title: The Relationship Between Coach and Player Training Load Perceptions in Professional Soccer.
abstract: The training load imposed and perceived by coaches and soccer players, respectively, was compared for three weeks of the basic preparatory period of a professional soccer team through session ratings of perceived exertion (S-RPE). Participants were 24 professional Brazilian soccer players (all males, age: 24.1 ± 3.4 years) and their coaches. Athletes responded to the scale of perceived exertion (scores from 0 to10) after the training, while the coaches completed the scale prior to the training session, based on prior planning. The t-test for independent samples was used to compare S-RPE responses, and the Pearson correlation test was used to examine possible correlations between the parameters analyzed. There were no statistical differences between perceptions of prescribed (coaches) and experienced (players) S-RPE, and moderate correlations were found between these parameters ( r = .60; p = .003). No statistically significant group differences were found in the perceived exertion during any of three types of training: physical, technical, or tactical. The results suggest that the S-RPE prescribed during the preseason period (by coaches) was not different from that perceived by professional soccer players.
authors.affiliation: 1 Post-Graduate Program in Sciences Motricity, UNESP - Univ Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brazil.
authors.forename: Paulo Eduardo
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Redkva
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Physical Education, UFPR - Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil.
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gregorio da Silva
authors.affiliation: 3 Post-Graduate Program in Physiology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil.
authors.forename: Mauro Ricetti
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Paes
authors.affiliation: 1 Post-Graduate Program in Sciences Motricity, UNESP - Univ Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brazil.|4 Department of Physical Education, UNESP-Univ Estadual Paulista, Bauru, Brazil.
authors.forename: Julio Wilson
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Dos-Santos
keywords: professional soccer; session ratings of perceived exertion; training load