Kinesiology, Vol. 2. No. 1., 1972.
Preliminary communication
Some Situational Psychomotoric Abilities Potentially and Actually Important for the Success of Children in Football (Soccer)
Miloje Gabrijelić
; Odjel za primjenjenu kineziologiju
Abstract
A battery of situational psychomotoric tests (9 tests) was applied in a selected sample of boys (34) - the pupils of an experimental football (soccer) school - at the beginning (the first test) - 11 and 12-year old boys) and the end of the training (the second test 14 and 15 year old boys). The improvement was evident in the test results, partially to maturation.
The battery has proved to have an important predictive ability concerning the criterion (complex ability in football (soccer) game, its prognostic validity being 0.65 in the first test and diagnostic validity 0.74 in the second one. This shows that by means of it the success in football (soccer) playing could to a great extent be predicted.
The characteristic relations in the battery structure were established; they allow the definition of the characteristic groups of psychomotoric abilities (running speed, coordination speed in controlling the ball, explosive foot strength).
Changes in the structure of children's psychomotoric abilities important for the success in football (soccer) were established as well. At the age of 11 and 12 explosive strength as well as the coordination abilities in ball management were dominant. At the age of 14 and 15 the most important feature was coordination ability in ball management, speed and precision, while strength lost its former importance.
In this way through training the functional structure of battery was transformed in such a way that the predictive ability of the battery increased by 12% and its structure became very near to the model characteristics of top footballers. These changes may be ascribed to adequate programming and the construction of the process of sport training in which situational training method important for football (soccer) and acceptable to this age group dominated.
The results of the study have a scientific importance for kinesiology as a whole, for sport kinesiology, kinesiometry, and for genetic kinesiology.
These results have also a practical importance, as they allow the more rational and more effective selection of children for football (soccer), the programming of the training, and the directing and regulating of the fundamental complexes of situational variables.
In connection with these research, as well as on the basis of all pedagogic and methodological information obtained in the course of the functioning of the experimental school, a manual for the couches was published ("Football School", 200 pp., "Sportska štampa", 1965).
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Publication date:
30.12.1972.
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