Abstract

SANTOS, Walmir Romário dos  and  MENEZES, Rafael Pombo. Team handball players' specialization from coaches' speeches. CPD [online]. 2019, vol.19, n.3, pp.47-61.  Epub June 22, 2020. ISSN 1989-5879.

The aim of this work was to analyze the training process of handball players, based on the coaches' opinions regarding the categories and the reasons considered preponderant for their specialization. Six coaches were interviewed, whose speeches were analyzed based on the Collective Subject Discourse method. From the coaches' speeches and the comparisons with different authors, the specialization of the goalkeepers should preferably take place in the u-16 teams, while the specialization of court players in the u-18 teams. The results shows an important guideline for the specialization of handball players in a long term context, with different prerogatives for goalkeepers and court players, but considering environments with sampling practices.

Keywords : Sport pedagogy; Sport specialization; Teaching; Team handball.

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