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Introduction: In team sports like football, athlete development emerges through the continuous experience
and practice of varied activities under variations in task and environmental constraints. Such variations in
environmental and task constraints provide variable practice opportunities and experiences that promote an
enrichment of the learning process through enhanced transfer, and the discovery of individual capabilities
through diverse, functional play activities.
Objectives: In this commentary, we discuss theoretical insights that suggest how the sport of futsal can
provide a useful basis for supporting the transfer of skills to performance in association football.
Conclusions: The complementary nature of the two sports can be exploited for skill acquisition in early
diversification through emphasising selected performance–based affordances, behavioral correspondence
between sports, and self-evident advances towards task goals. By taking up futsal at an early stage, future
football players will have the opportunity to explore futsal tactical behaviors that will enrich their developing
perceptual-motor landscape.
Practial Implications: To ensure a complementary transfer of capabilities between the sports, coaching
interventions should highlight informational constraints to improve the coupling of perception and action in
players in futsal and association football and promote the utilization of relevant affordances available in
practice task designs.
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Donor sport Transfer Expertise Basic movement skills
Citation
Bruno Travassos, Duarte Araújo & Keith Davids (2017): Is futsal a donor sport for football?: exploiting complementarity for early diversification in talent development, Science and Medicine in Football, DOI: 10.1080/24733938.2017.1390322