Periodização Tática - Jorge Maciel

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Tactical Periodization
A Science with Art...
... But without Academic pretensions!!!
Jorge Maciel
October 9, 2013

2. Vitor Frade
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.For decades Vitor Frade
has been systematizing,
r a t i o n a l i z i n g a n d
anticipating knowledge
from different areas...
. By always bearing in mind
the football as a tangible
scientific goal.
. He has created an “in
v i v o ” s c i e n c e , a
Praxeology…
. … by combining theory
and practice.
. Everybody was right, but
him?!

3. Vitor Frade
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«When someone told him that a book, called “A Hundred
Authors against Einstein”, was published, he replied by
asking: “Why one hundred?! If I was wrong, one would be
enough. »
.For decades Vitor Frade
has been systematizing,
r a t i o n a l i z i n g a n d
anticipating knowledge
from different areas...
. By always bearing in mind
the football as a tangible
scientific goal.
. He has created an “in
v i v o ” s c i e n c e , a
Praxeology…
. … by combining theory
and practice.
. Everybody was right, but
him?!

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What’s Tactical
Periodization?
It’s a football training methodology, which regards the
training process as a teaching and learning process.
It is based and managed upon proper methodological
principles, which completely break off with those
conventionally established.
It’s sustained upon a marginal and marginalized scientific
sustainability.

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Scientific Support
!
. Transgressive and Interdisciplinar
scientification (more than
Multidisciplinar it’s Interdisciplinar)
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. A Qualatitive approach
!
. Neuroscience, Biochemistry,
Physiology, Dynamical Systems
Theory, Chaos Theory, Fractal
Geometry, Thermodynamics, Theory
of Systemic Models, Ecogenetics,
Motor Learning, Biomechanics,
Anatomy, Topology, Anthropology,
Biology, Sports Training Theory,
Cybernetics, Physics...

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Purposes
To bring out a special game style – a molded,
shared and collective intentionality.
To develop a hand in hand know-how, plus the
right skills to apply and achieve that know-
how.
To merge the intentionality (expressed in
action) with the previous intention.
To incorporate a game style.

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Assumptions
To recognize this process as a complex and dynamic reality.
To recognize the human being who is playing – the human being
when interacting.
To recognize the body as a dynamic and intelligent reality.
To recognize the football’s essence (collective and plural)
To have a Game Philosophy (complex)
Training = Competition
Training can’t be a punishment (Passion)
“Who only knows about football, don’t knows football”
Vitor Frade

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Why such designation?
Periodization: we need to temporally (not
linearly) divide the required game style, into
two levels: Season (Macro); Weekly (Micro).
Tactics: is assumed as a Supra Dimension, that
that molds its process.

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How to understand it?
What the meaning of it?
Tactic????!!!!
“I see this tactic as an emergency that requires, in a special
way, all the other dimensions. This tactic emergency process
equals that of chefs that handle their seasonings in order to
bring out special and unique flavors”.
Vitor Frade
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Tactics: is a dynamic and complex reality that manifests itself as
an intentional organizational interdependency. (A Specific Football
Culture)

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Specificity (Key-Word)
Specificity emerges from a collective
intentionality achievement (Tactics) within a
given context, and from this process results
a game identity, a singular game style.
Note: it is an identifier probabilistic notion
when it manifested itself as a regularity
(Standard / Pattern), and at the same time
an emergency and a utopia.
It’s what identifies and differentiates all the different game styles. The
Game Style is an Emergency of the Training Process

11. Game Model: What’s this?!
(Key-Word)
Game Philosophy
Medical Department
Training Methodology
Operationalization
Press
Competitive reality
Players
Arbitrations
Club
Arbitration Sponsors
Country culture
Sponsors
Supporters / Fans
Beliefs
Maliciousness
Rivalries ...
“The Model is eveything” the interaction between the visble, the invisible,
the speakable and the unspeakable

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Game Model: What’s this?!
(Key-Word)
Game Philosophy
Medical Department
Training Methodology
Operationalization
Press
Competitive reality
Players
Arbitrations
Club
Arbitration Sponsors
Country culture
Sponsors
Supporters / Fans
Beliefs
Maliciousness
Rivalries ...
“The Model is everything”, it’s the interaction between the visible, the
invisible, the speakable and the unspeakable.

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Game Model
A necessary impossible
"The model is something that does not exist, which, nevertheless, we intend
to find out.” Vitor Frade
Vitor Frade
The Model is permeable to the context. However, it is all the
more selective within its permeability when all the more
coherent and consistent the complex and dynamic process’s
operationalization is.

14. Methodological Matrix
(Methodological Principles)
Macro Dimension
Scientific Dimension
Unexpected
Dimension
(Micro)
“for the detail
there is no
equation”
Conceptual Matrix (Game Style,
Main Principles and SubPrinciples)
Macro Dimension
Scienitific Dimension
Modeling Process
Articulation With Sense
A complex conjunction between the Macro and Micro Dimensions of
the process (Cocktail)
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Methodological Matrix
Methodological Principles

16. Methodological Principle of Complex Progression
Methodological Principle of Propensities
Methodological Principle of Horizontal Alternation in specifity
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Methodological Matrix
Methodological Principles
Only these three, and within a close connection!!!!
Specificity is not a methodological principle, for it is
above that! SupraPrinciple!!!

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Methodological Principle
of Complex Progression
From the less complex to the more
complex, but always within complexity
instead of quantity / volume, the
emphasis is focused upon quality /
intensity.
Nonlinear Progression - Spiraled (the
process is made from progresses and
regressions according to a referential
that over determines it).

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Methodological Principle
of Complex Progression
The process is managed in the border with chaos:
conflict caused by the need of stability without
crystallization (feeding the process).
The complex dynamics between a priori Quantification
and a posteriori Quantification (Hierarchy of
Principles).

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Methodological principle that enables that the chaos is definitely deterministic by
modeling the practice contexts.
For what purpose? To create contexts related to a Game Style, allowing thus a
density increase from what we want as regularity. That is, interactions that, once
done, they make exponentially emerge the underlying criteria of our Game Principles.
To mold the context so that it can be a facilitator and catalyst of our purposes, and
so that what it may manifests is consistent with what we want.
Note: we train standardized intentionality, not behaviors!
Methodological Principle
of Propensities
“PT It is much more the Art of Trajectories than the
Theory of Targets” Vitor Frade

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Methodological Principle of
Horizontal Alternation in specifity
Purposes:
Habituation to a methodological invariance (Standard Morfocycle)
Safeguard the necessary "freshness" when in competition without
compromising the Game Style evolution
Non-massification of the involved and needed structures for the
Game Style effectiveness
Inducing an adaptability at a single level that may allow a
qualitative manifestation of the molded, shared and collective
intentionality (single adaptability - players - over determined by
collective purposes - Conceptual Matrix, and not necessarily done
within single contexts)

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Muscular contraction
Dominance
Tension Duration Velocity
Intensity
Emocional Impact
Concentration
Discontinuity
Exercitation Time
Recovery Time
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Ensuring the
Required Metabolic
Matrix
Colors Simbology
Aspects to Consider
Game Style
Dimensions
(Macro, Meso, Micro)
Team
Dimensions
(Individual, Group,
Sectorial, Intersectorial,
Collective)

22. FIFA Regulation (at least 72 hours between matches)
Empirical Evidence (Coaches who face high density football
matches recognized this as a necessity - Rotativity)
Conventional Knowledge (Overcompensation Principle; Physiological
test)
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4 Days Rule

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Muscle Glycogen
4 Days Rule!!!
Jens Bangsbo 2008

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4 Days Rule!!!
Fatigue is an important part of the training
process but it requires recovery
The Adjustment Problem
To acquire implies to create conditions to acquire!!!

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Standard Morfocycle
The Weekly Standard Pattern (performance and recovery)
Training implies tiredness but also create conditions to train and compete in conditions of
transcendence
Match Recovery Acquisitive Operationalization
Recovery and
Preactivation
Match
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
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Standard Morfocycle
Morfocycle is the temporal space between two
football matches
Articulation between the Methodological
Principles
This is the correct operationalization of this
matrix - methodological - in the continuity
that allows that the collective dynamic to bo
dynamically expressed dynamically
It dependes on it the global configuration of
the season (Mother Cell / Hard Core of the
process - since the begining of the season)

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Monday
Day off
White Day (players paint it as they
want)
Free day is free day (without follies)
Different ways to enjoy (without
significance in a week of work)
Day after the Macth (good sense Vs
physiological point of view)

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Muscular contraction
Dominance
Tension
-
Duration
-
Velocity
-
Scale of the Match Style:
Individual, Group, Sectorial, Intersectorial
!
Subprinciples and SubSubPrinciples
Emocional Impact
-
Discontinuity (density of performances)
+
Tuesday
Recovery playing
Light Green: recover without lose specificity
Focus on the same matrix that motivated fatigue
Short times of exercise and long periods of
recovery between exercises or repetitions
Small spaces and number of players
Low complexity
For players who are not in the recovery training
will be required a performance that can recreate
the competition

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Muscular contraction
Dominance
Tension
+++
Duration
-
Velocity
+
Scale of the Match Style:
Individual, Group, Sectorial, Intersectorial
!
Subprinciples and SubSubPrinciples
Emocional Impact
+
Discontinuity (density of performances)
+++
Wednesday
Subprinciples and SubSubPrinciples day under
tension of muscle contraction
Blue: Full recovery?! Dimension constituent of
Green - part of the game style
Practical contexts with enough hindrance.
Short times of exercise and long periods of
recovery between exercises or repetitions
Small spaces and number of players (in order to
ensure the desire dominances)
The most discontinuous of the training sessions

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Muscular contraction
Dominance
Tension
++
Duration
+
Velocity
-
Scale of the Match Style:
Intersectorial, Colletctive
!
MajorPrinciples
Emocional Impact
++
Discontinuity (density of performances)
+/-
Green: the match experienced in a more
controlled and intencional way
The Standard of performance and effort
resembles the competition
Experience high levels of complexity (large spaces
and significant number of players)
The most exhausting training session
The most uninterrupted training session
(uninterrupted with interruptions)
Four Days Rule
Thursday
MajorPrinciples Day

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Muscular contraction
Dominance
Tension
-/+
Duration
--
Velocity
-/+
Scale of the Match Style:
Individual, Group, Sectorial, Intersectorial
!
Subprinciples and SubSubPrinciples
Emocional Impact
-/+
Discontinuity (density of performances)
--
Light Yellow: Double need (recover and activate)
Revive and awakening
Contexts that recreate the game (in contexts that
recreate the Game in its smaller levels)
Experienced with a very low density and duration
(recover instead of induce fatigue)
The configuration of the exercises can be variable
(the key is to ensure the targeted purposes)
Saturday
Day to recover and activate

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Standard Morfocycle
An Algorithm for different contexts and circumstances
5 days between matches
Match Match
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
4 days between matches
Match Match
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Midwek match
Match Match Match
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

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Standard Morfocycle
An Algorithm for different contexts and circumstances
3 Training sessions
Match Match
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
3 Training sessions
Match Match
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
3 Training sessions
Match Match
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

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7 days between matches
Match Match
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday
7 days between matches
Match Match
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday
A Training session
divided in two
training days
Standard Morfocycle
An Algorithm for different contexts and circumstances

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Conceptual Matrix
Game Style Principles
This Methodology of training requires an Idea of Game
(Complex and systematized).
Any type of Culture is supported by its own Values
Game Principles as main Values (invariances)
The Game Style Principles must be operational concepts!!!
There are no Cultures / Values on the Paper
Football is an action issue!!!

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The Game’s Principles: intencionality patterns related with
our Game Idea, which underpin the criteria expressed by
the various scales of the team (individual, sectoral,
intersectoral, collective), and which, by regularly
manifesting themselves, they do give an identity and
functionality in the different Moments of the Game.
They are, therefore, interaction Ideals (cooperative and
conflictual) that occur whithin probabilistic scope.
Game Style Principles
Main Principles: General outlines of our Identity (Macro)
SubPrinciples: intermediate portions which support and embody that identity (Meso)
SubSubPrinciples: details aspects a priori unknown, because they arise from the process
dynamics and emerge overdetermined by the higher levels of complexity, though without
losing their identity

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Defensive
Organization
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Close the
central zone
Superiority
in the ball
zone...
High and
coordenated
Pressure
Positional
OrganizationChoose
the right
time to
pressure
know how to
use the
offside
Pressing
Zone
(to be Intelligent)
Macro
Principles
Micro
Principles
Meso
Principles

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Close the
central zone
Superiority
in the ball
zone...
High and
coordenated
Pressure
Positional
OrganizationChoose
the right
time to
pressure
know how to
use the
offside
Pressing
Zone
Macro
Principles
Micro
Principles
Meso
Principles
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Defensive
Organization
They must be coherently articulated with what you want when
your team has the ball, loses the ball and wins the ball!!! We need
fluidity during the diferents Moments of the Game.
When we talk about Defensive Organization we can’t forget its
involvement and connection with the other Game Moments.
(Offensive Organization, Transition from Attack to Defense and
Transition from Defense to Attack.
Mind you, these benchmarks are based upon a given Game
Philosophy!!!

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Sense of Divine Proportion
MetaPrinciple
Some Coaches have it, others don’t!!

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Attention: internet informations usually with low
credibility
Readding Suggestions

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Thank You Very Much
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Jorge Maciel

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Amateur Football = Passion
It must be imperative to be collective
Don’t waste time with unnecessary things (Is time a Problem?! Is
the Players’ Professional life a Problem?!)
Playing football must be dominant so that we can emerge a
great game style
Football is fun (everybody likes to play it, so train it as you play
it)
Competition and footbal games should never cease
A TEAM = A FAMILY
Be Proud to represent your club, your homelands, your people...
The Coach has a great space to prepare himself and learn by getting into contact with a
less pressure reality, though with less conditions (usually)

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Youth Football = Passion
To Create a Club Culture that aspires the TOP!
The Coach must Learn by preparing himself for the future within diferent circumstances
and levels (especially in diferent countries, in wich he needs to put himself inside the
players’ heads)
It must be imperative to be collective
Playing football must be the dominance in a fluidity way
The ball as primacy
At younger ages propensities are fundamental (Plasticity=
Specificity)
Competition and footbal games must be incessant
Accordingly to our Club Culture, we must recreate exercises and a
street Football’s spirit in all clubs

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Professional Football = Passion
It must be imperative to be collective
Don’t waste time with unnecessary things (Is time a Problem?!)
You must believe in a Game Style and feel confortable with the
way you build it
You must be coherent
There are many things that shall be under your (coaching staff)
control, but there many other things that you just can’t guess
them by anticipation (It’s a mix between Art and Science)
Although a profession, it must always and foremost a Passion!!!

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Thank You Very Much
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Jorge Maciel