Selected motor skills of footballers with regard to the playing level and the playing positon

Abstract

The adequate motor preparation of the players in contemporary
football, based on modern training methods and the assessment of
physical preparation, supported by scientific research, has become a
condition for achieving sports success. Each position requires such a
level of fitness, including speed and endurance, which will enable the
performance of tactical tasks regardless of increasing tiredness. The
study covered 99 footballers (including 8 goalkeepers, 27 defenders,
40 midfielders and 24 forwards) at the age of 23.9 ± 5.3 years,
representing clubs at four league levels. The aim of the work was to
define the correlation of selected motor skills and somatic features of
the footballers with regard to their playing position and sports mastery
level. In the motor preparation training attention should be paid to the
specificity of the type of play in a given playing position.