Features of the application of the method of ball selection "tackle" of the opponent in the competitive activities of elite football players men and women

Relevance. As one of the features of the transformation of individual defensive actions in modern football, experts note a steady tendency to increase the frequency of using one of the most radical methods of selecting the ball from the opponent «tackle» in the game. In the scientific and methodological literature, including women's football, there is practically no data on the features of technical and tactical actions in the competitive activities of athletes when performing this defensive technique, which, in our opinion, limits the range of possible training effects when improving individual defensive play. The purpose of the study was to establish the features of the ball selection by the method of «tackling» in the competitive activities of highly qualified football players men and woman. Research methods: analysis of special literature, pedagogical observation, methods of mathematical statistics. Results of the study. On the example of men's football in the considered sample of analyzed matches (n = 29) of Russian and European teams, the average per game indicator of the number of «tackles» is 13.9 ± 4.0 techniques performed, on the example of women>s football, slightly smaller quantitative values were established (8.4 ±2.1). At the same time, the percentage of violations of the rules of the game is approximately the same for men and women. A list of the main factors that determine this technical and tactical action has been determined. According to the correlation analysis, the degree of correlation between the final result of the match and the number of violations of the rules of the game when performing a «tackle» has been identified. Conclusion. In the competitive activities of highly qualified athletes in both men's and women's football, the analyzed quantitative parameters and characteristics have their own characteristics. The frequency of applying the selection of the ball by the «tackle» method and the number of violations in this case of the rules of the game can depend on a variety of factors, the main of which, in our opinion, are: the class of opponents, the tournament significance of the face-to-face meeting, the time period of the match, technical readiness of the player, who performs the selection of the ball from the opponent by the method of «tackling».