ADVANCED COURSE IN THE METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF TEAM SPORTS
CORSO AVANZATO DI METODI E TECNICHE DEGLI SPORT DI SQUADRA
A.Y. | Credits |
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2025/2026 | 9 |
Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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Riccardo Izzo | Tuesday 11h am, by appointment |
Teaching in foreign languages |
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Course partially taught in a foreign language
English
Spanish
This course is taught partially in Italian and partially in a foreign language. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course is aimed at acquiring the fundamental theoretical, methodological and didactic principles of the major team sports from a scientific point of view with the help of the latest generation advanced technologies dedicated to sports in general and specifically to team sports. The course also aims at mastering the concepts and procedures that characterize the professional structure of the discipline. Knowledge of the founding theories and design practices of the working method, also with field and/or streaming activities, in high-level realities which also constitute essential training elements for the exercise of professionalism. Finally, as a transversal element, the student will know the technical-tactical as well as physical elements of basketball in a taxonomic setting dedicated to the so-called second youth age group, that is, from 16 to 20 years.
Program
First semester
-Contextualization of the basic preparation level of students for a more adequate study proposal.
-Technical, didactic and methodological aspects for the construction, review of the high-level and basic work project, emphasizing the concept of optimization.
-Training planning and periodization.
-The multi-year project: the second youth group, 16-20 years.
-Analysis of youth training and its peculiarities.
The MAS, Systematic analytical monitoring as a method of controlling the work carried out during training work: application phase and use in different team sports.
-Summary notes for the ages 16-20 years.
-Standard regulation of a high-level team.
-use of the match strategy planner.
-General summary of work in the first youth group: U-13/U-15
-Specific work in the second youth group: U-16/U-20
Second semester, more attention will be paid to:
case studies, with seminars/webinars held by personalities from the professional world of the most practiced national and international team sports.
Bridging Courses
Rereading of the program of the subject TTD Team Sports of the first level degree
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
The student must show possession of the mastery of in-depth knowledge relating to:
- the current epistemological structure of the discipline with particular reference to its constituent elements (methodologies and problems) and relations with other related disciplines, such as for example physiology and psychology; adequate knowledge of the advanced technologies dedicated to the discipline and knowledge of performance analysis and of the basic mathematical-statistical principles aimed at the adequate development of scientific field work projects.
- The student will have to show an understanding of the concepts and theories set forth in the course; you will have to provide examples of transposition into projects based both in a methodological and didactic sense and in a training sense at the various levels; be able to analyze an entry report and a Match Strategy Planner (game plan) or a teaching schedule, identifying any critical issues and strengths.
- The student must be able, in particular, to identify programming methodologies and methodological-didactic readjustment suitable to team sports contexts; simulate the design of specific work plans at least for the sports of basketball, football, volleyball and rugby;
-propose some hypotheses of intervention dedicated to different problems such as, for example, rehabilitation of injured players or of a preventive nature.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
In conjunction with the material provided on blended learning, for a lesson by lesson recap of the program a part of the course will include on-site or streaming visits to high-level sports organizations, with work data collection using professional tools such as MAS and others, to establish a database for comparison with personal work ideas and projects. Webinars with national and international experts are also planned in the second part of the course (second semester), with ample opportunity to interact with the speakers. A short session of self-assessment tests will also be proposed to allow students to identify any gaps created during the course so as to be able to better adapt their preparation.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures, national and international webinars/seminars and practical exercises. Active observation in streaming, where not possible in the presence, of top-level sports realities regarding the application of the principles of modern performance analysis.
- Innovative teaching methods
- Attendance
Mandatory 50% attendance.
It will be useful for the student to watch a certain number of films, including educational ones, of various team sports, especially those of personal interest, in order to better internalize the specialist elements provided by the course and carefully contextualize the personal preparation also with a view to structuring the experimental and/or compilation thesis on the discipline.
- Course books
Fundamental basic text:
Taxonomy of Motor and Sports Training Systematic, methodological, didactic and technical-tactical indications for youth sports at different ages. The example of basketball. Riccardo E. Izzo, Edizioni NonSoloFitness, Bologna 2021. (For the taxonomic part only the one concerning U-16 and U-18/20. Specifically: Ch. 6 and 7 as a review of the work done during L-22, also for students possibly coming from different universities. Ch. 8 only second adolescence, 16-20 years. Ch, 9 third and fourth stage. Ch. 10 complete, Ch. 11 MAS, to be reviewed and its application explored in depth, Ch. 12 Complete, Ch. 13 Only U-16/U-19-20
A choice for personal study of one of the following texts:
1-Teaching minibasket. From emotion to play, from first knowledge to skills, , Maurizio Cremonini, Lucio Bortolussi, Roberta Regis, Calzetti Mariucci, 2016, Perugia.
2-Adriano Guidetti, Giovanni Guidetti, Winning Volleyball: From Serie A to Minivolley, Calzetti and Mriucci 2013 Perugia.
3-Ettore Messina, Basketball, Defense, Counterattack, Attack, Team Preparation, Zanichelli ED, Bologna 2003.
4-Football Manual of the Coverciano School.
5-Rugby Training Manual of the Rugby Federation.
- Assessment
Oral examination for a complete verification of the knowledge concerning the course.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Please note that in addition to the traditional lectures, there will be national and international webinars and practical exercises. Active observation in streaming, where not possible in person, of high-level sports events, streaming events and webinars of which connection links will be available traceable on blended-learning within the limits set by the School and University regulations.
- Attendance
50% attendance. Mandatory to have the possibility to take the exam
- Course books
Fundamental basic text:
Taxonomy of Motor and Sports Training Systematic, methodological, didactic and technical-tactical indications for youth sports at different ages. The example of basketball. Riccardo E. Izzo, Edizioni NonSoloFitness, Bologna 2021. (For the taxonomic part only the one concerning U-16 and U-18/20. Specifically: Ch. 6 and 7 as a review of the work done during L-22, also for students possibly coming from different universities. Ch. 8 only second adolescence, 16-20 years. Ch, 9 third and fourth stage. Ch. 10 complete, Ch. 11 MAS, to be reviewed and its application explored in depth, Ch. 12 Complete, Ch. 13 Only U-16/U-19-20
A choice for personal study of one of the following texts:
1-Teaching minibasket. From emotion to play, from first knowledge to skills, , Maurizio Cremonini, Lucio Bortolussi, Roberta Regis, Calzetti Mariucci, 2016, Perugia.
2-Adriano Guidetti, Giovanni Guidetti, Winning Volleyball: From Serie A to Minivolley, Calzetti and Mriucci 2013 Perugia.
3-Ettore Messina, Basketball, Defense, Counterattack, Attack, Team Preparation, Zanichelli ED, Bologna 2003.
4-Football Manual of the Coverciano School.
5-Rugby Training Manual of the Rugby Federation.
- Assessment
Oral examination for a complete verification of the knowledge concerning the course.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Notes
It is suggested that you thoroughly study the material offered on blended learning about the subject. Of course, for everything related to external or streaming activities, it could be a problem to find the audio-video material, so the teacher is available (Tue 11h am by app.) to clarify certain elements covered during student receptions or at times established together.
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