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Football, Culture, Skill Development and Sport Coaching: Extending Ecological Approaches in Athlete Development Using

James Vaughan^1,2, Clifford J Mallett^1,3, Paul Potrac^4,5

¹School of Human Movement and Nutritional Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

Frontiers in Psychology

|July 26, 2021

Summary

This study uses ecological psychology to enhance football player development by examining how social and cultural factors shape skills. Understanding skilled intentionality helps coaches guide player development within specific contexts.

Keywords:

coaching creativity ecological dynamics ecological psychology football skilled intentionality sociocultural constraints value-directedness

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Area of Science:

Ecological psychology
Sports science
Skill acquisition

Background:

Athlete development is influenced by social, cultural, and historical contexts.
The way sports are played and skills are learned embody these broader life aspects.
Environmental properties gain social and cultural significance, influencing perception and action.

Purpose of the Study:

To extend ecological approaches for enhancing athlete development using the Skilled Intentionality Framework.
To illustrate how social, cultural, and historical aspects are embodied in football play and skill development.
To comprehend how team coordination and athletic skills embody culture and context through player-environment intentionality.

Main Methods:

Utilizing the Skilled Intentionality Framework and ecological/relational concepts.
Analyzing value-directedness in player-environment intentionality.
Examining affordances as value-realizing and intentionality as value-directed, using footballer rondo examples.

Main Results:

Social institutions and the form of life constrain individual values and skill development.
Value-directedness can significantly impact football player skill development, positively or negatively.
Skilled intentionality involves perceiving and acting upon value-laden environmental properties.

Conclusions:

Coaches should understand sociocultural constraints and shape player intentions to optimize skill development.
Failure to shape intentions allows environmental constraints to direct skill development.
Introducing "Shaping skilled intentions" as a principle within Non-linear Pedagogy is recommended for coaching practice.