The Effect of Proposed Training Exercises on Improving Motor Response Speed and Scoring Accuracy for Junior Soccer Players at the Modern Academy in Zawiya

Abstract

Motor response speed is an important requirement for juniors. In football, motor response speed is the time required from the moment a scoring opportunity appears until the end of the scoring process. The importance of scoring stems from the fact that it is not a stand-alone skill, but rather a set of interconnected skills, as basic complex skills such as receiving, passing, and dribbling serve only to achieve scoring success. The problem is revealed in answering the question: Will the proposed exercises further improve motor response speed, technical performance, and accuracy in scoring? The research aims to determine the effect of the proposed exercises on improving motor response speed for junior soccer players (at the Modern Academy for Juniors in Zawiya). The researchers used an experimental approach with a single-group design. The sample consisted of 15 adolescents aged ten years, representing 33% of the original population. The researchers concluded that the training they conducted to improve motor response speed in the research sample, by fulfilling the first hypothesis, resulted in a high rate of improvement between the pre- and post-measurement, in favor of the post-measurement. The rate of improvement on the left side was higher than on the right side in motor response speed, with an improvement rate of 26.605%, while the improvement rate on the right side was 20.588%.