Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International Conference on Sport, Education and Psychology (icSEP), Bucharest, Romanya, 9 - 11 Mayıs 2017, cilt.24, ss.13-19
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the skills that will positively influence child development, such as attention, eye-hand coordination and reaction time, among young competitors and non-competitor soccer players. A total of twenty six soccer players (Non-competitor soccer group: 13 players who practice two days a week at Lara Soccer School; Competitor soccer group: 13 players playing in Lara Soccer Club) aged between 10-12 years took part in present study. Cognitrone Test (Vienna Test System), Lafayette Two-Arm Coordination Test and Reaction Time Test were administered to the participants. According to the results of Cognitrone test, there was a statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of the mean time of correct rejections and the total working time. It can be said that decision time in the attention test of competitor soccer players is better than that of non-competitor. In reaction time test, there was no significant difference between competitor and non-competitor soccer player in recessive hand reaction time, dominant and recessive hand percentage of success. However, competitor soccer players had significantly better dominant hand reaction time than the non-competitor soccer players. Results of two arm coordination test revealed that, there were no significant differences between competitors and non-competitor soccer players in two arm coordination time and accuracy. According to the results of the present study it can be said that being a competitor in soccer young league has a positive effect on percentage of success in the reaction time and decision time in eye-hand coordination test. (C) 2017 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK