Practice, instruction and skill acquisition in soccer: challenging tradition.

Abstract

The acquisition of soccer skills is fundamental to our gratification of the game and is essential to the attainment of expertise. Players dispose of most of their time in practice with the intention of improving technical skills. However, there is a lack of scientific research relating to the effective acquisition of soccer skills, especially when compared with the extensive research base upon physiological aspects of performance. generally received coaching practice is therefore based upon tradition, intuition and emulation rather than empirical evidence. The aim of this review is to