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 Technical and Tactical Training 1. History of futsal 2. Futsal as a team sport 3. Principles and fundamentals of futsal 4. Game actions 5. Teaching futsal 6. Goalkeeper readiness positions Futsal training methodology  1. Sports performance  2. Motor skills  3. Training with young people  4. Training organisation and planning  5. Training microcycle  6. Training session  7. Training exercise  Psychology applied to futsal  1. Coach motivation and philosophy  2. Coach-player relationship  3. Coach personal reflection  Refereeing and rules of the game 1. Refereeing  2. Refereeing within the FA  3. Rules of the game Futsal management and organisation 1. Social function of a futsal club  2. Roots of futsal  3. Organisation of activities and administrative procedures ¿

Constant connection between theory and practice with its implementation in training clubs and observations of high-level team and national team training sessions.

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