An Observing Study on the Use of Problem-Solving in Football for the 11–12-Year-Old Children

Abstract

In this study, we follow the changes generated by applying the problem-solving method based on an observation sheet for two groups of 40 boys aged between 11 and 12 years from “Steaua Bucharest” Children and Junior Centre and from the “Mircea Eliade” Sports High School. Certain effects of the application of this method are represented by: endowing the player with skills, knowledge, and attitudes in accordance with the age-specific objectives, increasing the degree of real participation, developing attention and concentration as well as improving the level of acumen, and creative thinking of the athlete within the experimental group.