Class Futsal (Elective I - Physical Education and School Sport branch)

Futsal is a collaborative team game in which players are required to adapt to change within a dynamic environment. An environment in which they have a restricted amount of time and space in which to make decisions and perform actions that provide solutions for their team. Futsal implies a high level of motor involvement and intense practice, with tactical aspects (in terms of perception and decision making) being crucial to the effectiveness of each game element. Being a collective sports game that aims at cooperation between the constituent elements of the team with the objective of achieving victory at the end of the game. For a better cooperation, the leader elaborates a set of procedures that lead to the achievement of the goal. The knowledge, skills and abilities in this area enrich the bases of intervention of the professional Sports Training and School Sports, specifically at the level of understanding the training and leadership of groups.

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Futsal Technique and Tactics 1. History of futsal 2. Futsal as a team sport  3. Principles and fundamentals of futsal  4. Game situations  5. Teaching futsal  6. Goalkeeper's ready positions  Futsal training methodology 1. Sporting performance 2. Motor skills  3. Training with young people  4. Organisation and planning of training  5. Training microcycle  6. Training session  7. Training exercise  Psychology applied to futsal 1. Coach's motivation and philosophy 2. Coach-player relationship  3. Coach's personal reflection  Refereeing and Laws of the Game 1. Refereeing 2. Refereeing within the Football Association  3. Laws of the Game  Futsal Management and Organisation 1. The social role of a futsal club 2. The origins of futsal  3. Organisation of activities and administrative procedures 

The course will comprise theoretical lectures, theoretical-practical sessions and practical teaching/fieldwork sessions. The b-learning system will be used to provide teaching materials. For continuous assessment, students will have: two attendance checks and two practical assessments (final mark: 0.2 × Attendance + 0.5 × Practical assessment + 0.3 × Discussions). The requirement for a minimum mark of 9.5 in each assessment component, in addition to achieving a final weighted average of 9.5 or higher, reflects the Bachelor's Degree in Physical Education and Sport's commitment to academic rigour and the quality of education. This requirement aims to ensure that students demonstrate the acquisition of essential competences across all components of the course module, promoting a solid education, professional responsibility and academic merit, which are fundamental to ethical, critical and competent practice within the profession.

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