Observação, Análise e Interpretação do Jogo de Futebol, na equipa Sub-15 do Leixões Sport Club

Abstract

Observation, Analysis and Interpretation in Football has evolved exponentially in recent years. Nowadays, it is essential to have a department of this area in any Football Club, since the competition is increasingly debated and balanced. In this follow-up, there is a greater need for insertion of multidisciplinary technical teams that include an observer, in order to improve the performance of the team, and that this be successful. The technical teams want to know and control the maximum of factors, be they of the own team or the opposing team. Observation, Analysis and Interpretation can be an asset to achieving this goal. This report is part of the training session held at Leixões Sport Club in the 2016/2017 sports season and is divided into four fundamental parts: 1) the framework of professional practice, which focuses on the macro context and institutional legal context; 2) the performance of the professional practice where the operational and complementary tasks performed during the internship are exposed; a brief study about the importance of Observation, Analysis and Interpretation in the preparation of an elite team; 3) the development of practice, conclusions that were based on the daily experience of the stage and literature review, and 4) and finally the future perspectives. In summary, it can be concluded that the Observation, Analysis and Interpretation of the behavior is a decisive task in the preparation of the training for the game of Football, even in junior levels; that it is used by coaches of different competitive levels and the distribution of information about the opposing teams influences the performance of the teams.