ABSTRACT
Much of the activity of football coaches is embodied in the observation. Thus, it is important to clearly define the behavior which can be observed in a game (Carling et al., 2009; Hughes, 2008), to produce an intervention to increase performance based on that information. However, despite a vast literature devoted to the game analysis (Carling et al., 2009; Carling et al., 2005; Hughes, 2008), there are few studies that focus on the characterization of the coach's thoughts about the observation of the game and his/her intervention before the information is collected. Thus, this study aims to understand what the coaches observe in the game and how they evaluate and make their intervention based on this observation.
