The specificity of 6-a-sided small side games in soccer

Abstract

The specificityof practice in soccerhas been associated with the similarities withthe real game, and also thesesimilarities or specificity is known to be the main reason of the training process. Nowadays, coaches tend to use exercises named as small-sided games (SSG), which can differ a lot depending on the general rules of each SSG, rules such as:number of players, field size, specific rules of the game (a maximum number of touches, different kind of goals...), coach encouragement. The main aim of this narrative reviewis to make a structured currentbibliography research to analyze and discuss about the actual scientific literature regardingthe 6 a-sided SSG, in order to determine whether 6-a-sided small sided games (SSG) specificity is high or not.Demonstrating, not only the validity and reproducibility of the physiological demands of a 11M SOCCERgameon certain size of the field, but also the differences between groups of age and level