أتشرف بدعوتكم للمشاركة في الإجابة على الاستبيان ،لتحقيق متطلبات الحصول على درجة الدكتوراه بكلية علوم الرياضة والنشاط البدني بجامعة الملك سعود، وتسعى الدراسة للتعرف على *أثر سلوك التطوع في الأحداث الرياضية الكبرى على تعزيز قيم الهوية الوطنية لدى عينة من أفراد المجتمع السعودي*
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🔒 الإجابات سرّية وتُستخدم لأغراض البحث العلمي فقط.
🚨 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑭𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍 - new publication
⚽️ 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑭𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝑨𝒏 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑫𝒚𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆
From rigid playbooks and prescribed patterns ➡️ to adaptive, principle-based frameworks shaped through player-environment interactions.
Excited to share our latest paper has now been published in the 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 as part of the special issue: Applied Football Science in Coaching and Performance.
The paper explores how Game Models in football can be reconceptualised through an ecological dynamics perspective, moving beyond rigid systems and prescriptive structures toward adaptable frameworks that support perception, decision-making, problem-solving, and player-environment interaction.
A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to the discussions, challenges, and ideas that have shaped this work, and what this could mean for future research in:
• Coach Education
• Practice Design
• Methodology Departments
• Feedback & Coach Behaviour
• Talent Development
• Performance Analysis
• Game Models
This paper positions its contribution as a conceptual framework intended to guide future research and applied practice.
What may be most original within this paper is the attempt to reconceptualise Game Models in football, not as a deterministic blueprint of pre-planned patterns and prescribed solutions, but as a flexible scaffold that supports adaptive player and team behaviours within the evolving constraints of competition.
The paper also introduces the idea of:
• 𝑻𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒔 that guide perception and action within game-specific situations.
• The Transition Nexus, where moments of transition become attentional recalibration points requiring adaptation, reorganisation, and co-ordination.
• Coach feedback as player challenges, where questions, prompts, and informational guidance are used to shape players’ visual search and affordance perception without prescribing ready-made answers.
From this perspective, Game Models become tools for designing representative learning environments that support perception-action coupling, player autonomy, adaptability, and co-adaptive team behaviours.
Read here:
https://t.co/hlhmq9qy7M
Jones, G., Kubayi, A., Stone, J. A., & Davids, K. (2026). Game models in football coaching: an ecological dynamics perspective. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 1–18. https://t.co/1qY5R9Smlq
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🚨🏆 Musab Al Juwayr confirmed himself as one of the brightest young midfielders after winning the "Best Saudi Player of the Season" award with Al Qadsiah.
Musab also ranked alongside names like Nico Paz & Rayan Cherki among the best U22 AMs worldwide ▶️ https://t.co/Xf4YHi5Zlo
تعرفون البيت اللي يقول:
*دربٍ تجيه اليوم لا تزرعه شوك*
*يمكن تجي له بعد يومين حافي*
هذي الابيات كاملة من أروع القصائد للشاعر/ عبدالله الطلحي
لاضاقت الدنيا والأصحاب خَلّوك
سِج القِدَم في واسعات الفيافي
وْلاجيت لك شِعبٍ من السيل مدكوك
تضرب على جاله هبوب السوافي
فاجمع حطبك وْشِب ضوّك وأنا أخوك
وإرك الدِلال وجعلها لك عوافي
وزْرار ثوبك لو تخلّيه مفكوك
أخير لك من صكّتِه يا السنافي
يومٍ تضاَيق فيه ماهوب مبروك
سيّر وتلقى لك ربوع وْملافي
إضحك وباب الرِزق ماهوب مصكوك
رزقٍ قِسَمه الله بياتيك وافي
ولا تهوجس في مشاريع وبْنوك
وسَهم العقارية وسهم المصافي
مافات راح وْما بقى منك متروك
لاتحسب إن جَوّك على طول صافي
العمر مرّة ما بها ظن وشكوك
وإليا إنتهى مافيه شَوطٍ إضافي
ما دامت الدنيا لحِكّام وملوك
أقفت بهم شِهب السنين العجافي
لا تجازي المخطين بالمِثل لاأوذوك
أبعد بخير وسِتر الأجواد ضافي
دربٍ تجيه اليوم لا تزرعه شوك
يمكن تجي له بعد يومين حافي
Two men. Same game. Completely different eyes.
Pep sees football as a puzzle. Every movement pre-designed, every pass a calculation. He doesn’t want to win the ball back he wants to make sure you never have it in the first place. Control isn’t a tactic to him with him a philosophy art in his form.
Enrique sees football as a war. Structure matters, yes but so does chaos so does personality. He wants players who can think, adapt, suffer and still execute his teams don’t just play a system they embody a mentality.
what makes this photo so powerful is that these two men stood in the same midfield together yet looked at the game through completely different lenses even then. One obsessed with order. One obsessed with intensity.
Both became the best managers of their generation.
New research challenges a common assumption in football:
More training load ≠ better match performance.
High-intensity actions (sprints, accelerations, decelerations) predicted match outputs, but tactical context determined whether players could actually express those capacities.
⚽️Possession, pressing and playing style changed everything.
Stop analysing GPS data in isolation.
📈Total weekly distance did not predict match performance.
⚡️High-intensity training variables did predict match outputs:
Context matters. Match context changes everything
Coaches, instead of thinking: "Let's hit our distance target"....start to shift thinking to
"Let's expose players to the movement demands they will need on match day."
I would have these debates with fitness coaches at first-team level, as Physical data without tactical context can be misleading...This is highly relevant for elite environments.
Fitness Coaches may say "but players only sprinted Xm today..." but the better interpretation could be....was the game played in a controlled possession structure with fewer transition moments?
GPS metrics should not be interpreted in isolation.
Coaches should consider how they design more representative match environments that are realistic, whilst considering:
Opponent + style + environmental constraints + individual constraints + expected tactical demands
Lasting message...Behaviour emerges from context
Banoocy, N., Lopez Lopez, D., Mainer-Pardos, E., & Nobari, H. (2026). Impact of weekly external load on elite soccer match running performance: The moderating role of technical-tactical context [Preprint].
2/2...las variables de gestión de cargas son adecuadas, el jugador se adapta o sobrevive al estímulo de entrenamiento, podemos controlar el aspecto multifactorial de las lesiones, especialización temprana❓
♻️ ¿Necesitamos un cambio de paradigma del entrenamiento en fútbol?
13 Game Principles | The Game vs The Position
Is the player just acting like a winger, only repeating "winger" movements?
Or is he playing as a possessor and receiver, understanding the game from a position, with the freedom (and the game’s demand) to move beyond it?
THREAD 🧵: Proprioception, the game-changing skill no one talks about. 🫣
You've been several to ask me what proprioception is exactly, and how you can rate it as a scout or improve it through training. 🧙♂️
All things I'm going to answer here : ⬇️
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⚽️ من الطبيعي أن الجميع 👀📺 ويستمتع بها وأن يلعبها 🏃🏼♂️ كهواية..
لكن من غير الطبيعي أن 🧐🔍 📈📊 التفاصيل فيها كل شخص..
هل نشاهد من يتحدّث ويذكر التفاصيل
في 🕋 و🩺 و👷♂️ ….
لكن على قولهم
هيّه 👨🔬🧪⚗️ كيمياء