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Teaching Tactical Creativity in Sport: Research and Practice book cover

2nd Edition

Teaching Tactical Creativity in Sport Research and Practice

By Daniel Memmert Copyright 2027
184 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This new edition of Teaching Tactical Creativity in Sport bridges the gap between theory and practice in the development of tactical creativity in team and racket sports. Creativity is an essential component of sport performance. The player who can make fast or correct decisions that are both unexpected—and therefore less easily predicted by their opponent—and appropriate is the player who is... Read more

1. Creativity—An Introduction

2. Creativity in Science

3. Creativity in Physical Education and Team and Racket Sports

4. Learning and Teaching Within the Scope of the Tactical Creativity Approach in Team and Racket Sports

5. Empirical Evidence of the Tactical Creativity Approach in Team and Racket Sports

6. How to Measure Tactical Creativity in Team and Racket Sports?

7. Practical Implications of Tactical Creativity Approach

8. Summary

Biography

Daniel Memmert is a professor and the executive head of the Institute of Exercise Training and Sport Informatics at the German Sport University Cologne, Germany. In 2003, he earned a PhD (Award: DVS Young Scientist Award, Bronze) and habilitated in 2008 at the Elite University of Heidelberg (Award: DOSB Science Award, Bronze). In 2014, he was a visiting professor at the University of Vienna. His scientific work focuses on movement science (cognition and motor function), sports psychology (attention and motivation), and computer science in sports (big data, pattern recognition, and simulation). According to a publicly accessible database by Elsevier of the world’s top 100,000 scientists, he ranks first in Germany in the field of Sport Science and eighth in the world in the field of Sports Science/Experimental Psychology. He has an H-index of 72 (i10-index 263) and has raised more than ten million euros in third-party funding, including nine DFG projects in the field of computer science and five DFG projects in the field of psychology. In addition, he has published more than 350 articles in international journals and 55 books. Since 2023, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology, and since 2025, he has been Executive Editor for the Journal of Sport Science. He holds coaching licenses in the sports of soccer, tennis, snowboarding, as well as alpine skiing. His institute cooperates/cooperated with various soccer teams worldwide, the German national soccer team, and DAX companies and organized the first international master’s degree course in Match Analysis.

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