The purpose of this dissertation was to find out what influence motor abilities, mainly coordination of movement of the whole body, had on successfulness in soccer play for children aged from 5 to 6, that have already been engaged in soccer in an organised way. This research was based on a sample of 13 soccer players which were 5 to 6 years old. We analysed the characteristics of results obtained from the test of coordination and from the average evaluation of children's successfulness in soccer play, with the help of statistical program SPSS (descriptive statistics, regression analysis, t-test of independent samples, one-way ANOVA). We also analyzed the influence of children's preliminary motor experiences on successfulness in soccer play and on the results of the coordi-nation test.
For verification of successfulness in soccer play we used the average evaluation of 10 marks, based on assessment of two referees from 5 different training sessions. The assessments were determined in accordance with specified evaluation scale (1-5). We analyzed the coordination of movement of the whole body with the coordination test, which was composed of backward movement, clim-bing and descending. We used the best result of every individual out of three repetitions of coor-dination test.
We found out that the results of the coordination test had a very strong influence on successfulness in soccer play for children aged from 5 to 6 (r = 0,75). We came to the conclusion that coordination of movement of the whole body is one of the most important motor abilities in relation to soccer play. According to the research motor experiences had a very strong influence on successfulness in soccer play and on the results of the coordination test for children aged from 5 to 6. For more useful results we should have had an extended sample of individuals.
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