Understanding how youth football players base their game interactions may constitute a
solid criterion for fine-tuning the training process and, ultimately, to achieve better individual …

To understand the dynamic patterns of behaviours and interactions between athletes that
characterize successful performance in different sports is an important challenge for all sport …

The analyses of players and teams' behaviors during the FIFA World Cup may provide a
better understanding on how football tactics and strategies have developed in the past few …

Abstract Summary statistics for football matches, such as ball possession and percentage of
completed passes, are not always satisfyingly informative about team strategies seen on the …

This study on the 2018 Russia FIFA World Cup examined: i) the potential variations of ball
possession, match running performance, player prominence, team network properties …

Teams can be defined by their interactions and successful performance rests on their
members' behaviour. Although this topic has been studied both in sports and management …

The purpose of this article was to investigate the influence of additional players and playing
position on the network properties during 2x4 minutes small-sided and conditioned games …

This study aimed to compare the effect of manipulating the absolute and relative area of
SSCG on players' behaviour. 36 players were selected from the U-13 and U-14 category …

The current study constructed social network using player positions and passing process
based on available literature. Multiple indicators were used to measure the importance of …

Collective behavior can be defined as the ability of humans to coordinate with others
through a complex environment. Sports offer exquisite examples of this dynamic interplay …