ABSTRACT
This chapter examines strategies, based on Football Federation Australia's National Curriculum, to inform coaches on how to create learning environments to potentially foster game intelligence in players. Game intelligence can be investigated as two separate but related attributes, tactical and decision-making skills. Tactical skills comprise both declarative knowledge, such as rules of the game, and procedural knowledge, such as the appropriate selection of an action within the context of the situation. Similar to decision-making skills, tactical knowledge and understanding is considered important for elite level performance, with players depending on cognitive information, including knowledge of the goals and actions of the game, awareness of skills and understanding of actions within the context of the game. As federations, teams and coaches begin to examine the next phases of player and team development, tactical knowledge and decision making are at the forefront of their needs.
