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Bruno Sérgio Varanda Gonçalves

Associate Professor (Proto-Department of Sport and Health)

Employment contract in public functions indefinitely

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Doctoral Degree: Doutoramento em Ciências do Desporto/Ciências do Desporto (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro - 2017)
Master Degree: Mestrado em Ensino da Educação Física nos ensinos Básicos e Secundário/Ciências do Desporto (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro - 2011)
Bachelor's Degree: Licenciatura em Educação física e Desporto Escolar/Ciências do Desporto (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro - 2008)
Department of Sports and Health Assembly (Advisor)
Comissão de Curso da Licenciatura em Ciências do Desporto (Deputy)
Comissão de Curso do Curso de Formação em Análise não-linear do Movimento Humano (Director)
Comissão de Curso do Mestrado em Tecnologia no Desporto e na Saúde (Deputy)
CHRC - Comprehensive Health Research Centre (Integrated Member with doctorate)
Conselho Pedagógico da Escola de Saúde e Desenvolvimento Humano (Advisor)
Conselho Pedagógico da Escola de Saúde e Desenvolvimento Humano (Secretary)
Collective behaviour; performance enhancement; tracking systems; team sports.

  • Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC), Universidade de Évora, Portugal

  • Portugal Football School, Portuguese Football Federation, Portugal

RECORVHABIT / INTERREG
acrónimo: RECORVHABIT
em curso até 31/12/2026
/ Instituto Português do Desporto e Juventude I.P.
acrónimo: UniverCIDADE VII
finished in 31/12/2022
Coutinho, D., Gonçalves, B., Kelly, A. L., Santos, S., Figueiredo, P., Soares, C., & Travassos, B. (2024). Exploring the impact of ball possession directionality on youth footballers' positioning, technical skills and physical abilities in small-sided games. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17479541241257016
Liu, Q., Huang, Z., Coutinho, D., Wei, X., An, T., & Gonçalves, B. (2024). Assessing Variations in Positional Performance across Age Groups and during Matches in Youth Association Football Competitions. Sensors, 24(14), 4536. Retrieved from https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/14/4536
Abade, E., Costa, A. R., Parraca, J. A., Tomas-Carus, P., Clemente-Suarez, V. J., & Gonçalves, B. (2024). Enhancing team sports performance: a case study of the optimal post-warm-up time window. Sport Sciences for Health. doi:10.1007/s11332-024-01258-w
Silva, N., Travassos, B., Gonçalves, B., Brito, J., Nakamura, F., & Abade, E. (2024). Effects of warm-up duration on acute physical performance in highly trained male futsal players. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 19(4), 1632-1640. https://doi.org/10.1177/17479541231208009
Santos, S., Coutinho, D., Gonçalves, B., Sampaio, J. (2023). How many creatives are enough? Exploring how manipulating the number of creative players in the opposing team impacts footballers' performance during small-sided games. Human Movement Science, 87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2022.103043.
Bravo, J., Sousa, R.D., Almeida, G., Cruz, D., Zangão, O., Gonçalves, B., Raimundo, R., Câmara, C., Santos, A., Folgado, H., & Raimundo, A. (2022). 2nd Annual Summit of the Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC). Port J Public Health 2022;40(suppl 1):1-24.
Santos, S., Gonçalves, B., Coutinho, D., Vilas Boas, G., & Sampaio, J. (2022). Visual occlusion effects on youth football players' performance during small-sided games. PLOS ONE, 17(7), e0268715. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268715
2nd Annual Summit of the Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC). (2022). Portuguese Journal of Public Health, 40(suppl 1)(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1159/000527366
Marcelino, R., Sampaio, J., Amichay, G., Gonçalves, B., Couzin, I.D., Nagy, M. (2022). Kollektives Verhalten im Fußball. In: Memmert, D. (eds) Spielanalyse im Sportspiel. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-63444-8_26
Mateus, N., Exel, J., Santos, S., Gonçalves, B., & Sampaio, J. (2022). Effectiveness of wearable technology to optimize youth soccer players' off-training behaviour and training responses: a cluster-randomized trial. Science and Medicine in Football, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2022.2114604
Ribeiro, J. N., Gonçalves, B., Illa, J., Couceiro, M., Sampaio, J., & Travassos, B. (2022). Exploring the effects of interchange rotations on high-intensity activities  of elite futsal players. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17479541221119659
Conceição, A.; Fernandes, O.; Baia, M.; Parraca, J.A.; Gonçalves, B.; Batalha, N. (2022) Changes in Muscular Activity in Different Stable and Unstable Conditions on Aquatic Platforms. Biology 2022, 11, 1643. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11111643
Coutinho, D., Gonçalves, B., Folgado, H., Travassos, B., Santos, S., & Sampaio, J. (2022). Amplifying the effects of adding extra players during association football game-based scenarios. PLoS ONE, 17(6), e0270052. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270052
Travassos, B., Monteiro, R., Coutinho, D., Yousefian, F., & Gonçalves, B. (2022). How spatial constraints afford successful and unsuccessful penetrative passes in elite association football. Science and Medicine in Football, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2022.2060519
Coutinho, D., Gonçalves, B., Folgado, H., Travassos, B., Santos, S., & Sampaio, J. (2022). Amplifying perceptual demands: How changes in the colour vests affect youth players performance during medium-sided games. PloS One, 17(1), e0262245. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0262245
Coutinho, D., Gonçalves, B., Santos, S., Travassos, B., Schöllhorn, W., & Sampaio, J. (2022). The effects of individual and collective variability on youth players' movement behaviours during football small-sided games. Research in Sports Medicine, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/15438627.2022.2042293
Leite, N., Calvo, A. L., Calleja-Gonzalez, J., Gonçalves, B., Cumming, S., eds. (2022). Talent Identification and Development in Sports Performance. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88974-051-2
Gonçalves, B., Bravo, J., & Folgado, H. (Eds.). (2022). Training Methods to Improve Sports Performance and Health. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI.

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