Conhecimento de regras do futsal entre jovens praticantes na categoria sub 15: um estudo de caso

Abstract

Futsal is one of the most popular team sports in the world, and is considered the gateway for children and young people to enter the world of sports. In Brazil, futsal has a great influence in the school environment, being a sport considered as a reduced-sided football. Despite its similarity to football played on the field, futsal has its own well-defined characteristics and differences. These characteristics are easily noticed, from the environment where it is played, the number of players and the rules present in the matches. In view of this, the objective of this research was to identify the level of knowledge of futsal rules among students from schools in the education network of Maceió-AL. This study was a descriptive field research, with a quantitative approach through a questionnaire. The sample consisted of 16 male students, aged between 14 and 16 years old, who are part of under-15 futsal teams at their respective school. Based on the scores obtained in the questionnaire, we identified that the level of knowledge of these participants is below expectations when it comes to knowledge of futsal rules, since only half of the participants managed to score more than 50% of the total score, and in the total sum of the points of the 16 participants, they had a success rate of 48.9% (133/272). These results imply the need for a theoretical-practical pedagogical intervention in the training environment of the teacher who will be in charge of these students practicing the sport in order to improve the performance index mainly in tactical aspects (more assertive decision-making) during the matches.