The influence of tactical models of team play on the dynamics of collective ball control indicators in football

Background and purpose To select recommendations for increasing the level of collective ball control indicators in modern football, it is necessary to develop and experimentally implement tactical models of team play in the training process of football players. Purpose: to determine the influence of tactical models of team play on the dynamics of collective ball control indicators in football. Material and methods Players of the national student football team of a leading technical university of Ukraine took part in the study. The total number of subjects was 22 players, who were distributed according to equal indicators of physical and technical fitness into two groups, control and experimental. The assessment of individual technical and tactical actions of players was carried out using video analysis of control matches according to two indicators: the number and quality of ball passes to a partner. All data obtained during the experimental study were processed using well-known methods of mathematical statistics: x̄ - arithmetic mean; σ - standard deviation; m – error of representativeness of the arithmetic mean; t – reliability of the difference between the mean values ​​(according to the Student’s t-test). Results The tactical models of team play applied in the training process of the experimental group had a positive effect on the dynamics of collective ball control indicators, in contrast to the control group of players where similar models were not used in the training process. During the 12-month experiment in all control matches, the players of the experimental group demonstrated a stable dynamic of increasing the indicators of collective control of the ball in all six 15-minute time segments of playing time (p<0.01). Conclusions The results obtained indicate the effectiveness of the application of tactical models of team play in the training process of football players. Tactical models are a new method of forming players' psychological skills of rational thinking and tactical behavior in the middle of the game space, which in the end has a positive effect on the quantitative and qualitative indicators of game activity. Team tactical models form specific psychological attitudes in players through the following steps: 1. Mastering a rational model of tactical behavior of the player, which he learns in the middle of an artificially created tactical reality for this. 2. Game practice of football players, when they are forced to reproduce a certain model of tactical behavior proposed by the coach in certain game situations within the game space. In this space, players encounter pre-prepared problem tactical situations that are solved in a rational way. 3. Finding the right solutions by players in problem situations leads to a gradual increase in the quality and quantity of indicators of collective ball control during the game.