Diversity and graduality of content implementation in children's football are two of most essential matters that enable children to enjoy healthy, diverse, versatile and long-term movement development. We know that movement knowledge accumulates fastest at children due to accelerated biological and physical development. That is why all coaches who are working with young athletes should bear in mind that quality, graduality and diversity of teaching are key factors that can guarantee the effectiveness of the training process and the quality of child's mental and physical development at the same time.
In youth football player’s development we should strive to create good basics and solid foundations that will throughout the years of the training process enable him to get as close to the model of a modern footballer as possible, while he will perceive sport as a value, respect it and enjoy.
Children are those who can, because of their playfulness, curiosity and joy of movement, tirelessly learn new elements and repeat them again and again. Through series of repetition they consolidate them in their motion programs, which enable them to trust in their knowledge and continuously improve it.
According to all above, the coach is required to plan his work, constantly think about it, gradually implement new and more difficult elements and through his interpretation make it understandable to footballers. This is only possible when he has enough knowledge to systematically approach to work, has a vision of player’s development, prepares plans for different periods of training process and realizes the planned through his work on the field.
For the purpose of this master's thesis we presented the course of a child's mental and physical development, complexity of developing his movement knowledge, motor and functional abilities, trends in modern football, the model of modern footballer, gradual teaching of technical and tactical elements, and main characteristics of a youth coach.
Theoretical content was enriched with a concrete plan of content implementations through specific age groups in children's football and with number of practical exercises, where besides the course of the exercises, we also described and defined the purpose of planning, creating and setting the training objectives.
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