The relationship between fundamental motor skills and game specific skills in elite young soccer players

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7752/jpes.2019.s1037" target="_blank" >10.7752/jpes.2019.s1037</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The relationship between fundamental motor skills and game specific skills in elite young soccer players

Original language description

Game specific motor skills develop the foundation of the game of football. The importance of fundamental motor skills as a substantial basis of sport-specific motor skills is generally accepted. However, up until now, research on the relationship between fundamental and specific motor skills in soccer players has been missing. The aim of this study, therefore, was to investigate the relationship between fundamental motor skills and game specific motor skills in elite young football players (N = 24; mean age 11.6 +- 0.4 years). Football specific dribbling and shooting test as a game-specific motor skills and The Test of Gross Motor Skills - 2nd edition (TGMD-2) as a set of fundamental motor skills were used. We found a strong relationship between TGMD-2 and game-specific motor skills (r = 0.62 - 0.70). The horizontal jump and catch were found to be the best predictors of game-specific motor skills (F(2, 21) = 21.13, p &lt; 0.001, R2 = 0.64). The players reported the poorest performance in several subtests: striking a stationary ball, overhand throw, underhand roll, and horizontal jump. These results demonstrate the need for a certain level of both fine and gross fundamental motor skills in order to acquire game-specific motor skills. Youth coaches should emphasize adequate development of FMS, particularly during early and middle childhood. Coaches should especially develop and improve a wide range of fundamental motor skills as building blocks of more complex and difficult, football-specific, motor skills during the long-term training process.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Physical Education and Sport

ISSN

2247-8051

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

37

Country of publishing house

RO - ROMANIA

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

249-254

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85062403662