Abstract
Futsal, which can be defined as a new sports branch compared to football, has some shortcomings in comparison with football as well according to the studies carried out. Studies have rather focused on the movement characteristics of futsal players during the game and the physiological effects of games. On the other hand, there are only a limited number of studies conducted on game analysis. Therefore, as the primary goal of the present study, offensive variations that ended up as goals in all matches played in Futsal World Cup were analyzed. As the secondary goal, these parameters were studied in terms of the teams’ winning-drawing-losing states during games. In the present study, a total of 52 matches of the teams playing in 2016 FIFA Futsal World Championship were analyzed. The analyses of the games were performed using the hand notation method. Differences between offensive variations (Diagonal, parallel, central and transition game forms, set games etc.) and the goals scored (shots taken, shots at goal, the area where the goals were scored, the way the goals were scored, the area where the foot hit the ball, block shoots etc.) were determined with One-way Anova and Kruskal-Wallis tests on SPSS version 20 in terms of 3 variables (win-loss-draw). The findings show that the winning teams had significantly more shots than the losing teams (10.80, 95%CI (from 3, 73 to 17, 87) and that the number of shots at goal was also higher (5.82, 95%CI (from 2, 43 to 9, 91) in terms of the teams’ winning-losing-drawing states. However, no statistically significant difference was found between the areas where the shots were taken and the points they ended up at the goal. As for position specific games, on the other hand, statistically significant differences were found in terms of winning, losing and drawing states during the game (central= χ2(2) = 10.500, p = .005, diagonal= χ2(2) = 17.142, p = .000, parallel= χ2(2) = 10.931, p = .004, transition= χ2(2) = 28,587 p = .000). No statistically significant difference was found between set games ending up with goals and the teams’ game score variables. The results obtained concerning offensive variations in a superior futsal championship reveal that positional games of dynamic style could be much more effective compared to set games of static starting positions in winning the game. Moreover, producing shooting positions and their accuracy levels seem to be an important factor affecting success. According to these results, it can be recommended that the trainings to be held should be designed to improve positional games that these should be planned as practices that result in shots.
Highlights
Due to the dynamism within the game of football, which can be played in different ways and under different conditions all over the world, the interest in football is gradually increasing
Through correct analyses to be carried out, positive qualities of athletes could be further improved and new working systems could be developed for their negative qualities by determining the activity areas of successful teams and desired improvements can be achieved through imitating successful teams (Bangsbo & Peitersen, 2000). For all these reasons; the main purpose of the present study was to examine goal-bound offensive variations and the goals scored in all matches played in Futsal World Cup and the secondary purpose was to analyze these parameters in terms of the teams’ winning-losing-drawing states within the game
Studies on the analysis of offensive variations and the positions ending in goal in Futsal have been previously carried out in different ways
Summary
Due to the dynamism within the game of football, which can be played in different ways and under different conditions all over the world, the interest in football is gradually increasing. FIFA, the association that forms the structure of this huge organization and helps its reshaping, has been looking for different organizations in order to increase the interest in football and the number of participants and audience. Different game rules such as 6m, 10 m penalty kicks and unlimited substitutions help futsal be played in a far more dynamic structure. The fact that the viewers can watch all the activities in the game from a much closer point to the pitch compared to football has made the audience potential of futsal grow gradually in national and international (countries and clubs) official organizations since the 1930s
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