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- Title
HEART RATE RESPONSE AND GAME-RELATED ACTIVITY OF YOUNGER SCHOOL-AGE BOYS IN DIFFERENT FORMATS OF SOCCER GAME.
- Authors
Rudolf, Psotta; Václav, Bunc
- Abstract
Small-sided games are used in soccer training to improve technical and tactical skills, and to stimulate physical fitness of players. Loading of the cardiovascular system of adult and adolescent soccer players during the small-sided games were found similar to the cardiovascular system response in a running exercise. There is generally acknowledged that small-sided soccer games represent an appropriate learning environment for acquiring game skills in youth OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to investigate the heart rate response and game-related activity during three different formats of soccer game in younger school-aged children - soccer players. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES: Twenty 8-year-old boys (8.1±0.4 year, n=20) of the same team from one Czech elite soccer club volunteered to participate in the study that was ethically approved by Ethical Committee of Faculty of Physical Education and Sports of Charles University in Prague. All boys had undertaken 1.2±0.3 years of systematic soccer training. The boys participated in six experimental matches, two matches in each from three formats of soccer: five, eight- and eleven-a-sided games including a goalkeeper in field dimension 40x20 m (dimensions of the goal 5x2m), 60x48 m (the goal 5x2 m) and 96x60 m (standard dimensions of the goals), respectively. The time duration of each match was 30 minutes. All matches were performed during three weeks. RESULTS: The different formats of the soccer game showed a similar frequency of the various types of the attack phases diversed from a number of executed passes in one attack phase. The percentage of the attack phases without a pass 23.4 % in the 5 vs 5 game was two-fold in comparison to 8 vs 8 game. This finding suggests more difficult game-situation conditions for cooperation among the boys in the 5 vs 5 game. The percentage of the attack phases with one pass was higher especially in the 11 vs 11 game in comparison to the 5 vs. 5 game (63.1 % vs 43.2 %). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: The study suggested that the soccer game formats from five-a-side game to eleven-a-side game provide very young boys the similar conditions for learning game-related cooperation based on passes. To improve aerobic fitness, the eight-a-side game format seems to be more suitable for very young children rather than the five-a-side and eleven-a-side game.
- Subjects
TRAINING of soccer players; PHYSICAL training &; conditioning; ATHLETE training; SOCCER for children; HEART beat; HEART rate monitoring; EXERCISE physiology; PHYSICAL fitness; PHYSICAL activity
- Publication
Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education & Sport/Science, Movement & Health, 2009, Vol 9, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
2285-777X
- Publication type
Article