Table 4.
Study | Sample | Main Variables | Procedure | Results | Quality Score |
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Pastor-Vicedo, Prieto-Ayuso [22] | 97 youth football players (from u-10 to u-14 age group), which 18 was identified—talent pool—and 1087 actions. | The process of decision-making | The Nomination Scale for Identifying Football Talent was utilized to screen the talent pool (n = 18), and the Game Performance Evaluation Tool was used for analyzing the 1087 actions completed. | The effectiveness must be more than 80% for children to be considered talented. A greater effectiveness of DMUs was shown in older age groups. | 87.5% |
Álvarez-Kurogi, Onetti [23] | 167 young futsal players from 14 years old to 19 years old (candidates for the Spanish National Futsal Team, competing at the highest level in the U16 and U19 categories) | Psychological characteristics and their influence in performance | Questionnaires about their physical person (height, weight, age), their social-demographic characteristics as a futsal player and psychological profile. | Goalkeepers had the best psychological profile and characteristics related to SP. Pivots and wing-pivots had less self-confidence, and universals players, less stress control in relation to the rest of the playing positions. |
81.3% |
Bennett, Novak [24] | 328 academy youth soccer players from three developmental stages: late childhood (8.0–10.9 year), early adolescence (11.0–13.9 year) and mid-adolescence (14.0–16.9 year). | Decision-making capacity | Video-based decision-making assessment, with response accuracy and response time recorded for various attacking situations. | Response times were significantly faster in early and mid-adolescent players when compared to those in the late childhood group. An overall decline in decision-making performance was observed from the 2 vs. 1 to the 4 vs. 3 situations. |
75.0% |
Duncan, Oppici [25] | 23 male futsal athletes (11 players of an expert European futsal team and 12 amateur players-mean age: 28.7 ± 4.9 years). | Electro-cortical activity and reaction time | Congruent and incongruent trials of a modified Flanker task on a customized computer screen. | There was a significant difference in reaction time and error rate in congruent and incongruent task performance, and difference in electro-cortical activity between groups in the performance of both congruent and incongruent tasks. | 75.0% |
Moreira, Da Silva Matias [26] | 30 futsal players aged 9 years from two different teams (15 players in each team). | Teaching-learning-training processes in tactical knowledge | Global analytical method. | Training methods lefted on decision making and development of tactical abilities are indicated to better promote the development of players capable of intelligent and creative actions. | 56.3% |
Ferreira Junior, de Almeida [47] | 9 male sub-20 futsal players, aged between 17 and 20 years. | Decision-making capacity and declarative knowledge | Questionnaires about decision-making in variable situations. | The decision taken for the athlete and its justification, in some situations, were not ideal from the point of view of “experts”. | 57.1% |