The content of young football players’ preparation – 6 – 7 year olds
august4mai 31, 2020

The content of young football players’ preparation – 6 – 7 year olds

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The content of the preparations for children and juniors

Stage: beginners
Age: 6-7 year olds
Teaching stage: initiation – learning
Competitions: local, regional, international
Pitch size: 40/20m
Number of players: 5+1; 4+1
Goal size: 2m/3m
Game time: 20 min

A. GENERAL MOTOR SKILLS:

  • Knowledge of exercising-repeating positions
  • Knowledge of movements of the body segments (arms, trunk, legs, head)
  • Variants for walking, running, jumping
  • Throws-catches, balance, climbing-descending, crawling, escalade, tractions, pushes, weight transportation
  • Elements belonging to acrobatic gymnastics
  • Dynamic games, relay, applied tests that include various motor solicitudes

B. PRIORITIZED DEVELOPMENT OF MOTOR SKILLS

General skills:

  • Various motor actions (performed individually, in pairs, in group, with or without opponents)
  • Creating motor solutions that employ a personal way of resolving and rapid orientation

Speed:

  • Exercises and structures for reaction, movement, execution speed – as much as one can within a skill-using regime
  • Indirectly through relays, dynamic games, applied tests, game as such

General endurance:

  • Continuous efforts with the progression of duration and distance
  • Cumulative effect of repetition in preparations and game

Force:

  • Actions over one’s own body through muscular contractions
  • General dynamic force
  • Muscles – local muscular endurance

C. TECHNICAL PREPARATION

  • Analytical teaching-learning
  • Simple technical structures
  • Elementary technical-tactical actions
  • Preparation, dynamic games, relays that include various ball-control manoeuvres
  • Game as such

D. GAME

  • On-the-pitch display
  • Game rules
  • Specific behaviour
  • Elementary game relations through discovery and direct intervention of the coach

The division of standard preparation means was made by splitting the annual football preparation cycle into 3 preparation periods:

  • 1st Preparation period (August-November)
  • 2nd preparation period (December-March)
  • 3rd preparation period (April-July)
To be continued

ION V. IONESCU                                      MARIUS DEMIAN

translated by Prof. Cristian Sandor