ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the varying factors affecting the process of tactical creativity development, ranging across training-related variables such as quantity of deliberate practice and play, diversification, and the quality of coaching and motivational instructions throughout talent development. Sport biographical studies indicate that “deliberate play” during youth influences the development of creativity in national team and national league players. While small-sided games have become more and more popular for the improvement of technical skills and aerobic fitness components of performance, one-dimension games can develop general and sport-specific tactical skills. The main aim of one-dimension games is to have players learn divergent, tactical thinking in complex and dynamic situations, which means that they train single basic tactical components through a great amount of continuously repeating comparable tactical constellations. Working with instructions in exercise-centered and more structured situations with the goal to effectively improve specific individual performance criteria is referred to as “deliberate practice”.
