The effect of organizational differentiation in football training on young football players.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) has a primary goal of providing children and adolescents with a good football offer and positive football experiences, where differentiation is one way to achieve this. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect organizational differentiation has on psychological and physical variables in 13-14-year-old male football players.

Methods

An intervention study with an experimental randomized crossover design was used, where players from three football teams participated in two differentiated training sessions and two non-differentiated training sessions. The four training sessions had the same exercises, with the same coach. The physical measurements involved heart rate, number of accelerations, number of sprint

SUBMITTER: Stordal O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12643876 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature