The influence of futsal on eye-pedal coordination in schoolchildren aged 8 to 10 years

Abstract

This paper deals with the assessment method futsal players in school and not practicing this method, for the improvement of eye-foot coordination. To measure whether the futsal can assist in the improvement of eye-foot coordination. The history of futsal starting in the decade of thirty. The importance of indoor soccer school in the educational context. The psychomotricity and motor development in physical education classes. We identified two groups of students, regularly enrolled in the College St. Louis, aged between eight and ten years, and the group 1 formed by students of futsal players for at least eighteen months in this institution and group 2, formed by students that only attend the classes of physical education. As the procedure was applied to test for overall praxia-foot-eye coordination. The material used was: sulfite paper, ballpoint pen, a tennis ball, a chair, a tape measure, clipboard and a camera camcorder. Forty-twenty students practicing futsal and twenty students from non-practitioners futsal, which are a result of significant improvement in eye-foot coordination in practitioners of futsal. Recognize the importance of sport as an aid in the coordination of the child and to promote futsal in school for the development of the student as a whole and not aimed at the competition. The indoor soccer is undoubtedly an important tool to improve motor performance of children in school.