THE PRACTICE OF SOCCER AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF GROSS MOTOR SKILLS IN CHILDREN: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.

Abstract

The practice of soccer helps the development of basic motor skills of boys and girls, it also encourages discipline in the early stages, children develop a series of ideal conditions to train mobility. From the age of five, most children are ready to take their first steps in football: they adapt better to movements and tend to have better coordination. Gross motor skills tell us that this factor is the first to make its appearance in the child's development, from the moment he begins to hold his head, sit without support, jump, climb stairs, etc.; are other achievements of gross motor skills that over the years, you will acquire and learn. Therefore, soccer activities at an early age help mostly in the development of portal gross motor skills, a serious reason that at the educational level new alternatives are taken into account to adequately develop the learning of boys and girls. The objective of this review was to determine how the practice of soccer and the development of gross motor skills in children are associated, thus managing to arouse the interest of boys and girls in practicing soccer. The PRISMA methodology was used. As results, it was obtained that the practice of soccer is decisive in the development of gross motor skills and in the sensitive stages of children.