The comparative analysis of group unity and physical readiness in team sports (by example of football and volleyball)

While forming and developing a teamgets such a group quality as unity. If it is positive, it favors efficiency of sports activity. Statistics says it is not a rare case when a team,which is less skilled in technique and tactics, wins a clear-cut victory. When such things happen they say that the team has won thanks tofriendship and moral unity of its members. Any team begins with a training group. And if its work is accompanied by its members interestand satisfaction the further team image is going to be the most effective. Sports success is impossible without friendship and unity of asports collective. The objective of the research given was to define distinctions in the team spirit and physical readiness in football and volleyballpicked teams. The research was carried out at the Department of Physical Education (the Faculty of Physical Education, Tomsk StateUniversity) in 2010-2011. The pedagogical experiment involved 28 students. There were created two experimental groups. The first experimentalgroup was composed of the students of the volleyball course; the second one included those ones who were engaged in the footballcourse. The results of group unity investigation based on the socio-metric technique became the foundation to work out psychologicaland pedagogical recommendations for the trainers staff to develop players team interactions. After the trainers had employed these recommendationsgroup unity in the experimental teams was estimated with the help of the socio-metric technique. It was found out that in thefootball team the amount of stars was reduced to two, the number of the preferred increased, there became less neglected membersand there was no isolated" player. In the volleyball team the amount of stars remains the same, the number of the preferred decreased,the number of the neglected and isolated increased. After the pedagogical experiment the comparative analysis of the students physicalreadiness revealed authentic distinctions (p < 0,05) in these commands concerning high-speed, speed and power indicators and endurance.The results of the experiment prove that the applied socio-metric techniques are effective for team sports training. The psychological andpedagogical recommendations to the trainers contain original approaches to team interaction formation. The main principles are to increaseplayers motivation, provoke thinking over the tasks given, create adequate training and competitive conditions, with all that raising thelevel of group unity on the one hand, and level of physical readiness on the other.

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