THE USE OF VIDEO ANALYSIS IN FUTSAL AS A TOOL IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT TEACHING METHOD

Futsal originated in Uruguay in 1930, als known as "Five-a-side soccer" and in South America it is known as futbol de salon, which means indoor football. The official international denomination is Futsal, derived from two words: futbol (soccer) and salon, that is the hall or covered place. In Futsal, one of the most important variables to perform an effective action, it is the time needed by the athlete to complete his own movement. Futsal is beneficial to develop unique motor skills due to the technical characteristics of the game, such as the rules and the playing field in which the time to analyze, evaluate, elaborate, and execute is limited when compared to other team sports. Futsal is particularly fashionable for children because they are going to learn the futsal skills. For this reason, the Italian Soccer Federation (F.I.G.C.) has instituted futsal schools and has mandated Soccer 5 in its own basic programs. Furthermore, sport skills may be learned if they are included in the weekly training program. The aim is to verify whether members of a sample are better at learning specific skills, as compared to a control group. The sample players watch and review videotaped actions or skills taken from the video recorded while they play futsal skills module twice a week for one year. Only 10 players view training videos before each practice. The two groups have the homogeneous skills and each group is tested at the beginning, during, and at the end of the study period on three skills of the game, selected from fundamentals of play: 1) Control of the ball: oriented ball control with the bottom foot (called "stop by sole" or "sole control"); 2) Driving the ball: moving the ball with the sole; 3) Shooting: tip shoot. Two experts and the highly skilled sample player evaluate the videotape together. Evaluation is done using multiple regression analysis of the curves of the two groups. Significant increases in the execution of the playing techniques should be found in the videotaped sample group and should lead to an in-depth study with a larger study sample. These positive findings would suggest the using of video analysis as a tool in training soccer for both educational and performance purposes.