Game based and multilateral approach in youth soccer training: a choice so that health and sporting targets can coexist

The analysis on how young people are introduced to sport is very topical, especially for soccer which in Italy has around 700,000 young players and more than 28,000 coaches. For these reasons the team sports, and the soccer in particular, are looking for a methodology capable of structuring more effectively the requirements necessary for the training of the future athlete / player. The relationship between the way to organize the youth training approach and the effects of this approach not only affect the learning skills effectiveness but also involve issues relating to the young athlete health

The Interval Kicking Program (IKP) as a Reprogramming Technique for the Soccer Player in an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Rehabilitation: A Technical Report

Introduction. We can state as technical-athletic gestural movements that we might call clinical (pivoting, cutting maneuvers, sidestep cuts, changes of direction) associated with ACL injuries. Objective. This technical report was conducted to research methods of reprogramming basic technical skills in the soccer player after anterior cruciate ligament reconstructive surgery. Technical report results. The Interval Kicking Program (IKP) is a model proposed as a neuromotor remodelling of basic gestures and techniques after an ACL injury in soccer player. The teaching progression is ordered regarding the diversified techniques of passing and receiving the ball. The volume, intensity, and progression steps are governed by 1) clinical status (i.e., type of injury, conservative/surgical treatment type, type of sport), 2) performance status, and 3) objective evaluative analysis of periodic follow-ups. The steps provid-ed by the IKP can be 15 and end with the introduction of the player into technical drills with the presence of opponents the first sessions include about 30 minutes of sport-specific, low-intensity exercises, while in the last ones, the volume remains constant, but the intensity and technical complexity of the movements increase. Conclusions. In this technical report, we have highlighted how IKP can be a teaching model for reprogramming basic technical skills in the soccer player after injury. It remains fair to point out how aberrant technical movement partners, side-to-side asymmetries, and postur-al dysfunction are predictive of the risk of compliance and second injury. Further studies and insights are needed to customize the reprogramming of the soccer player’s gestural movements during return to play. © 2023, EDRA S.p.A. All rights reserved

Core Stability Training and Jump Performance in Young Basketball Players

The strength core is an important prerequisite to perform sport skills and to perform some everyday activities such as walking, climbing stairs, postural control. The literature, so far, it is mainly dedicated to the description of the effectiveness of core stability exercises in athletes or insedentary adults, with lumbar pain. The study describes the effects of an integrative training of core stabilityon jump performance in young basketball players. In total 44 young basketball players (19 female gender, 25 male gender, age7.07 ± 0.3yrs, height 114, 4 ± 4.3 cm weight 26.8 ± 2.7 kg) participated and were assigned to either an intervention(EG) or a control group (CG). The training program has had a duration of 4 weeks (8 sessions twice a week, for one hour); EG, besides the sports-specific exercises and introduced in the warm up 4 core exercises stability. The strength was evaluated through monopodalic and vertical jump. The results revealed that the 4-week core stability training program improved the left(p<0.05) and right (p<0.001), hop test, the 6m timed hop left and right test (p <0.0005).The CG has obtained statistically significant benefits only in the bipodalic vertical jump (p<0.01). The study confirms the need to introduce integrative core stability exercise, as well as the literature suggests. The study highlighted the functional relationships between core stability and jump performance in prepubertal basketball players

Commentary: Development of Defensive Actions in Small-Sided and Conditioned Games With Offensive Purposes in Futsal

To prepare athletes for the physiological demands of soccer and futsala competitions, coaches need to identify effective training modalities. Small-sided games (SSGs) are frequently used by coaches to develop the technical abilities of players as well as their conditioning capacity through the recruitment of sport-specific movement patterns. SSGs comprise a very wide variety of exercises that can be manipulated by the staff according to the goal of a single session or the week of training. SSGs are employed in the training programs of both professional soccer players and young soccer players

What Training for the Young Soccer Player?—A Letter to Editor

This diversification of the motor tasks with which the young soccer player is confronted, involves a continuous search for solutions to motor problems in order to find the most adequate, economical and correct coordination. The idea of verifying the effectiveness of this supplementary training is consistent with the proposals of models of talent development or young sportsmen present in literature: the Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD), the Developmental Model of Sport Partecipation (DMSP), the Athletic Skills Model (ASM) and the Composite Youth Development (CYD) are just a few examples of longterm training patterns. The LTAD, for example, provides a very broad basis for experimentation with all the fundamental movements and constitutes a real point of reference for planning multi-year training. For these reasons, the integration of knowledge of fundamental movements, the knowledge of correct execution technique and the introduction of sportspecific exercises with constraints manipulation (Small-sided games) can represent a functional methodological orientation end to the soccer player development

Forza ed alta prestazione nel calcio

Si descrivono le metodologie di allenamento nel calcio professionistico relativamente alla capacità di forz