Nowadays, the opportunities for boys and girls and boys and girls to move and have motor experiences are less frequent . This objective problem leads young people to be less accustomed to frequent and varied physical activity, with the real risk of potentially becoming sedentary adults.
The practice of football can therefore represent the ideal context to offer many opportunities for motor skills, and the coaches' knowledge therefore becomes a precious resource to be transferred to the children for their growth.
Students cannot be asked to write an essay if they do not know the words and the relevant grammatical rules.
Likewise, young footballers cannot be expected to perform complex technical gestures if they do not know the basics of motor skills.
This is why the football coach must also equip the kids with a broad motor skills , an indispensable prerequisite to allow them to express themselves during the game with mastery of their body, imagination and above all effectiveness.
Knowing and mastering the basic patterns is in fact a prerequisite for every sport, even more so for an open-skill sport like football.
The methodological proposals in this manual can be a valid help to improve the quality of playing and training sessions in youth football and non-football sectors.
The objective of the paper is to propose exercises with and without the ball for the Football School aimed at developing the basic motor patterns of young footballers aged six to eight.
The paper proposes:
- 4 exercises for each main motor pattern: walking, running, jumping, throwing and catching
- 4 exercises for each secondary motor pattern: rolling, pushing, pulling, crawling, kicking and crawling
- exercises divided according to increasing degree of difficulty, from simple to complex, in relation to age and ability
