Publication: A Teaching Games for Understanding Programme to Deal with Reasons for Dropout in Under11 Football
Authors
Barquero-Ruiz, Carmen ; Arias-Estero, José L. ; Morales-Belando, María T.
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Taylor & Francis Group
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/02701367.2020.1759767
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©2020. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
This document is the Accepted, version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. To access the final edited and published work see
https://doi.org/10.1080/02701367.2020.1759767
Abstract
Young players report that they dropout of organized football due to excessive emphasis on
technical execution, low success, and the lack of autonomy and motivation experienced by
players during training sessions. Purpose: To determine whether a TGfU intervention during
a youth football program led players to improve in variables related to dropout. That means
tactical-technical competence (decision-making, skill execution), success (successful game performance), autonomy (number of decisions made, player autonomy, number of game involvements, player participation), and motivation (enjoyment, intention to be physically active).
Method: Twenty under-11-players and two coaches were recruited from 17 clubs. A pretestposttest design with a multi-method approach was used. Coaches were trained and mentored in
TGfU. Data were collected using Game Performance Assessment Instrument, enjoyment and
intention to be physically active scales, and two focus groups with the players and the coaches.
Results: Players improved in decision-making, skill execution, successful game performance,
number of decisions made, number of game involvements, and intention to be physically active
(p < .05). Participants attributed the results to the TGfU pedagogical features emphasized during
the coaches’ training and mentoring. Conclusion: Considering the reasons for dropout in
football, in terms of excessive emphasis on technical execution, low success, and the lack of
autonomy and motivation experienced by players, TGfU could be a useful pedagogical
approach for teaching-learning organized youth football. The TGfU pedagogical features
emphasized during coaches’ training and mentoring could be crucial to obtain these results
due to the fact that they were the sub-themes highlighted during the focus groups.
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Citation
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport 2021, Vol. 92, Nº. 4, 618–629
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