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This exploratory research aims to identify effective teaching strategies for enhancing physical and psychological training in adapted football for children aged 12-15 with special educational needs (SEN). By employing questionnaires and tailored evidence sensitive to the requirements and potential of institutionalized children within this age group, this study seeks to develop and implement teaching strategies conducive to improving football within institutionalized centers. Various research methods including informational-bibliographic analysis, pedagogical observation, conversation, recording, graphical-tabular analysis, and questionnaire surveys were employed over a six-month period (October 2023 - March 2024). The research yielded valuable insights and experiences, revealing the multifaceted nature of effective teaching strategies in football adaptation for children with SEN. Pedagogical observations provided nuanced understanding, while conversations and recordings enriched data collection. Graphical-tabular analyses facilitated systematic evaluation, and questionnaire surveys offered perspectives from stakeholders. The findings reveal significant challenges in social inclusion, with 65% of respondents identifying it as low. Moreover, 40% perceive social inclusion among children aged 12-15 with SEN as low, while 31% rate it as very low. Despite acknowledging favorable factors such as international conventions and national strategies (recognized by over 80% of respondents), specialists also identify constraining factors, including societal attitudes and resource constraints. Nevertheless, there is a consensus (46%) on the high contribution of sport to social inclusion, with 94% perceiving adapted football's influence as high or very high. Specialists emphasize the socialization function (33%) and recognize social benefits such as reintegration (29%). These results underscore the need for improvement in football programs tailored to children with SEN, particularly in enhancing social inclusion and skill development. The study concludes that optimal didactic strategies, attuned to the unique requirements and potential of children with SEN, hold promise for advancing their physical and psychological training through football in institutionalized centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, Pop Warner, the world’s largest youth football organization, has seen its numbers decline. This decline is due to concerns about new research establishing a link between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a debilitating neurodegenerative disease. Hundreds of thousands of parents are now struggling with a difficult ethical issue: should kids play football? Since parents have an obligation to help children develop the capacities required for autonomous choice, the risks posed by football establish a strong presumption against allowing kids to play the game. I consider whether this presumption can be defeated by the arguments for allowing kids to play dangerous sports offered by John Russell in his papers ’The Value of Dangerous Sport’ and ‘Children and Dangerous Sport and Recreation’. While Russell does not argue that kids should be permitted to play football, and agrees that some sports may be too risky for children, he argues that kids should often be allowed to participate in extraordinarily risky sports. I contend that the reasons given in support of this position fail to defeat the presumption against allowing kids to play football. Thus, in the absence of further argument, or radical changes to the game, children should not play football. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There is a large focus on the dominant discourses that frame Muslim women as "other" in European public spaces, but less research on the spatial practices of Muslim women themselves. Through an ethnographic case-study of urban girls' football, this article provides new insights in research on gender and Islam in Europe, as it shows that Muslim girls, through playing football, contest the normative constructions of Dutch public space as masculine, white and secular. The article approaches playing football as spatial performance, and takes into account those public spaces that are not explicitly religious, indeed a domain much less studied in research on Islam and gender in Europe. I argue that it is important in research on Islam, gender and public space to not only focus on explicit religious public practices, but also on practices that are not explicitly religious or Islamic, as they emphasize the potential for resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives. The research aims to present the proprioception in the football game at the age of 10 - 12 years, structured on its main components: balance, neuromuscular coordination and speed. Methods. The pedagogical experiment was conducted on a team of children in the city of Braşov, with a correlation between the level of their technical executions and the balance, coordination and speed indicators of the players. In the initial and final testing, specific research equipment was used and the subjects were being tested on the "bosu ball" for the neuromuscular coordination component, on the balance equilibrium platform for balance indices. Two test specimens specific to the football game were used for the moral quality indexes. Results. The processing of the results from the final test revealed a direct correlation between the „bosu ball" indices, equilibrium indices (equilibrium platform) and the level recorded in the two specific speedshifting tests. The results are presented in the tables being processed statistically and mathematically. Conclusions. The conclusions of the scientific research confirmed the hypotheses of research, highlighting regarding proprioception, direct correlations between the subjects balance, their neuromuscular coordination and the motric quality indexes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the importance of sport in modern society, it is essential that appropriate instruments are available for the assessment of both fair play and unfair play in the sport of football, particularly in the context of youth football. This research study presents the findings from the implementation of a protocol intended to assess fair play during football matches across three seasons. The study included 64 teams, 1192 players, 64 coaches and 292 referees all of whom were involved in the First Cadet category of the Football Federation of Álava (FFA). The measurement instrument employed was the Record of Football Match Evaluations (RFME) developed by Gimeno, Sáenz, Ariño and Aznar (2007). The results revealed that there was a high level of fair play at this level of play which extended to referees, coaches and players across the seasons of interest; there was a greater frequency of fair play attitudes relative to unfair play attitudes; home teams that were victorious were judged to have the most favorable fair play attitudes; and there was a negative correlation between perceived fair play and the number of cards shown by referees. The instrument 1) allowed for the effective utilization of a tool to assess fair play in youth football; 2) was effective for use over the course of the season; and 3) provided knowledge about the social agents who initiate inappropriate and unsportsmanlike acts during football matches for of school age youth, which enables consideration of appropriate counter measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increase in extracurricular activities such as football among schoolchildren has involved new ways of capitalizing on the learning that is promoted, with implications for their self-esteem. The purpose of this study is to understand the implications for the young sportsman his participation in this framework, in which he assumes a specific role in the microsystem of the team, on the construction of their identity. An ethnographic case study design is applied through participant observation of 10 under'7 football teams during a school year and semi-structured interviews with their teachers. The analysis of qualitative data shows that the role that players assume incipiently in their teams is oriented toward performance and it has implications on their self-esteem. The expectations of the adult environment affect the way in which the personal success of each player is assessed according to their role. It is discussed the relevance of rethinking the way in which sports-training practices are offered in school sports so that expectations converge with the particular potential of each child. Adult sensitization is indispensable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

South African research on young children’s constructions of social identities illuminates the significance of play in the construction of gender identities. However, what remains largely understudied are the children’s construction of sexualities through play. The dominant discourse of ‘childhood innocence’ obscures the variegated understandings of the meanings children attach to sexualities. This paper will explore how some South African boys and girls aged 9–10 years construct themselves as active heterosexual subjects through football talk and play during break-time at school. The paper will demonstrate how the school playground is constructed by the ‘charmer boys’ as a ‘football space’ where they use football performance to impress and charm the ‘cream girls’ who are relegated to the margins as spectators of the football games. However, the paper will also argue that gender power relations are complex and that the position of the ‘creamers’ is infused with power as reflected in the role that they play as assessors of the boys’ performance. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The research was conducted with the aim to determine the differences in functional abilities of boys aged 10 to 13 who were divided into groups: football players, karate players and non-athletes from the area of city the of East Sarajevo. Athletes from the sports club "Tango ", karate club "Igman" and pupils from elementary schools "Sveti Sava", "Petar Petrovic Njegos", "Aleksa Santic" and Jovan Ducic" took part in the research. Total sample of participants consisted of 84 boys. The sample was divided into three groups: Football players (24 boys from FC "Tango'j; Karate players (23 boys from KC "Igman'j; Non-athletes (37 boys who only attend PE classes at school). Boys who are athletes (football players and karate players) are involved in sport activities for at least four years. After statistical processing of the data, research has shown that there are statistically significant differences in functional abilities between the participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Junior Australian Football leagues typically adopt rules and positional arrangements that mimic the adult version of Australian Football. This involves fielding 18 players per team on a full-sized oval. While such competition structures are appropriate for adult competition and elite athletes, modifications to field dimensions and number of players may be more appropriate for junior participants. A trial season of competitively engineered Australian Football was piloted by adopting the Australian Football League's (AFL) 9-a-side concept in an Under-8 competition for the first time. The 9-a-side trial occurred on Friday nights alongside the established Under 8's 18-a-side competition conducted on Sunday mornings. Participants in this study experienced both competition formats. A qualitative evaluation of the perceptions and experiences of parents, players and coaches of competitive engineering in junior Australian Football was done. The results indicate that the AFL 9-a-side concept provided an enhanced game experience emerging from (a) a high level of game engagement, (b) the game as an educative context, and (c) an appropriate developmental step before the introduction of players to 18-a-side Australian Football. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this study, we follow the changes generated by applying the problem-solving method based on an observation sheet for two groups of 40 boys aged between 11 and 12 years from "Steaua Bucharest" Children and Junior Centre and from the "Mircea Eliade" Sports High School. Certain effects of the application of this method are represented by: endowing the player with skills, knowledge, and attitudes in accordance with the age- specific objectives, increasing the degree of real participation, developing attention and concentration as well as improving the level of acumen and creative thinking of the athlete within the experimental group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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During the formation of the young football player, each period corresponds to a particular stage of work, so, specific tasks are to be carried out. As a result, the coach will set targets to respond to all the training requirements of this level and will use methods and means of workout specific to the respective age. Between 6-13 years, in the football game there are three stages of training, with an intermediate stage between 8-10 years, exceptionally useful in learning the technique due to the education of psychomotor components. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the process of gender socialization in girls’ and boys’ football teams in Swedish children’s football. The article draws on data gathered from ethnographic fieldwork over two years which involved observations of the daily life of children’s football, and interviews with 11–12-year-old girls and boys, their coaches and parents in two sex-segregated football teams. The study is inspired by Connell’s gender theory (Connell, Gender, 2002), which provides support for the view that gender is a process of social construction in which children actively participate. An analysis of the ways the girls and boys talk about football and gender demonstrates how girls and boys produce a certain gender performance in the social interaction and how they relate to a male standard that exists in children’s football. Overall, this article contributes to a deeper understanding of the relationships between girls and boys and how children contribute to gendered socialization in sport. This article also discusses the relevance of gender equality work in child sport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examined the possibility that several skills from soccer children can be consolidated, by using special training. Were tested 12 children born in 1997. Means of training used in this period led to significant improvements in indices and physical techniques to test children. The data were collected at the beginning and at the end of the study period, and showed significant(p< 0,0005) greater gains for experimental group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Context: Estimates suggest that more than 5.5 million youths play football annually, and 28% of youth football players (age range = 5 to 14 years) are injured each year, resulting in more than 187 000 emergency room visits. Objective: To analyze time-loss (TL) and non--time-loss (NTL) injury patterns across age groups in youth football players. Design: Two-year observational cohort. Setting: Two midwestern communities, including players from the fourth through eighth grades and between the ages of 9 and 14 years. Patients or Other Participants: A total of 779 players participated, including 296 in grades 4 and 5; 203 in grade 6; 188 in grade 7; and 92 in grade 8. (Players in the fourth and fifth grades participated on the same teams, so we considered them as a single group.) Main Outcome Measure(s): Injury frequencies and exposures were collected by certified athletic trainers present at each practice and game and used to calculate injury rates with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for both TL and NTL injuries across age groups. Results: A total of 474 injuries and 26 565 exposures were identified. Injuries were reported by 36.5% of the players, with 14.4% reporting more than 1 injury in a season. The overall injury rate per 1000 athlete-exposures (A-Es) was 17.8 (95% CI = 16.3, 19.5). The injury rate increased with each succeeding grade from 14.3 per 1000 A-Es (95% CI = 12.1, 16.9) in grades 4 and 5 to 21.7 per 1000 A-Es (95% CI = 17.2, 27.3) in grade 8. A total of 58.6% of all injuries were NTL. Non--timeloss injuries accounted for 70.1% of the injuries reported by fourth and fifth graders, 55.1% by sixth graders, 64.0% by seventh graders, and 33.8% by eighth graders. The cumulative NTL injury rate was 10.5 per 1000 A-Es (95% CI = 9.3, 11.8), and the TL injury rate was 7.4 per 1000 A-Es (95% CI = 6.4, 8.5). Conclusions: Youth football players sustained more NTL injuries than TL injuries. We recommend that a first-aid--certified coach or league official be present at all games and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the academic analysis of association football continues to proliferate, the experiences of children in this context appear to be of marginal concern to researchers and policy makers. Drawing on developments in the sociology of childhood and a review of football literature, this article analyses data from the first year of the English Football Association's (FA) Child Protection Research Project, a five-year programme commissioned by the FA in order to assess the impact of their child protection policies and measures in both the professional and amateur game. The article argues for a new agenda for football-related research which challenges the problematic assumptions of many adult stakeholders, and which prioritizes research strategies that empower young football players at all levels of the sport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considers the problems faced by Indian children who wish to play football. Difficulties faced by Indian children of all socio-economic groups in developing as footballers; Possible model for developing youth football; Key obstacles to the development of football participation among children.

Selection and training of goalkeepers starting from an early age is an up-to-date scientific research theme, taking into account the role and functions of these players in the modern football game. In fact the tendencies and characteristics in the development of the world football game implies a large set of measures and concrete solutions regarding orientation, initial selection, training and participation in competitions, of the "human material", promoted in the sports of performance in general and in the football of performance in special. This kind of demand is not self accomplished and moreover it will not be put into practice if the following adjacent problematic of our thesis is not taken into account. OBJECTIVE: 1. Establishing the pattern of the football goalkeepers of high performance. 2. Identify the favouring skills for the position of goalkeeper and of the criteria of evaluation. 3. Analyze the skills conducing to high performance in children, ages 10 to14. 4. Design selection criteria for goalkeepers at an early age. 5. Drawing up programs of initiating-training of goalkeepers. 6. Implementation the programs. 7. The attained results printed in final draft. 8. Elaboration of the theses in a final form. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES: For achieving and accomplishing purposes of the research, the following methods of research have been used: - Methodology of bibligraphic study; Pedagogical observation method; Mesurement method; Experimental method; Study case method; Statistic - matemathical method of processing and interpretation of data and graphical method. RESULTS: Following the study of the literatur of speciality, the profiles of the football goalkeeper of high performance has been established and the favouring natural dispositions for this position and their evaluation criteria have been identified. We have focused on identifying the bio-psicho-social parameters liable to be noted in establishing the profile of the high-performance goalkeeper on national and international plan. At the basis of this models were the data gathered and processed on 10 goalkeepers in the World football and goalkeepers in the League I of the roumanian championship, out of which we chose 10 with a high competitional value, in order to be compared to international models and at the same time to be points of reference in the orientation of juniors being in this position. We found data for the following dimensions of the pattern: weight, size, breasts, proportions, chest perimeter, palm lenght, biacromial and bitrohanterian diameter. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: We can say that the ideal pattern of a goalkeeper is characterised by the following natural dispositions: Anthropometric: size, proportions, palm lenght, breasts perimeter, biocromial diameter, bitrohanterial diameter. Physical qualities: speed in all kinds of manifestation, mainly speed of reaction, skills, agility, high jump, flexibility, endurance, power. Physiological: cardiovascular health, functional, aerobic, anaerobic, effort capacity Psyhomotric qualities: body scheme, general and segmented coordination capacity, space-time perception, quickness of movements, anticipation capacity. Psychical: distributive attention, self control, stress resistance, capacity of learning/assimilating, passion for the game, emotional control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a summary of the study "An observational study of a successful Pop Warner football coach," by J. O. Seagrave and C. A. Ciancio, originally published in the "Journal of Teaching in Physical Education." The article discusses youth football coach Beau Kilmer, coach-athlete interactions, football instruction, and collegiate coaches Frank Kush and John Wooden.

Background: Implementation profoundly influences how well new audiences engage with sport-based physical activity programmes. Recognising that effective implementation relies on concurrently generating supportive contexts, systems and networks for the least engaged 'target' groups; this paper aims to address what underpins children's (non) engagement with football-based physical activity.Methods: An observational research design, using a non-probability sample of N = 594 primary and secondary schoolchildren assessed outcomes of a three-year 'City of Football' (CoF) programme. Pupils self-reported football participation, personal friendship networks and exposure to six concurrent sources of influence (SoI). A 2-step hierarchical cluster analysis and univariate analyses assessed between-cluster differences.Results: Girls played football least regularly (χ2 [4] = 86.722, p = 0.000). Overall, participation was significantly associated with personal networks engaged in football. Boys' personal networks were more stable and structurally effective. Football participation was also positively and linearly association with SoI scores. Girls and pupils with no personal networks around football reported the lowest SoI scores. Three clusters emerged, dominated by social network influences. The Traditional Market (n = 157, 27.7%) comprised 81.7% boys; they regularly played football, had the most effective network structure and scored highly across all six domains of SoI. The Sporadically Engaging Socialisers (n = 190, 33.5%) comprised 52.9% girls who rarely played football, reported low SoI scores and an inferior network structure. In the Disconnected cluster (n = 220, 38.8%), 59.3% were non-footballing girls who reported the lowest motivation and ability SoI scores; and no personal networks engaged in football.Conclusions: This study reveals new insights about the primacy of social network effects for engaging children in football-based physical activity programmes. With little or no attention to these social-oriented issues, such interventions will struggle to attract 'target' children, but will readily engage already well-connected, experienced football-playing boys. The challenge for drawing non-footballing children into football-based interventions lies with engaging children - especially girls - whose social networks are not football-focused, while they also find football neither personally motivating nor easy to do. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article features the U.S. National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA) and USA Football's Heads Up Football, a U.S. organization working to improve football participation for all children. Topics discussed include Heads Up Football's components of coaching education, concussion awareness, proper fitting of equipment, teaching proper tackling technique and emphasizing heat and hydration factors, as well as latest studies showing a decline in sports participation.