Methods for Increasing the Game Action Performance in Football by Valorizing the Cognitive Processes

This paper aims to highlight that learning/improving the technical-tactics actions and their efficiency in the game depends on a number of cognitive processes, starting from the assumption that in football we meet simultaneous cooperation and adversity actions, reason for which we can consider the existence of a continuous information and decision-making flow, a real communications network among players and the ball. Establishing a game strategy compliant with the acting rules established in the Regulation must be preceded by good information on the attack and defense systems and their implementation alternatives, as well as on the game organization and management rules, representing in fact the “strategy embryo”. The special tactical coaching must include the movement reproduction gestual patterns, the practical action principles or rules, the global typical game situations and, last but not least, the situations implying issue settlement.