Back to the roots in football science. Why it might be smart to invest in the youngest players

Faude, Oliver

doi:10.1080/24733938.2018.1493047

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“…Organized football is, therefore, a promising opportunity to get a large number of children physically active. Research in non-performance-oriented children’s football and, thus, evidence-based measures on how to structure and conduct football training are rare [ 5 ].…”

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Structure, Intensity and Player Duels in Under-13 Football Training in Switzerland

Uebersax

Roth

Bächle

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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We evaluated the structure (i.e., the different training parts), contents (i.e., the various activities used), intensity and occurrence of contact situations and headers during training sessions in under-13 football in Switzerland. A total of 242 players from 20 different teams on average aged 11.4 (SD 0.7) years participated. The participants were filmed during a typical training session while they were equipped with a heart rate sensor. The sessions were systematically recorded to allow for detailed analyses. Furthermore, a preliminary and explorative analysis of the influence of the level of play on these results was conducted. The overall findings indicated that training included 33.4% playing forms, 29.5% training forms, 28.4% inactivity time and 8.7% athletics. The highest heart rates were achieved in the playing forms (166 min−1, 83% HRmax) compared to the other two activities (training forms 154 min−1, 77% HRmax; athletics 150 min−1, 75% HRmax). Each player had 12.8 duels and 0.6 headers per training. Overall, most duels were conducted from the anterior direction. Playing forms induce higher cardio-circulatory load as well as a better learning environment. Potentially dangerous situations like contact with other players or headers occurred in a single player on average every six min during a training session.

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Structure, Intensity and Player Duels in Under-13 Football Training in Switzerland

Uebersax

Roth

Bächle

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…Organised football is therefore a promising opportunity to get a large number of children physically active. Research in non-performance-oriented children's football and thus evidencebased measures on how to structure and conduct football training are rare (5).…”

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Structure, intensity and player duels in under-13 football training in Switzerland

Uebersax¹,

roth²,

Bächle³

et al. 2020

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We evaluated the structure (i.e., the different training parts), contents (i.e., the various activities used), intensity and occurrence of contact situations and headers during training sessions in under-13 football in Switzerland. 242 players from 20 different teams on average aged 11.4 (SD 0.7) years participated. The participants were filmed during a typical training session while they were equipped with a heart rate sensor. The sessions were systematically recorded to allow for detailed analyses. Furthermore, a preliminary and explorative analysis of the influence of the level of play on these results was conducted. The overall findings indicated that training included 33.4% playing forms, 29.5% training forms, 28.4% inactivity time and 8.7% athletics. The highest heart rates were achieved in the playing forms (166 min-1, 83% HRmax) compared to the other two activities (training forms 154 min-1, 77% HRmax; athletics 150 min-1, 75% HRmax). Each player had 12.8 duels and 0.6 headers per training. Overall most duels were conducted from anterior direction. Playing forms induce higher cardio-circulatory load as well as a better learning environment. Potentially dangerous situations like contact with other players or headers occurred in a single player on average every 6 minutes during a training session.

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“…It is precisely recommended that coaches should motivate and encourage their players to use both feet. Furthermore, more than 50% of the registered soccer players worldwide were youth athletes [ 31 ], thus, it is important to improve their foot motor performance and to teach the players to use both feet at younger ages.…”

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Participation of Soccer Training Improves Lower Limb Coordination and Decreases Motor Lateralization

Akpinar

2022

BioMed Research International

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Athletes, who display less lateralization, are considered to be more successful in their sports. Therefore, it is important to test the lateralization profiles of the athletes to determine future prospects. Soccer is one of the sports where lateralization plays an important role because performing the passes and kicks with either foot may increase the success rate. Improved lower limb coordination is also very essential to perform the soccer skills more efficiently. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the motor lateralization profiles of youth soccer players and to compare the same lateralization to non-athletes. A total of 28 healthy youth (14 soccer players) aged between 14 and 16 years voluntarily participated in this study. All participants were right-footed and were asked to hit the targets with their either foot maintaining accuracy in a custom-made virtual reality interface. Final position error (FPE) and foot path deviation from linearity (FPDL) were calculated to test motor lateralization for each foot and group. Two-way Mixed Model ANOVA was conducted for each dependent variable. Results indicated significant differences for FPDL between groups, while there were no significant differences between groups and within feet for FPE. Nonathletes had significantly higher FPDL with their nondominant foot compared to their dominant foot, which was not observed among soccer players. Overall, nonathletes’ movements were more curvature path compared to soccer players, thus, can be considered as less coordinated. As soccer players did not show a difference between their feet on FPDL and performed better than nonathletes, soccer participation can improve lower limb coordination as well as alter motor performance and lateralization.

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Back to the roots in football science. Why it might be smart to invest in the youngest players

Cited by 6 publications

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Structure, Intensity and Player Duels in Under-13 Football Training in Switzerland

Structure, Intensity and Player Duels in Under-13 Football Training in Switzerland

Structure, intensity and player duels in under-13 football training in Switzerland

Participation of Soccer Training Improves Lower Limb Coordination and Decreases Motor Lateralization

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