Gestão da informação no futebol feminino brasileiro e internacional e processo de seleção de talento esportivo

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Female’s soccer, in the last five years, has undergoing a process of growth and development, especially at the brazilian level. Studies on the female’s category need to be conducted to provide specific information that will be important for the selection of sports talent, training prescription and improvement of the sports level. OBJECTIVE: This doctoral thesis aims to analyze the state of the art of scientific, brazilian and international production on female's soccer in the last decade and to verify the process of talent selection in brazilian female's soccer scenario. METHODS: A systematic review of the existing scientific production in the main databases on women's soccer was carried out to identify the gaps in scientific knowledge in the area and a cross-sectional experimental study to verify the effect of relative age on the selection process of soccer players through the analysis of Brazilian Female under-20 and professionals Nationals Teams who competed in the World Cup of both categories. RESULTS: based on the results found in the systematic review on national and international scientific production, it is perceived that there are many articles on sports training and exercise physiology and that the gaps in knowledge existing in this sports category are related to technology, especially internal and external load control, social/psychological aspects of sport and injuries. Regarding the effect of relative age on the talent selection process, in the under-20 category group the percentage distribution of athletes by birth quartiles was 31.82% in the first quartile; 22.73% in the second quartile; 13.64% in the third quartile and 31.82% in the fourth quartile. In the under-20 group, there was no significant difference between the quartiles (p= 0.783). In the professional category, the distribution of athletes presented percentage values of 18.18% in the first quartile; 31.82% in the second quartile; 13.64% in the third quartile and 36.36% in the fourth quartile and there was no significant difference (p=0.671). When comparing the two categories it was possible to verify that there was no significant difference between them (p= 0.748). CONCLUSION: It is concluded that the production of scientific studies on women's soccer should be based on filling the existing knowledge gaps. In addition, there is no effect of relative age on brazilian women's soccer teams participating in the World Cups, a fact that may be changed in the future due to the development of the sport and the appearance of more practitioners.