This diploma thesis deals with the attack phase of the game in football. Specifically, it deals with complex analysis of successful attacks (ending with a goal) - covering everything from attack inception till the goal. We have observed attacks in three foreign national competitions and compared them with Czech first league. The work deals with both technical and tactical aspects of the offensive game systems. The theoretical part is focused on identification and explanation of the basic concepts of the game and its national and international organization - based on the current expert sources. In particular, it focuses on different elements of the game that are most important for the attack phase. The research part deals with attack game systems and its specifics in practice. Based on video recordings, we have analyzed matches from Czech, Spanish, German and English top leagues. The thesis than compares the efficacy and frequency of use of individual offensive game systems. It also focuses on situations that most immediately precede the establishment of individual successful attacks and evaluates gaming positions, which were the most often present in an attack establishment or termination and finally examines game activities used. The knowledge gained in this work should serve coaches, players and...

Title: Evaluation of czech football stadiums in spectator`s view Objectives: The main aim of this thesis is to evaluate selected football stadiums in spectator`s view and on the basis of gained results suggest possibilities of improvement. Methods: At first I selected criteria, that fan interferes from the time he leaves home, till he walks away from stadium. Then I marked these criteria for every stadium. Results: Gained results of evaluation showed, where are strengths and weaknesses of stadiums. Then I could offer improvement suggestion of spectator's comfort. Keywords: football, attendance, product

In my thesis I deal with issues of selection and training of talents in the youth football teams 1.FK Pribram. I play football from early childhood, so I can use my experiences in problematic selection and in training of football talents. Theoretical part I divided into eight chapters. The first chapter describes the history of football. The second chapter describes the history of football in our country. The third chapter deals with the characteristics of the current concept of football. Follows the fourth chapter, where are graphs of football competitions from the ages preparatory to adult men's category. In the fifth chapter is detailed content of the performance of an individual, game, goalie and the coach's personality and his work. Chapter six is devoted mainly characteristics of age periods from preparatory to older pupils. The penultimate chapter contains objectives, content and output of training groups from each age. Final eighth chapter describes talents and the selection of talents. Researching part is created by my own research in selecting and training talents. In my work I set hypotheses and results of research either confirm or refute them. Part of my job is also an empirical investigation, where I used the method of questionnaire and structured interview methods, including...

1 Abstract Author of thesis: Bc. Ondřej Kolísek Supervisor of thesis: PaedDr. Ladislav Pokorný Title of thesis: Porovnání fungování profesionálního a amatérského fotbalového klubu Problems of thesis (page 9): 1) There is legislation that governs functioning of professional and amateur football club? 2) How do professional and amateur football club? 3) What is diference leadership clubs for professional and amateur fotbal club? 4) What is diference background of professional and amateur football club? 5) What is diference financing and budgets of professional and amateur football club? Target of thesis (page 9): The target of thesis is to imagine, to specify and compare the particular factors, which interacts functioning of football clubs, and map and Compaq the basic prerequisities for successful functioning football clubs in the practice, and economic situation with regard to thein financing and budgets. Tasks of thesis (page 9): 1) The bibliographic, electronic and human resources to find a theoretical basis for the functioning of the issue of professional and amateur football clubs, and in the theoretical part the issues and their belonging to imagine. 2) Analysis observation and documents. 3) The creation ofquestionnaires for football club. 4) Based on the results of research to establish the relevant...

Title: Change in the external load at different forms of the game of football Objectives: The aim was to gain insight into various modifications of football and then apply theoretical knowledge to teaching experiment. Methods: In teaching experiment was to determine whether changes in participation of players in the game when resizing the field and change the number of players and also find how to change the load of the players with a change of pitch and number of players. Theoretical bases: Contains an list of the most modifications of football with their brief description. Then analysis of game performance. This chapter place emphasis on gaming activities of player. Last but not least the thesis contains a detailed discussion of the peculiarities of sports training of children and youth. This chapter focuses on the specifics of children's football and coaching youth both at home and abroad. Pedagogical experiment: The experiment was performed in category U-15 in the team FK Pelhřimov in November 2012 and It was focused on the participation of playeres in the game when resizing the pitch and number of players. Results: There was not detected increase in the intensity of load when resizing the pitch and change the number of players. It was found that the change in pitch and changes in the number of...

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The purpose of this research was to utilise a unique researcher vantage point (as embedded academy coach) to explore the experiences of male youth footballers (14-15 years old) at an English professional football academy. Participant observations and in-depth semi-structured interviews with twelve boys were used to generate data. The analysis focused upon (a) the competitive social organisation of the academy, (b) representations of masculinity (c) emotional proximity and what it means to be ‘friends’ in the academy setting, and (d) attitudes towards homosexuality. My findings highlight the limited ability of boys to develop trust and ‘deep’ friendships in this institutional context. These findings suggest that a hyper-competitive (neoliberal) market-driven rationality penetrates football academies and may play a role in altering the parameters of how ‘friendships’ can be lived and experienced for young people ‘on the inside’ of such institutions. Despite limitations on ‘friendships’ and emotional-proximity inside the academy, there was some evidence of inclusivity (c.f. Anderson, 2009), with regards to attitudes towards homosexuality. However, drawing on the concepts of complicity (Connell, 1987, 1995) and hybridity (c.f. Demetriou, 2001; Bridges, 2014), caution is maintained in describing these youth academy footballers as conclusively inclusive. Implications of these findings, limitations of this study and directions for future research are all discussed.

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Qu'est-ce que l'Europe politique et l'Europe du sport peuvent faire afin de mieux former les jeunes footballeurs et de mieux les protéger au cours d'un transfert ? Cette interrogation permet aisément la lecture de ce qui est en jeu à la jonction entre le champ sportif et le champ politique. Cet espace de positions sociales que constitue le football européen voit s'affronter des acteurs du mouvement sportif d'un côté, avec d'autres agents issus des institutions européennes. Nous démontrerons comment répondre politiquement à un problème footballistique, ce qui passe par une volonté politique de haut-niveau. Ainsi, le processus de policy-making résulte d'un compromis rendu obligatoire par l'autonomie et la spécificité dont bénéficie le football. La coordination entre les autorités publiques et le mouvement sportif sera un élément prépondérant de contrôle et de régulation pour faire face aux défis actuels dans le monde du football, dans lequel les Nations conservent le véritable pouvoir. / What can the political Europe and the Europe of sport do to better train young football players and to better protect them during a transfer ? This question allows us to see what is at stake in the junction between the sports and the political social field. This European football social space is divided into actors from the sports movement on one's hand, and into agents from the European institutions on the other hand. We'll demonstrate how to answer politically to a problem dealing with football, which requires a high level of political will. Thus, the policy-making process is a compromise made compulsory, both by the specificity and the sports movement autonomy, and by the weight of the national habitus. In the future, coordination between public authorities and the sports movement has been identified as a key element of control and regulation, in order to face up to the current challenges in the world of football, upon which the Nations still hold the real power.

Introduction: The purpose of a player development pathway is to realise the most effective methods to support young individuals to maximise their potential (MacNamara & Collins, 2015). Within a modern football academy setting, the essential developmental characteristics are often termed environmental, psychological, sociological, physiological, technical, and tactical attributes (Sarmento et al., 2018). Although these factors have been explained to independently facilitate the acquisition of expert performance, fully-integrated multidisciplinary evidence from an English context is unknown. Therefore, the aim of this study was two-fold; firstly, to analyse these respective features to determine what outcomes support greater age-specific performance within the Foundation Development Phase (FDP; under-9 to 11s) and Youth Development Phase (YDP; under-12 to 16s) at an English professional football academy. Following this investigation, this thesis examined what characteristics facilitated age-specific development across two football seasons within the same group. Methods: During the first season, a total of 98 outfield academy players (FDP n=40; YDP n=58) participated. Two professional coaches from each age group (n=14) ranked their players from top to bottom in relation to current ability from a holistic perspective. This created a linear classification with a group of ‘high-performers’ (top third) and ‘low-performers’ (bottom third) within both the FDP and YDP. Results were standardised using z-scores and the assumptions were tested using a two-tailed independent samples t-test. A total of 87 outfield players who progressed into the second season were further analysed within their respective phase (FDP n=36; YDP n=51). A combination of 34 holistic factors, that discriminated high- and low-performers in the initial investigation, were measured at two time points across two football seasons with the Participation History Questionnaire (PHQ), Psychological Characteristics for Developing Excellence Questionnaire (PCDEQ), socio-economic status, growth and maturation data, physical performance, technical tests, match analysis statistics, perceptual-cognitive expertise (PCE), and game test situations. Development was measured by comparing the delta change between the overall player profile scores from two seasonal reports. Stepwise regression analyses were conducted to assess the predictive capability of these variables on overall development. Results: Multiple factors from environmental, psychological, sociological, physiological, technical, and tactical examinations significantly discriminated high- and low-performers, within both the FDP and YDP. Following these initial findings, developmental results illustrated significant technical and tactical characteristics within the FDP, whilst significant environmental, physiological, technical, and tactical attributes were observed within the YDP. When focussing on these factors combined, total touches change (p=0.023), taking advantage of openings quality (p=0.003), and PCE ‘post’ score change (p=0.029) explained a combined 11.5% of the variance within the FDP. Within the YDP, PCE ‘at’ score (p=0.21), total sports played change (p=0.008), and total match-play hours (p=0.009) explained a combined 34.1% of the variance. Discussion: Identifying talented players as young as 8 years of age is a complex and holistic process. Thus, academy coaches and practitioners must understand the significant features, such as practice history and multi-sport engagement, psychological characteristics, socio-economic factors, physical performance abilities, technical attributes, and tactical decision making when identifying and recruiting individuals. From a talent development viewpoint, results from the FDP support the importance of technical and tactical development during middle childhood compared to other influential factors. From a YDP perspective, results support the significance of the environment players are exposed to, whilst also illustrating the importance of PCE as a key ingredient within adolescence, to support greater overall development. Therefore, professional football academies are encouraged to deliver technical and tactical specific developmental activities within the FDP, whilst offering a substantial games programme, alongside other opportunities to participate in multi-sport activities across both age phases, to support superior development. Further evidence is needed within an English context, through collaboration with other academy environments, to support these findings, whilst greater longitudinal data is also required to understand which of these characteristics are necessary to ultimately achieve senior professional status.