Analysis of the execution of defensive tactical principles between futsal practice school children

Abstract

The present study aimed to compare the core tactical defensive principles between different game categories in futsal. Thirty-one students from a private school in the city of Maringá-PR, futsal practitioners, were divided into U-10, U-12 and U-14 age groups. All subjects were submitted to the "GR3-3GR" test to allow tactical analyzes following the "FUT-SAT" protocol. The identification of the most tactical defensive executed by the players was obtained through the tests of Friedman and Wilcoxon. Subsequently, the Kruskall-Wallis test followed by Mann-Whitney U test were used to perform comparisons (p<0.05). The results presented significantly higher values for the achievement of the "delay" and "defensive unit" principles, indicating that these were the most performed actions by the students (p <0.01). When comparing the execution of the tactical actions between U-10, U-12 and U-14 categories "defensive unit" principle less frequently performed by U-10 category than other categories (Md = 13.00 vs. Md = 20.50 vs. Md = 18.50, respectively). In this way, the actions that favor the obstruction of the space of the attacker with the ball, as well as the tactical behaviors that guarantee the action of the defense in block, were the most prevalent in young students practicing futsal. However, U-10 category presented difficulties in carrying out the actions that guarantee the defensive cohesion and the approximation of the marking lines.