The effects of differential learning approach on technical skills in youth soccer players

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Joana Alves da
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10348/9238
• topic: football; futsal; pass technique; differential learning

The aim of this study is to verify if differencial learning can improve technical skill pass more than the traditional training in youth football and futsal players. The sample was composed by 27 young Portuguese football players from Under 11 age group (U11: n=27, age: 10.0 ± 0.39) and 17 young Portuguese futsal players (U11: n=17, age: 9.27 ± 1.03). Each team was divided into 2 groups (control group and experimental group), in total 4 groups were made, two control and two experimental groups. The intervention time was around 2 months, and only experimental groups had an interventional program based on differential learning. The intervention was founded on analytic exercises and a small-side-games. Both groups performed the Loughborough Football Passing Test and the Creative Behaviour Assessment in Team Sports (CBATS) to assess the pass skills. The results of the Loughborough Football Passing Test showed that all 4 groups improved from the pre to the post test, however, a higher improve was presented in the experimental groups in football (-1,7; ± 1,3, possibly -ive) and socfutsal (-0,4; ±1,2, likely) teams when comparing with the control groups. Regarding to game related creative behaviour the results showed that the experimental group of the socfutsal team improves more in the versatility (0,6; ±0,6, likely + ive) and in the fails (0,5; ±0,5, likely – ive), on the other hand the fluency was stressed in the football team (0,5; ±0,9, possibly + ive). Comparing the two teams, the training intervention seems to be more effective in the football team. This study demonstrated that a differential learning intervention can provide an improvement in the performance of the pass technique in football and futsal players.