7 Reasons why Football training is Important for kids

Football training is important for kids because it is not Just about any sport or physical activity. It will help to develop a child’s lop physical literacy and movement skills. However, if you had to pick one sport to choose that created the most skills and capacities, it would have to be Football. Even at the basic levels of development, physical literacy includes an extensive list of fundamental movement skills. The most essential of these generally accepted are running, jumping, throwing, catching, kicking, hopping, skipping, galloping, and dodging. These skills are based on a foundation of physical capacities called the ABCs of movement: agility, balance, coordination, and speed. Star football training covers all these aspects in the football classes in the three locations.

Throw some spatial orientation skills and cognitive decision-making into the mix; you have most of what makes up physical literacy.

7 Reasons Why Football Training is Important for Kids in Dubai and Sharjah

1. ABCs for during Football training for kids

Agility, balance, coordination, and speed exercises during football training are closely connected to developing the central nervous system (CNS) in early childhood. The bodies of preschool children silently wait for the stimulation that will get the CNS to prepare and adapt to the ABCs. As it happens, quick changes of direction and diversity of movement are intrinsic to soccer, so the simple act of playing the game provides the perfect stimuli to help children to develop these capacities. You can almost hear each child’s CNS saying: “Gee, thanks for registering me in soccer!”

2. Running during a Football training for kids

Football training involves a lot of running. And best of all, for children, it will provide exactly the variation of running they need: short-distance sprinting followed by short time intervals of recovery.

3. Jumping, hopping, skipping, galloping, and dodging during Football training for kids

When your child plays soccer during the game or training drills, there are a lot of other players on the field who are excited to run and play the ball. Consequently, the game demands that kids do a lot of jumping and dodging to evade opponents. It also requires that they hop, skip, and even gallop at times as they change speed and adjust their stride to avoid players and change direction.

4. Throwing and catching during a Football training for kids

Hold on. When are you allowed to use your hands in Football? For starters, the ball passes out of play on the sidelines every time. Play restarts with a throw-in, and every player needs to learn how to do it. And goalkeepers, a position just about every child plays at some point during their early years in the game, consistently catch the ball with their hands and pass it to teammates with a baseball-style throw.

5. Tracking the movement of an object in flight during a Football training for kids

One of the less discussed aspects of physical literacy — but integral to throwing and catching as well as striking something with a bat or racquet — is the ability to track the movement of an object (e.g., ball) as it travels through the air. Your child’s ability to use her eyes to track activity and estimate speed and distance does not “just happen.” As with movement skills, it needs to be developed through real experience and practice. Football provides plenty of experience as the game constantly challenges players to gauge the ball’s speed, distance, and trajectory.

6. Decision-making during a Football training for kids

Another element of physical literacy often overlooked is the ability to “read the environment” and respond with appropriate decisions. In a sport such as Football, it is deciding to pass the ball to a teammate running to open space or shooting at a goal when the goalkeeper is out of position. The game consistently creates new cognitive challenges where players must gather information from their physical environment, analyze it, and execute an appropriate physical response.

7. Kicking during a Football training for kids

Not much needs to be said here. There is a lot of kicking in football training, as our focus at Star Football Academy is for the kids to touch the ball as often as possible. The range of kicking techniques can eventually become remarkably complex as players develop. (For instance, according to the studies, players in Hungary used to be expected to be able to play the ball with eight different foot surfaces. How many can even identify eight distinct characters on one foot?)

Football is a great start to physical literacy and is one sport that can benefit your child’s development. Star Football Academy offers football classes in Al Barsha, Football classes in Mirdif, football classes in Sharjah, and Indoor football classes in the hot months. If you like, you can book free try Out types. Book now.