At the present level of football development, the requirements for athletic skills are increasing. Given a fierce competition in the international and national sports arena as never before, it is important to mobilize functional reserves and maximize individual inclinations of players to demonstrate the highest capability for sport in the period optimal for it. It is precisely a long-term training programme focused on the demonstration of natural inclinations that is a strategic area in the training of qualified athletes under the current conditions. Adhering to qualitative characteristics of the training process should become the basis for evaluating the rational structure of a long-term training process. The paper aims to theoretically and methodically justify the periods of training sessions and competitions of youth football players. Research methods are the following: general theoretical methods (analysis, synthesis, abstraction, comparison, generalization and descriptive mathematical statistics), systemic theoretical methods (structural analysis, functional analysis, structural-and-functional analysis, historical method, system modelling), a study of the printed and electronic sources of information, description, interviewing, expert survey. An analysis of scientific and methodological literature, legal documents and training programmes adopted in the countries with a high level of football development has made it possible to construct models of annual programs based on the years of study with further regulation of cycles of training sessions and competitions. Rational construction of the system of footballers’ long-term training is based on the introduction of changes in the organization and holding of children’s and youth competitions, pedagogical principles of managing sports activities and technologies for training youth football players, as well as methods of evaluating children’s coaches’ professional performance.

The paper presents the results of an experimental study on the development of professional endurance and psycho-emotional stability in the future officers of operational level during training in a higher military educational institution. The educational research was conducted in three stages, in the National Defence University of Ukraine, named after Ivan Cherniakhovskyi. The current level of professional endurance in this category of officers gave grounds to assume that with traditional approaches to the organisation of the educational process, it is quite difficult to achieve a high level of development of this property. Therefore, there is a need to find and substantiate the pedagogical conditions for developing professional endurance in officers and improving their mental health. To confirm the effectiveness of the implementation of the conditions defined by the authors at the beginning and end of the experiment, a comparison of the obtained data of the experimental group (EG) and control group (CG) was carried out according to the authors’ criteria and indicators. The results of the study on the implementation and substantiation of pedagogical conditions for the development of professional endurance in officers confirmed that the proposed measures contributed to the effective development of this quality. Statistical methods ensure that the officers from the EG had statistically significant changes in professional endurance as a result of the experiment. Comparison of the development of professional endurance in the EG at the beginning and end of the experiment using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test confirmed the effectiveness of implementing appropriate pedagogical conditions for the development of professional endurance and psycho-emotional stability.

Розглянуто потенціал діджиталізації у фізичному вихованні та представлено форми цифрових технологій, які активно використовують зацікавлені викладачі фізичного виховання різних країн світу в своїй освітній діяльності. Встановлено, що пандемія COVID-19 прискорила імплементацію діджитал технологій у фізичне виховання. Окреслено переваги та недоліки онлайн фізичного виховання. Ознайомлено із двома можливими бар’єрами (правовим і гуманітарним) на шляху становлення діджиталізованого фізичного виховання.

This study presents a qualitative analytical approach through a critical analysis of data to critically describe, interpret, and explain the crisis in physical education (PE) in Ukraine and the world. The subject of consideration is the Ukrainian PE curriculum, which must be followed by all teachers when making lesson plans. Among the many different obstacles for Ukrainian PE, the study focused on one of the most important and hidden barriers, which is a kind of multiplier of the crisis – the culture of mimicry. Institutional mimicry is a serious problem that has been poorly analyzed, but it is actually very significant and often causes crises or slows down the progress of PE. Ignoring or failing to understand the factor of mimicry reduces the possibility of escaping a crisis or even makes escape impossible. The results show that the mimicry of PE is at least two-tiered: on the one hand, it is bureaucratic (external), and on the other, it is “internal” (based on tradition). Mimicry in the Ukrainian reality of PE is not advertised, but there is almost no alternative path for development. The constant mimicry of PE in Ukraine has created a paradoxical situation in which scientific expediency yields to politics and eventually leads to a new crisis. The study shows that there is a missing culture of influence on political decisions in Ukraine. Ukrainian PE teachers have a culture of mimicry, not a culture of leadership. The Ukrainian PE curriculum for secondary schools contains contradictions in its theoretical and practical parts.

У статті розглянуто проблематику підготовки майбутніх керівників форм фізичної підготовки, які відіграють провідну роль у процесі фізичного удосконалення військовослужбовців. Проаналізовано сучасні підходи в дослідженнях науковців в галузі фізичної культури і спорту щодо застосування інформаційно-комп’ютерних технологій у підготовці майбутніх фахівців в даному напрямку. Авторами визначено, що під час підготовки майбутніх керівників форм фізичної підготовки сучасні інформаційно-комп’ютерні технології забезпечують їх теоретичну та методичну підготовленість, виконують одну із основних функцій процесів інформатизації фізичної підготовки у Збройних Силах України.