Abstract:

Senseball, which has been frequently used in the infrastructure teams of our country’s amateur football clubs, professional football clubs and the world’s leading football clubs in recent years, has become of interest to sports science. For this reason, the aim of this study is to examine the effects of this training method used everywhere in the world on technical skills performance of football players. The study was conducted on a total of 70 football players, 35 in the experimental group and 35 in the control group, in U11 and U12 age groups who were attending training actively at least two days a week at Samsunspor and Atakum Belediyespor clubs. A pretest-posttest model with control was applied in the study. Groups were randomly created considering similar characteristics. While the groups continued their routine training, the experimental group worked with Senseball for an extra 20 minutes for 8 weeks according to the protocol created by the researcher. Mor-Christian general soccer ability test (dribbling, passing, shooting) and Yeagley Soccer test (bouncing) tests were applied to all players at the beginning and end of the study. Dribbling, accurate passing and bouncing test with dominant and non-dominant foot and accurate shooting test with dominant foot were given to all players who participated in the study. When statistical values were examined in terms of the experimental and control group, while a positive improvement was found in the variables of accurate passing dominant foot, accurate passing non-dominant foot, accurate shooting dominant foot, bouncing dominant foot, and bouncing non-dominant foot; no significant difference was found in the variables of dribbling dominant foot and dribbling non-dominant foot. As a result of the study, it was concluded that senseball caused a positive improvement in technical skills performance of football players and had a significant effect especially on players’ non-dominant foot and accurate shooting performance. Therefore, young players can practice every day so that they can contact the ball more and develop their shooting technique and coaches can include senseball in their training plans.

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