The importance of a technical-coordinative work with psychokinetic elements in the youth sectors of soccer academies

Abstract

Soccer is born as a spontaneous form of play and as such should remain. It is a sport characterized by unpredictability: in every moment, new situations arise with which the player must relate and to which he must respond adequately. Indecision or carelessness can change the outcome of a game. The complex (and uncomplicated) structure of the game should be trained right through complexity, so that the player can recognize what happens during the game, ie those situations that are found in the game itself. Starting from the youth sector it is necessary to train memory, perception, concentration skills and situation analysis. We need to recreate actions that are more likely to the game, but stimulate reasoning as a training factor. Once the player has gained experience, he will automatically be able to recreate it in the game. The aim of this study is precisely to demonstrate the need to provide young people with a strong technical-coordination base, stimulating the psychokinetic component. In practice, it is necessary to equip the child with a wide technical repertoire that can be used during a game, thus reducing that sense of loss and abandonment to improvisation. In this paper, various exercises will be proposed concerning both the coordinative technical component and the psychokinetic component; the main findings will be analyzed, and compared with the numerous epistemological references present in the literature.