Collective metabolic power exertion in soccer training: Small sided game 4x4 with 4 little goals.
Today we'll see some data from another small sided game, played in a little pitch of 30x20m by some players of an Spanish amateur soccer team. Apart from the small pitch, this game has been executed during 5 minutes, with maximum 3 touches of the ball by the same player, and without direction, that is every team can score on any little goal.
That's the result on the collective metabolic power exertion of the players involved in the task.
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An error in last post!!!

When writing about last post, I told you (and this is an ERROR), that the data corresponded to an amateur Spanish soccer team; that's not correct. The data correspond to a professional Spanish first division soccer team.

Sorry!

Collective metabolic power exertion in soccer training: Small sided soccer game 3x3.
After a sightseeing of collective metabolic power exertion during soccer games, in professional and amateur Spanish soccer teams, we have done also a tour over the same metric demonstrated when playing different specific tactical games.
Now is the turn to go over the collective metabolic power exertion of different specific training tasks.
As a starting point, when planning a microcycle, a session or specially just a task, we have to had a clear idea of the main and secondary target of it, in order to be able to evaluate and if necessary correct it to improve our team performance.
By now, we are just paying attention to the conditioning structure of our team (without loosing sight the others structures as coordinative, cognitive, socio-affective, emotional-volitive, etc.).
With this in mind, and having as a reference the phases of higher collective metabolic power exertion during games, we are trying to show how to better improve our training methodology.
This implies that those specific tasks that we propose to try to improve in some way the specific conditioning of our team must be related to what happens during competition.
After this little reminder, let's go for today video where you will see an example of a typical small sided game of 3 against 3 players, with standard goals and goalkeepers for each team, in a pitch of 40x30m. This task was carried out during the in-season trainings of a spanish amateur soccer team (Cambrils CF), and as you will see there are some very interesting things to analyze.
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Collective metabolic power exertion in soccer training: tactical 8x6+gk game (part 4).
And this is the last part of this specific topic. Just be ready for the next entrance!
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Collective metabolic power exertion in soccer training: tactical 8x6+gk game (part 3).
This weekend I show you another video in which you'll see the collective metabolic power exertion in another 8x6+gk tactical game. In this case, the duration of this specific task has been shorter, around 5'30", and as you'll check, not always are the defensive players those who demonstrate a higher collective metabolic power exertion in this task.
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Collective metabolic power exertion in soccer training: tactical 8x6+gk game (part 2).
As in the previous post, I will show you some more data of the same tactical game done by the same spanish first division soccer team, and with the same characteristics, all along the next posts, and before going for the analysis of other specific training tasks.
The idea is show you data from the same specific task in different sessions, in order to have a better idea of the conditional demonstration via collective metabolic power exertion.
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Collective metabolic power exertion in soccer training: tactical games (part 4).
As today the part 3 of this issue has been really short and not really special, I show you the next step, that is, the analysis of a tactical game 8 against 6 plus a goalkeeper (8x6+p). In this tactical game, the 8 attack players must defend 4 little goals put on their bottom line, in a pitch of 65x70m. The 6 defense players with two midfielders and 4 defenses playing in line and in zone. The game is played with off-side rule.
Remember that this game has been done by a spanish professional first division soccer team.
You will see the data corresponding to the first of 2 reps of this specific task, played in the same day.
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