What Training for the Young Soccer Player?—A Letter to Editor

This diversification of the motor tasks with which the young soccer player is confronted, involves a continuous search for solutions to motor problems in order to find the most adequate, economical and correct coordination. The idea of verifying the effectiveness of this supplementary training is consistent with the proposals of models of talent development or young sportsmen present in literature: the Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD), the Developmental Model of Sport Partecipation (DMSP), the Athletic Skills Model (ASM) and the Composite Youth Development (CYD) are just a few examples of longterm training patterns. The LTAD, for example, provides a very broad basis for experimentation with all the fundamental movements and constitutes a real point of reference for planning multi-year training. For these reasons, the integration of knowledge of fundamental movements, the knowledge of correct execution technique and the introduction of sportspecific exercises with constraints manipulation (Small-sided games) can represent a functional methodological orientation end to the soccer player development.