teacher Training Faculty of Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-la Mancha, Cuenca, Spain.
authors.forename: Sixto
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: González-Víllora
keywords: Assessment; Expertise; Football; Representative task; Small-sided and conditioned games; Tactical knowledge