The road to excellence in women's football: a retrospective cohort study over the last 30 years with Swiss national players

B Charbonnet, MJ Schmid, M Örencik… - … and Medicine in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives This study examines the training (age at club entry, hours in club practice, free
play, other sports) and environmental characteristics (popularity, media coverage, school …

[HTML][HTML] Examining the effect of task constraints on the emergence of creative action in young elite football players by using a method combining expert judgement and …

T de Joode, J van der Kamp… - Psychology of Sport and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In adult football, small-sided games are associated with increased action variability and
suggested to promote more creative actions compared to regular 11v11 formats. This aligns …

Skill shapes functional movement variability and exploration tendencies: the effect of skill under changing environmental constraints on the emergence of creative …

D Orth, J van der Kamp, D Memmert… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Creative actions are both functional and unique, furnishing significant performance
advantages in sport. We examined the proposition that the occurrence of creative actions …

Does a coach's reputation affect an athlete's creativity in team sports?

MK Asare, M Schnitzer - Sport, Business and Management: An …, 2025 - emerald.com
Purpose Leadership is a key factor that shapes an athlete's development, also within team
sports; most of this responsibility falls on the coaches. The purpose of this paper is to provide …

[HTML][HTML] Creativity in sports: The crucial role of motor skills

S Zahno - Journal of Creativity, 2024 - Elsevier
What enables athletes to perform creative actions in their sports? In the last two decades,
sports studies have predominantly assumed that divergent thinking (DT) is the key …

When insights based on ecological and cognitive theories to movement science converge—The case of creativity in sports

S Zahno, J van der Kamp - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In sports, athletes strive for highly efficient and functional actions that make them competitive
in their discipline. These actions are considered creative when they are also unforeseen, for …

Creativity is contextual: A narrative review of motor creativity tests from an ecological perspective

YS Lee, P Iodice, J Komar - Motor Control, 2023 - journals.humankinetics.com
This narrative review seeks to compare the various ways in which motor creativity has been
measured and to critically evaluate those methods within the context of our contemporary …

[PDF][PDF] Journal of Creativity

S Zahno - researchgate.net
What enables athletes to perform creative actions in their sports? In the last two decades,
sports studies have predominantly assumed that divergent thinking (DT) is the key …

[PDF][PDF] VU Research Portal

D Orth, J van der Kamp, D Memmert, G Savelsbergh - research.vu.nl
Creative actions are both functional and unique, furnishing significant performance
advantages in sport. We examined the proposition that the occurrence of creative actions …