Style of decision making of coaches and futsal football teams in basic categories/Estilo de tomada de decisao dos treinadores de equipes de futsal e futebol nas categorias de base

This descriptive and comparative study was conducted in order to identify and compare the style of decision making futsal and football coaches in the categories sub-11, sub-13 and sub-15. The study included six (6) coaches. 3 (three) Futsal coaches and each coach is in a different category, three (3) Football equally distributed into two clubs in the city of Chapeco (SC). The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire about decision making style of coach (QTDT), developed and validated by Guide (2009). All data were collected by the researcher, in the months of October and November 2012.The results indicate that, globally, futsal coaches are more competent in decision making as compared to football coaches. Moreover, futsal coaches outnumber football coaches in all dimensions than the questionnaire assesses. With regard to the dimensions of decision making, the futsal coaches are more competent in relation to metacognition about the context and prior knowledge about the context. Whereas football coaches were more skilled in dimensions conceptual models of context and strategies to manage uncertainty of context. It's concluded that, when comparing the styles of decision making of futsal and football coaches in the categories sub-11, sub-13 and sub-15 in Chapeco (SC), the coaches of the modality of futsal were more efficient in decision making. Key words: Sports Training, Coach, Decision Making. Este estudo descritivo-comparativo foi realizado com o objetivo de identificar e comparar o estilo de tomada de decisao de treinadores de futsal e futebol nas categorias sub-11, sub-13 e sub-15. Participaram do estudo 6 (seis) treinadores, sendo 3 (tres) de Futsal um em cada categoria e 3 (tres) de Futebol, igualmente distribuidos, de dois clubes da cidade de Chapeco (SC). O instrumento para a coleta dos dados foi o questionario de estilo de tomada de decisao do treinador (QTDT), desenvolvido e validado por Guia (2009). Os dados foram coletados pelo proprio pesquisador, nos meses de outubro e novembro de 2012. Os resultados obtidos apontam que, de forma global, os treinadores de futsal sao mais competentes na tomada de decisao se comparados aos de futebol. Alem disso, os treinadores de futsal superam os da modalidade de futebol em todas as dimensoes que o questionario avalia. Com relacao as dimensoes da tomada de decisao, os treinadores de futsal sao mais competentes no que se trata da metacognicao sobre o contexto e conhecimento previo sobre o contexto. Enqu