Formación del pensamiento táctico en el fútbol base en niños de 12 años

Abstract

The training processes, in the soccer training area, have evolved over the years and for this reason, the teaching-learning process of soccer must be integral. Hence, modern soccer has become very competitive and every time it requires football players with different skills and competencies to remain in the elite of soccer world. Therefore, the objective of this research is to present a didactic strategy to contribute to the formation of tactical thinking in children of the U12 category of "Don Doyo" school in Cuenca, Ecuador. Tactical thinking helps to take advantage of the opponent at different times in the development of a match. In this sense, an exhaustive bibliographic review was carried out around the formation of tactical thinking and then the research instrument was built: survey and the observation sheets of field practice that were applied to the coaches of the soccer school. After the diagnosis, the training process that is carried out in soccer training was reflected on, which shows a series of capabilities of the players that are not being used by the coaches. In conclusion, the implementation of the didactic strategy responds to the needs presented by the children of the soccer school.