Age-specific dynamics of response rates in football players

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S.V. Kondratovich1
PhD, Professor A.V. Zakharova1
1Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg

Objective of the study was to identify the age-specific dynamics of the response rates in the 10-15 year-old football players.
Methods and structure of the study. Sampled for the study were the 10-15 year-old football players (n=18) training at the Sports School of Olympic Reserve "VIZ-Sinara", winners of the Russian futsal championships (2018; 2019-2020), many-time finalists and medal winners of the regional and national futsal tournaments. The longitudinal study of the subjects’ psychomotor system performance indicators was carried out using the hardware and software complex "NS-Psychotest" ("Neurosoft" LLC, Ivanovo city). We analyzed the football players’ simple (SVMR) and complex visual-motor response rates. A total of 190 samples were analyzed over 5 years (2014-2019).
The statistical data processing was made using the STATISTICA 23.0 software package. The statistical significance of differences was determined by the parametric Student's t-test.
Results of the study and conclusions. The simple visual-motor response rates in the football players ranged from 226.5±76.46 ms in the 10-11 year-olds to 188.67±33.44 ms in the 15 year-olds. The complex visual-motor response rates were also characterized by an upward trend: from 483.32±45.8 ms in the 10 year-olds to 297.51±27.81ms in the 14-15 year-olds. The results presented can be used as due reference values in monitoring the effectiveness of the training process and selection of junior football players.

Keywords: response rate, age peculiarities, junior football players, simple visual-motor response, complex visual-motor response.

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