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Comparison of the pass skill between professional and u-15 futsal players under different organization contexts
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Londrina State University, Londrina, Brazil
Submission date: 2019-05-14
Acceptance date: 2019-08-23
Publication date: 2020-01-22
Hum Mov. 2020;21(2):58-63
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Purpose:
The paper aimed to compare the performance related to passing among the categories of professional and U-15 futsal players, in open and closed contexts.
Methods:
In total, 25 athletes were evaluated in 2 tests, namely open and closed contexts. The former aimed to observe the complexity of in-game execution in a dynamic and unpredictable mode, while the closed test simulated a closed and predictable task through the isolated execution of the pass. To compare the groups, the Student’s t and Mann-Whitney tests were used, respectively, with the level of significance at p < 0.05.
Results:
There were significant differences across categories in the performance related to the open pass skill (p < 0.001). There were no significant differences in the closed pass context (p = 0.414).
Conclusions:
Only the open context test identified differences in performance between categories, with the superiority of professional players.