Use of Video Analysis in Youth Football

IntroductionOne of the most important variables for action efficiency in soccer is the time an athlete takes to carry out a certain movement. (Tursi D. and al. 2013). On the qualitative aspect, the soccer is a sport where the time variable is very important in the control of motor learning process (G. Raiola, 2012). In fact, in soccer, it is particularly adequate considering development of motary capacity for technical characteristics, space and game rules, where time analysis, evaluation, elaboration and execution is limited with respect to other group sports (Schmidth & Wrisberg 2008). This is the reason why it can be considered particularly adequate regarding players 8-10 years of age (Winter, R., in: Meinel, K., e Schnabel, G. 1984), in order to gain and develop the specific techniques of the game. Furthermore, motary imagination (Sanders et al., 2004 e Bandura, 1997) can favor qualitative motary learning if it is added in the weekly training program. The goal of the study is to compare two sample groups and to verify if the group who followed a training program in which filmed footage of themselves or of model motary executions was shown better learned specific techniques as compared to the group to whom no footage was shown. Very often, the new scientific discoveries are not transformed in innovation of training work out. This is still more truth if we analyzed the motor and sport train, where the routine doesn't, for the most part, based on assumed scientific, but on personal experiences or old customs. This void, that we could call "post-discovery", it is the space to which we will go to insert our research, consistent in to use the recent discoveries in neuro-cognitive-learning (Cattaneo L, Rizzolatti G, 2009), in methodological routine for the sporting teaching in young players, as well as in to find an operational model way to analyze and to value the quality of the technical learning. In the world of the young soccer players is custom to use some simple technical- technical tests to be able to formulate some judgments and evaluations reliable to be inserted in the general planning of activities and to allow correctly the individual formative learning from who is appointed to the evaluation. As for other sporting disciplines also in the game of the Soccer the technical abilities of the athlete is held by different authors to depend on innate ability and not easily modifiable working on the learning, above all after a lot of experiences has been effected. Insofar, the work developed in the young players sector has a great importance in how much the children experience is still limited and in evolution period. Scientific evidences in produced literatures are not found concerning the application of the ideo-motor training by video with children and the evaluation through the performance analysis on the process of learning in 10 years old players.Material & methodsParticipantsThe study participants were composed by 20 young male players 9-10 years aged (pre-teen-agers) and divided into two homogenous groups (simple and control). All players had one year of experience in soccer in same team and with same coach.All data were collected through an evaluation grids prepared "ad hoc" by the technical and researcher, based on the execution performed and on more common errors in young playersProceduresThe study is divided into three periods:* in the first phase (entry) a pre-evaluation of the abilities , they have been conducted through some technical tests on the fundamental technique takes in object of the study (control the ball with the sole directed, guide the ball moving the ball with the sole, kick the ball with the toe) on 9-10 years old (pre-teen-agers) divided by the technician in two homogeneous groups (group champion n=10, control's group n =10). The technical gestures were videotaped and analyzed by the technician using an observation grid prepared ad hoc. …