JUSTIFICATION OF SPECIAL MEANS FOR THE FORMATION OF PHYSICAL FITNESS OF FOOTBALL PLAYERS AT THE STAGE OF INITIAL TRAINING

Abstract

Football contributes to increasing the level of physical fitness. It is appropriate to improve physical qualities in accordance with sensitive periods. Special tools play an important role during training sessions. An individual approach is important in the process of physical training. However, this approach should be constantly monitored by specialists involved in the training of athletes at the initial stages of training. The requirements for the physical training of football players at the initial stage of training are constantly increasing. This fact makes it necessary to constantly improve the process of training football players and determines the relevance of our pedagogical experiment. The purpose of the study is to select special means to promote the formation of physical fitness of football players at the initial stage of training during the annual cycle. The pedagogical experiment was carried out on the basis of the Football Center “Barsa” (experimental group) and the Communal Childrens Youth Sports School “Sumу” (control group) (2023/2024 year). In the experimental group, the section “Physical training” was replaced by special complexes of special physical exercises for the formation of physical fitness of football players aged 9–10 during the annual training cycle, and a plan-schedule of educational and training classes was developed in accordance with the “Young Footballer” program. The initial and final data on the level of physical fitness of football players at the initial stage of training were obtained (running 30 m, s; uniform running without taking into account the time, points; shuttle run 3 x 10 m, s; bending the body forward, cm, raising the body to the sitting position, times). The numerical values of the indicators of the tests regarding the assessment of the physical fitness of athletes of the team sport indicate statistically significant changes between the indicators of the standards both in the experimental group (р ˂ 0.05–0.01) and in the control group (р ˂ 0.05). The comparative analysis shows the effectiveness of special means.