Needs and interests in leisure time of Colegio Menor San Francisco of Quito soccer team

Abstract

Introduction: Sports training is an integral process in which several variables influence, the management of free time can influence the sports performance of soccer players; therefore, the diagnosis of needs and interests is the first step to efficiently manage the process. Objective: Determining the physical-recreational needs and interests of the players of the San Francisco de Quito Junior College, Sub Category 14. Methods: The survey technique is applied to the population of 32 soccer players of the San Francisco de Quito Junior College, Sub Category 14 (11 questions), including his two coaches (3 questions). Results: The most relevant of the variables studied were those related to the tastes and preferences in the choice of various activities by the free time of the players, highlighting technological games (93.75%), listening to music (87.50%) and the practice of sports (71.88%), as well as the segments of the week and the schedules for the practice of physical-recreational activities with specific components of the sport studied. Conclusions: The diagnosis of the physical-recreational needs and interests of the soccer team studied, determined the need to modify the contents in order to increase motivation, implementing components of the process of directing soccer training for the school category that was analyzed, all these components that serve to complement the loads of sport training in function of the increase of the yield.