Background: Street football can be understood as the most natural way to learn football and it can be a great starting point to develop perceptual, decisional, tactical and motor skills. Importantly, players involved in Street football may develop a strong emotional bond to the game through their experiences playing in an informal setting and eventually this could support their participation in a more structured playing environment. However, nowadays, talented children have reduced opportunities to play the game in this informal environment and instead, are mostly experiencing the game through their participation in organised settings such as in youth football clubs and academies. Importantly, such structured and formal environments afford the children a more rigid and less representative learning environment, which could potentially inhibit the development of creativity and adaptability among these young players. Purpose: The current paper aims to discuss the importance of Street football to players’ development and the role of a Nonlinear Pedagogy (NLP) framework to support the design of a player-centred and game-based approach that can contribute to enhance learning of creative and adaptive behaviours in football. Discussion: Pedagogical principles of NLP (representative learning design, information-movement couplings, manipulation of constraints, exploratory learning and reducing conscious control of movement) underpinned by concepts from Ecological Dynamics and working through pedagogical channels (instruction, feedback and practice) can facilitate the design of representative training tasks to enhance learning. NLP emphasises a learner-centred approach and highlights the critical role that the practitioner plays as a facilitator in providing learners with meaningful practice that leads to effective transfer of game-play behaviours. Street football affords features that capture some of the above key pedagogical principles and presents a suitable platform to support the acquisition of game-play behaviour that is meaningful for the individual learner. Conclusions: Through a recognition of the current need to design a football learning environments that capture key elements of Street football, we highlight the relevance of NLP as a pedagogical framework to underpin a learner-centred and game-based approach, supporting practitioners with a set of pedagogical principles. Thus, we propose that through this representative learning environment we can enhance learning in football and contribute to the development of intelligent and creative players.

Sport coaches in Brazil have been recognized as professionals since the implementation of law 9696 in 1998. However, little is known about the impact of this law on the production of coaching science in this country. In an attempt to situate the sports coaching research produced in Brazil since then, the aim of the current study was to show an overview of Brazilian publications from 2000 to 2015. Eight journals were selected and a review was performed in 425 issues of the journals from 2000 to 2015. As a result, 82 published articles were analyzed. On average, five articles were published each year, with 81.7% of the articles published from 2009 to 2015. The findings illustrate that 37.7% of the articles were focused on coaches’ thinking and 29.5% on coaches’ behaviors, 48.7% used qualitative methods, while 40.3% used quantitative methods and 20.9% used mixed methods. Only two articles attempted to explore the impact of the 1998 legislation on the development of sport coaches in Brazil. In general, research on sport coaching in Brazil seems to be emerging on an international level, as there has been an increase in publications over the past seven years, especially in the lead-up to the Rio2016 Summer Olympic Games.

Resumo: O alargamento das possibilidades de compreensão do fenômeno esporte e avanços em Pedagogia do Esporte tiveram um importante papel da ciência, observando os diferentes personagens, cenários, significados e finalidades do esporte. Todavia, no bojo das transformações que alcançaram a sociedade contemporânea, a própria ciência viu-se em meio a crises e rupturas paradigmáticas. E é esta a alocação deste estudo, que discute as relações entre os paradigmas tradicionais da ciência e a consolidação de metodologias e procedimentos pedagógicos pioneiros no trato com os Jogos Esportivos Coletivos (JEC), muitos dos quais ainda perduram em diferentes contextos de ensino, aprendizagem e vivência do esporte. Assim, estando no presente (crises, rupturas paradigmática) olhando para o passado (ciência normal, conhecimento acumulado), será possível vislumbrar os pressupostos que apontem para uma ciência contemporânea, especificamente sob a ótica da Pedagogia do Esporte. Palavras chave: Ciência; Pedagogia do Esporte; Jogos Esportivos Coletivos; Paradigma. Abstract: The enlargement of the possibilities to understand the Sport and the advances in Sport Pedagogy phenomenon had an important support of science, observing the different characters, backgrounds, meanings and purposes of the sport. However, in the wake of the transformations that have reached the contemporary society, science found itself in the midst of crises and paradigmatic ruptures. And this is the allocation of this essay, which discusses the relationship between the traditional paradigms of science and consolidation of methodologies and pioneer pedagogical procedures in dealing with Collective Sports Games (JEC), many of which still exist in different contexts of teaching, learning and experience of sport. Thus, being in the present (crisis breaks paradigmatic) looking back (normal science, accumulated knowledge), you can glimpse the assumptions that point to a contemporary science, specifically from the perspective of Sport Pedagogy. Keywords: Science, Sport Pedagogy; Team Games; Paradigm.

The type of sport practiced may shape the athletic career, considered as the period in which an athlete is dedicated to obtaining their maximum performance in one or more sports. The aim of this study was to compare athletic careers and retirement in individual and team sports. Four hundred and ten former elite athletes (38.5 ± 7.6 years) answered an ad hoc questionnaire; 61.5% were men and 38.5% women; 45.1% were from individual sports, while 54.9% were from team sports. It emerged that the age of maximum sports performance and the retirement age occurred significantly later in team sports than in individual sports (U = 15,042 and U = 12,624.5, respectively p < 0.001). Team sports athletes combined their athletic career with work to a greater extent than those from individual sports (χ2 (3, N = 408) = 14.2; p = 0.003; Cv = 0.187). Individual sports athletes trained more hours per week (30.0 ± 11.7 h) than those involved in team sports (19.2 ± 10.7 h; U = 9682; p < 0.001). These athletes (team sports) were in a better economic and working situation at retirement transition (χ2 (3, N = 406) = 23.9; p < 0.001; Cv = 0.242). Individual sports athletes perform physical activity more frequently than team sports athletes (U = 16,267.5; p = 0.045), while team sports athletes participate more actively in veteran competitions (χ2 (1, N = 390) = 3.9; p = 0.047; Cv = 0.104) and more frequently attend events as spectators (χ2 (1, N = 390) = 8.4; p = 0.004; Cv = 0.151). dual career support providers should be aware that team sports athletes enjoy a longer athletic career, and they are in a better position to face the retirement transition than individual sports athletes.

O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar a participação das mulheres nos cargos de comissão técnica e de arbitragem no Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino desde a primeira edição da competição, em 2013, até o ano de 2019. Analisamos a quantidade de mulheres atuantes como treinadoras, auxiliares técnicas, preparadoras físicas, massagistas, treinadoras de goleiras, fisioterapeutas e médicas. Também coletamos informações sobre o quarteto de arbitragem. Verificamos um predomínio (~86%) de homens em cargos de comissão técnica com um lento aumento da participação de mulheres. As mulheres parecem ter maior inserção nos cargos de comissão de arbitragem. Encontramos 39% de mulheres atuando como árbitras principais e 59% como árbitras assistentes. Verificamos que a participação de mulheres nos cargos de comissão técnica e de arbitragem no Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino aumentou vagarosamente nos últimos anos, mas que a situação permanece de desigualdade.

The overall aim of this article was to present a positive case study about how a sport club can foster both elite athlete development in parallel with offering a diverse range of sport activities to attract and maintain a greater number of children and youth for continued participation in a long term sport program. To this end, an in-depth case study was conducted of a model Spanish Basketball Club, considered an example of success in achieving consistent level of performance and high rates of participation among their youth. Data were collected from in-depth interviews with administrators, setting observation, and analysis of current and archived club documents. The results show that the club has created changes over the years that have led to a clear organizational structure with a philosophy that connects its youth development teams and elite teams. An increase focus on youth development, the addition of recreational activities, and the implementation of a coach education program have been linked to enhanced participation rate and performance.