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The skilled soccer player:
► no longer has to process
all available information and can focus on the critical tactical elements
of the game.
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Is able to scan the
entire field and determine their options, thus ignoring irrelevant
information. Experienced players constantly scan the field visually,
knowing what they are going to do with the ball before they receive it.
This decreases the use of irrelevant information and expands the
processing of relevant information.
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Is able to apply what is
learned in a training session to a game. Creativity, spontaneity and
anticipation are all attributes of consciousness and highly skilled soccer
players.
► The Academy staff will
establish specific constraints to support skill development, such as
requiring that during practice players shoot only from outside the penalty
box or that they pass a minimum of three times before shooting. Practice
positively impacts performance.
It is not
expected that all players will achieve the same success in skill acquisition
but attention will be paid to players technique.
Academy staff will consider
each player’s physical characteristics including strength, power,
flexibility, speed, posture and proportionality (4) and provide a learning
environment that optimizes the learning & development opportunities for each
participant.
Academy Staff
will progress players into pressure situations (once technique has been
refined) to allow players the opportunity to solve problems through their
own learned ability.
Discovery learning in
soccer occurs throughout a player’s entire career. When presented with new
challenges, players can use creativity and experience to discover ways to
overcome the obstacles and perform successfully.
Williams and Davids
observed that experienced soccer players had a higher visual search rate,
involving more fixations of shorter duration. Players were also found to
focus their attention on their opponent’s hip region, thus allowing them to
focus on essential information and to accurately anticipate the next move.
Research shows very little
transfer of training.
► Expert chess players do
not have unusually high IQ levels.
► Training in one domain
does not mean better performance in another domain necessarily.
► One can develop an
automatized routine or motor skill without being able to describe how it
is done.
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Because a player can describe it does not mean they can do it.
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