Commentary: Development of defensive actions in Small-Sided and conditioned games with offensive purposes in futsal

To prepare athletes for the physiological demands of soccer and futsala competitions, coaches need to identify effective training modalities. Small-sided games (SSGs) are frequently used by coaches to develop the technical abilities of players as well as their conditioning capacity through the recruitment of sport-specific movement patterns. SSGs comprise a very wide variety of exercises that can be manipulated by the staff according to the goal of a single session or the week of training. SSGs are employed in the training programs of both professional soccer players and young soccer players.