ABSTRACT
The attempt to comprehend and understand soccer games is also going through this dichotomy of paradigms. The ideas are related to the direction people give to the way of solving problems. When there is an interaction between the player’s specific knowledge, and the coach’s ideas of play, the outcome is a collective project of dynamic play, simultaneously and paradoxically, predictable and unpredictable. The predictability emerges from the ideas of play the coach conveys and is structured on a macro level. From its origins to the present day, soccer has been through different phases, characterized by equally distinct demonstrations of play. The emancipation of soccer as a game happened at the occasion of its institutionalization through The Football Association, in 1863, in England. However, its practice as a recognized sport started in the early years of this century.
