Evaluation of Balance Performance and its Determining Factors throughout the Training Periods of Macrocycle in Young Football Players

Fifty amateur male football players (14-16 and 17-19-year-olds): 25 in each group, will be included in the study. The protocols for Anthropometry, goniometry, dynamometry, static and dynamic balance measurement, feet kinaesthetic sense detection, and vertical jump height measurement will be elaborated. A longitudinal observational study will be performed - testing of the participants will be done 4 times: 9 and 22 weeks after the beginning of the competition season, at the end of the competition season, and in the middle of the preparation period. The obtained datasets (6 completed protocols of 2 age groups, repeated 4 times during one training macrocycle) will be included in scientific databases “Science Data Bank,” etc. The research outcome will be knowledge on balance performance, leg muscle strength and power, flexibility, and kinaesthetic sense acuity changes throughout the macrocycle in football players and elaborated recommendations for coaches and physiotherapists to include additional special exercises in training sessions to enhance these characteristics in each training period. The results will be published in 2 original research articles in Q1, and Q2 journals indexed in Scopus or Web of Science databases, the data will be presented at 2 international research conferences, and 1 PhD and 2 Master theses by supervised students will be completed or defended, obtained knowledge will be dissipated in educational seminars for sports coaches and physiotherapists.