The effectiveness of response speed and its relationship to the defensive skills performance of young football goalkeepers

Abstract

      The research problem was that most goalkeeper coaches rely on skill-specific educational mechanisms only without resorting to using auxiliary factors that accompany the learning process due to the importance of motor abilities in the learning process. Therefore, the researcher suggested finding a solution to this problem, which is improving the performance of goalkeepers at the beginning of learning through some basic skills for goalkeepers that include exercises related to coordination, balance, and other agility. Therefore, the study aimed to prepare special exercises for some basic defensive skills and develop the motor abilities of young goalkeepers. Regarding the research procedures, the researcher used the experimental approach and the two-equal-group method. The research community included goalkeepers for four clubs participating in the Iraqi Youth League representing the Middle Euphrates region. The research sample was selected, which is the youth goalkeepers for clubs in the Diwaniyah and Najaf governorates, with (10) goalkeepers, who were divided into two experimental groups and a control group. The researcher also prepared a special training program for young goalkeepers after presenting it to a group of experts and specialists. It was applied for two months, as a pre-test was conducted for the sample members and a post-test for each skill, after it was learned directly. The researchers used the statistical package (ssps). In light of the results obtained, the researcher reached the most important conclusions: The training program had a better effect than the method followed by the coach in developing basic skills (stabbing movement to block upper and lower balls, blocking balls by jumping (spreading), blocking balls from the wings )