Class Training and Competition Organization and Planning

The dominant characteristic of UC is its global nature, integrating and synthesis of knowledge, processes and methods conducive to the highest performance, from training to high competition.

Thus it is sought that the student:

- Understand, fundand develop a systemic conception of the training and competition process, implying the widest set of integral elements.

- Master and apply to the training and competition process the concepts of unity, complexity, totality and emergency.

- Question and establish the relationships and interactions between the usual training and competition components, namely motor, technical-tactical and psycho-social skills.

- Research, establish and schedule considering the permanent interaction between objectives, processes, methodologies and evaluation results.

- Be able to plan individual and team development in the short, medium and long term from training to high competition.

1. Systemic conception of the training process.

2. Characterization of specific effort in football: motor skills, psychological requirements, contents technical and tactical and theoretical preparation.

3. Fundamentals of the periodization of training and its application in Football: structural elements and their functions. Analysis of ways to gradually increase the training load over the years.

4. Effects of training: types and means of control and evaluation.

5. Study and comparative analysis of the organization and planning of training and competition in various stages of training of the footballer.

6. Process and stages of individual and collective development.

7. Technical team Direction and coordination.

There are no known innovative methodologies capable of leading the student to become aware of their conceptions and limitations, as well as the need to overcome them.

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