The effect of defensive exercises on developing control and cutting inside the penalty area for young football players

Abstract

The defensive side in football is responsible for blocking balls, monitoring, covering, pressing, and keeping dangerous balls away from the defending team's goal, by applying several duties or methods on the field, which the players of the defending team are assigned to implement, each according to his position and the duty assigned to him, in order to remove the danger of attacks from the opposing team. One of the most goal-scoring areas is the penalty area, in which the attackers move in order to reach the ball quickly and perform the scoring process, whether with the foot or the head, in static situations, or in different playing situations from the side or from deep, whether by handling or dribbling, despite the presence of defensive players who outnumber them within this important area for the defending team, whichThe researcher decided to prepare defensive exercises and know their impact on developing the skills of controlling and cutting inside the penalty area for young football players. The researcher used the experimental method by designing two equal groups (experimental and control) with pre- and post-measurements that are compatible with the nature of the research problem and achieving the desired goals. The research sample was chosen in a simple random way and by lottery, and they were the youth of the Martyr Football Sports Club, numbering (25) players. They were randomly divided into two groups: experimental (10) players and control (10). The sample was distributed by dividing the players into groups and according to playing positions, and the selection was made randomly by drawing lots. The researcher recommended paying attention to defensive training in developing the defensive side inside the penalty area.