How do futsal players of different categories play during official matches? A tactical approach to players’ organization on the court from positional data

Murilo José de Oliveira Bueno, Fabio Giuliano Caetano, Michelle Kaori Yonezawa, André Santana Grella, Sergio Augusto Cunha and Felipe Arruda Moura

PLOS ONE, 2018, vol. 13, issue 6, 1-13

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to analyze futsal players’ organization on the court in different categories while attacking and defending, in interception and shot to goal situations. We obtained the trajectories of 89 players from the under-15 category, 102 players from the under-18 category, and 110 professional players, during official matches. The spread, surface area, and Euclidian distances between the teams’ centroids were measured to represent the distribution of the futsal players on the court. The variables were analyzed during each offensive and defensive sequence, and during situations of shots to goal and interceptions, with and without the outfield goalkeeper player participation. While the players were attacking, all categories presented greater spread and surface area, compared to values when players were defending (P

Date: 2018
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