Systematic review of declarative tactical knowledge evaluation tools based on game-play scenarios in soccer

Abstract In the last two decades, analysis of tactical knowledge has become a research channel increasing interest, contributing to development ad-hoc tools carry out this task. The aim study is collect evaluation which allow measure declarative (DTK) in soccer. Five databases (Web Sciences, Pub Med, SportDiscus, Psycinfo and Eric) were used for literature search based on PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items Systematic Review Meta-Analyses) guidelines, according five inclusion/exclusion criteria: (i) that determinate DTK soccer players, (ii) come from primary sources, is, published first time, (iii) show game-play scenarios video sequences or static images via questionnaires, (iv) have been submitted process validity reliability, (v) avoid use verbal language. Nine selected analyzed systematic review: Soccer decision-making tests (McMorris, Percept Mot Ski 85(2):467, 1997), Protocol (Mangas, Conhecimento declarativo no futebol: Estudo comparativo em praticantes federados e não-federados, do escalão de sub-14, Dissertação Mestrado, Faculdade Desporto da Universidade Porto, 1999), Questionnaire comprehension applied football—CECTAF—(De la Vega, Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte, 2002. https://repositorio.uam.es/bitstream/handle/10486/1723/11535_vega_marcos_ricardodela.pdf?sequence=1 ), Decision making instrument (Fontana, decision soccer, Master’s degree dissertation, University Pittsburgh, 2004. http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/10124/ Game Understanding Test (Blomqvist et al., Phys Educ Sport Pedagogy 10(2):107–119, 2005), Offensive Football Tactical Knowledge Test—TCTOF—(Serra-Olivares García-López, Revista Internacional De Medicina Ciencias La Actividad Física Del Deporte 16(63):521–536, 2016. https://doi.org/10.15366/rimcafd2016.63.008 Video-based test (Keller Int J Sports Sci Coach 13(6):1057–1066, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747954118760778 Decision-Making form IOS application (Bennett Med 22(6):729–734, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2018.12.011 ) TacticUP (Machado Teoldo, Front Psychol, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01690 ). Most did not pass many criteria proposed assess their quality. Fundamentally, it can be concluded few specific scores game principles subroles identifying possible points improvement players aspects game. For reason, other findings found review, future studies should consider: importance designing reflect subroles; advantages disadvantages sequences; need design access young children; requirement present person; essentiality facing designed rigorous processes reliability.