Futsal - From Training to Competition

Dear Colleagues,

Futsal is an emergent sport worldwide. However, little research has been developed with the goal of characterizing physical, technical, and tactical game demands or of monitoring training adaptations and their transfer to the context of performance. Additionally, very few studies have dedicated their efforts to understanding the learning process and the possible routes for futsal players’ development. Furthermore, the emerging technological advances and the possibility to capture positional data indoors opens new venues to the development of original and applied research with implications for performance analysis and training periodization in futsal.

Therefore, this Special Issue opens the possibility to publish original research, meta-analyses, reviews, and case studies related to the training process and performance analysis in futsal. This Special Issue seeks contributions on a variety of topics related to futsal: (i) talent development; (ii) futsal skills tests; (iii) training monitoring and testing; (iv) training periodization; (v) performance analysis; (vi) manipulation of practice tasks; (vii) game characterization; (viii) coaching process.

Dr. Bruno Travassos
Dr. Fabio Nakamura
Dr. Fabio Serpiello
Dr. Miguel Ángel Gómez-Ruano
Guest Editors

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