Conjunto de atividades para atingir a motivação em atletas de futebol na faixa etária de 9 a 10 anos

Motivation in physical activity and sports is one of the fields of interest, with the greatest number of publications currently developing strategies to facilitate intervention aimed at achieving maximum levels of performance in competitive sports. This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted using a pre-experiment experimental method and a quantitative case-control methodology with a pre- and post-test of the proposed solution to the problem. The objective was to implement a set of activities to achieve sports motivation in the 9-10 age group soccer team from the municipality of San Cristóbal, Artemisa province. The population and sample were the 22 athletes on the team, consisting of a study group and a control group. When applying the T-test to determine whether both groups differed significantly from each other with respect to their means, the main result was that the set of activities was effective in their purposes at the .01 level.