Abstract

The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of fifteen-week basic soccer training and education by coaching youth soccer players who are under eight (U8) and under ten (U10) years old. This study has included 24 children (U8 and U10) who have participated in the physical fitness sessions of football at school. Twelve participants in the experimental group (EG) undertook intervention training in games. Twelve young players served as a control group (CG) undertook traditional training methods used in Dali Football Club. Experimental groups indicated greater improvements than control groups (P<0.05) at four tests of basic technical education of football. The results indicated that soccer education and training four times a week can improve the basic skills of football of U8 and U10 children. Study concluded that the training in games methods considered in this study might be suitable to design an effective coaching methods and training sessions aimed at the development of the fundamental skills in youth soccer players.
 
 Keywords: Soccer training; coaching, Games; effective coaching methods, Sports Education, Physical Education

Highlights

  • Football has the potential benefits to improve the physical and mental emotional health of the youth

  • In the experimental group four basic training of barrier stumbling dribble, target pass, pass and trap run and pass the ball to get rid of defense and shot has observed and tested among the players

  • This study present a multifaceted, soccer specific training program of basic techniques that combines interesting games using in the process of soccer training and education

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Introduction

Football has the potential benefits to improve the physical and mental emotional health of the youth. An individual who is engage in sports may have positive changes in the psycho-emotional lifestyle (Larsen et al, 2015; Imas et al, 2018). There are many types of sports and physical fitness techniques among football is the most playing sports and well fitted sports (Hakman et al, 2018). Millions of football lovers have shown interest in football education and basic training and competitions (Ma, 2015; Li, 2017; Sun et al, 2017). Football requires athletes to have a good physical fitness, basic education and skills, a flexible mind and a sense of teamwork. During the initial training stage, the prime objective is to acquire general theoretical and basic techniques to form the basic structure of sporting movements (Mathisen, & Pettersen, 2015; Yarmak et al, 2017; Pompilio, 2019)

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