| Sumario: | A game-based approach in physical education and sport settings focuses on the players learning of tactical decision making. TGfU pedagogical principles provide teachers and coaches method to structure their players decision making practices by reducing the demands of a complex game. The purposes of this study were (1) to examine youth elite soccer players perceptions of practicing in a small sided game, and (2) to describe the process of implementation of a pedagogical intervention tool (Game Balance Analysis, GBA) and how it provides guidelines for the design of modified game practices. Two Dutch coaches and youth elite soccer players (N=17) of one team participated in the study. The draw, write, and tell method was used to elicit players perceptions of learning of tactical decision making. During one soccer season, GBA was used to design learning objectives, playing scenarios, and constraints in small sided games. The results showed that the players were fully aware of what tactically can be learned in small sided games, but they also had contradictory perspectives to what they think that is important to learn.
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