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The stages of football learning

The first stage of football learning starts only around 5/6 years, that is when the future football player is accompanied to one of the many football schools in the area.

To learn the sporting discipline in the best possible way (that is, in a stimulating and amusing way) it is necessary to satisfy the needs of the child and act according to the age and the degree of psycho-physical maturation of the subject.

Starting from the guidelines on the characteristics of the activities that the coach can perform, it is necessary to create a training program that leads to the achievement of the set goals. The objectives must be pursued by the children on the basis of the initial pre-requisites.

Considering that the boys come to the training with the expectation of playing as much as possible with the ball and that all the children come to the field with the idea of ​​having fun, we must set our work taking into account that we cannot ignore the game.

The following are the characteristics of the subjects (physical, motor, cognitive development, conditional skills, etc.) and the educational and didactic objectives to be pursued.

"FIRST KICKING OR SMALL FRIENDS" - Characteristics of the subjects

During this age group children have difficulties in collaboration and attention, they do not understand abstract explanations well and are strongly self-centered.

The child appears to be rather frail, but with adequate general coordination. The space-time organization is difficult and the movements are not economic and not very productive.

From a conditional point of view, strength has its limits. From the motor point of view, instead, the child finds himself in a moment of transition from the spontaneous and imitative game to that of collaboration.

Around the age of seven or eight, the child begins to overcome the cognitive construction that starts from his own body to conquer the surrounding space, through reference points outside himself.

"FIRST KICKING OR SMALL FRIENDS" - Educational objectives: socializing, overcoming the fear of contact with the ground and the adversary, promoting individual initiative, seeking order, punctuality and custody of the material; know and respect the rules, organize an individual project taking into account space and time.

From the motor point of view we have to work on: basic motor patterns, body schema, lateralization, perceptive abilities, coordination skills (reaction, combination, static, dynamic and monopodalic balance; differentiation, spatio-temporal and oculo-manual orientation) and conditional abilities (especially rapidity and joint mobility).

"FIRST KICKING OR SMALL FRIENDS" - Didactic objectives: do not play with your hands, do not push, do not hold back and kick your opponent, attack and score in the opponent's goal, defend your goal.

Primary motor behaviors: guide the ball, stop the ball, kick the ball, move to participate in the game.

At the end of the first stage of football learning the child must therefore be able to: stop the ball, move forward with the ball, move without the ball and kick the ball.

Edited by: Lorenzo Boscariol