Complexity and Control in Team Sports

Felix Lebedis senior lecturer and headof the Physical Education Department at Kaye Academic College of Education, Israel. He is involved in the interdisciplinary studies of competitive game playing and has published more than 60 papers in English, Hebrew and Russian, a number of chapters in edited collections as well as three books. Dr Lebed was previously senior lecturer at the Ukrainian State University of Physical Education and Sport and senior researcher supervising the Soviet national handball teams' Olympic preparation. Michael Bar-Eli is professor and the head of Sport Management at Zinman College, Wingate Institute, Israel. He is also Mercator Professor at the University of Tuebingen, Germany and currently holds the Nat Holman Chair in Sports Research at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Having published extensively in English and Hebrew on Sport Psychology, Dr Bar-Eli has gone on to serve as associate and section-editor for a number of leading sport psychology journals alongside consultant psychology roles for elite-level athletes and the Israeli defence forces.