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The road to expertise in U-20 football world champions: A multi-method approach

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dc.contributor.authorSarmento, Hugo
dc.contributor.authorMartinho, Diogo
dc.contributor.authorPereira, Filipa
dc.contributor.authorPereira, Antonino
dc.contributor.authorAraújo, Duarte
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-02T10:33:58Z
dc.date.available2026-03-02T10:33:58Z
dc.date.issued2026-02-13en_US
dc.date.updated2026-02-27T15:59:50Z
dc.description.abstractPortugal’s “Gold Generation,” one of the country’s most talented groups of football players, won two U-20 World Championships in 1989 (Riyadh) and 1991 (Lisbon). This study aimed to holistically describe the development of a successful generation of Portuguese national football players and retrospectively examine the factors underlying their success. Participants included 31 of the 34 world champions, the head and assistant coaches, and seven additional influential stakeholders. Guided by an ecological dynamics framework, a multi-method design was used. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and document/website analysis, and examined using qualitative (NVivo 11.0) and quantitative (SPSS 24.0) procedures. From this analysis, we proposed the “Ecological Model of Development for the Portuguese Football Gold Generation” (EMDPFGG). Findings suggest that this generation’s success resulted from the players’ talent, combined with the active leadership and holistic vision of head coach Carlos Queiroz, and favourable sociocultural conditions in Portuguese football and sport sciences. Queiroz recognized the opportunities offered by the Portuguese sociocultural context and acted on them across both macro- and micro-levels of development, influencing training, organization, and long-term player growth. Overall, the results support the idea that coaches who challenge the status quo of training methodologies, and guide athletes toward higher performance, adopt ambitious, updated, and holistic perspectives on the constraints that shape the game, including physical, technical, psychological, cultural, and organizational factors. Such comprehensive approaches can overcome the reductionism that characterizes many scientific studies and practical applications that focus only on isolated aspects of football performance.eng
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/17479541261420672en_US
dc.identifier.issn1747-9541en_US
dc.identifier.issn2048-397Xen_US
dc.identifier.slugcv-prod-4779761
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/9720
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.relationUID/06349/2025
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectEcological dynamics
dc.subjectleadership
dc.subjectpractice design
dc.subjectsoccer
dc.subjectsociocultural constraint
dc.subjecttalent development
dc.titleThe road to expertise in U-20 football world champions: A multi-method approachen_US
dc.typeresearch articleen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.titleInternational Journal of Sports Science & Coachingen_US
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
person.familyNamePereira
person.givenNameAntonino
person.identifier.ciencia-id3F1A-82A9-79DA
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-3088-8413
person.identifier.scopus-author-id55147751100
rcaap.cv.cienciaid3F1A-82A9-79DA | Antonino Manuel de Almeida Pereira
rcaap.rightsopenAccessen_US
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