THE CHARACTERISTICS OF FOOTBALL PLAYERS’ GAME THINKING AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ITS DEVELOPMENT
Traditional approaches to tactical training organization in football are characterized by different learning stereotypical tactical combinations as possible ways of acting in typical game situations in the form of finished solution algorithms. In this approach, the process of thinking presents minimal: the football players need to remember and recognize the situation and to reproduce the contents of the investigated tactical combination. Game thinking includes in its contents such mental operations as: analysis, comparison, synthesis, decision making. Therefore, for its development is recommended to apply such means and tactical training methods that develop the capacity for independent allocation of significant signs of game situations for analysis, comparison and generalization of them perceived the game situation and take adequate maintenance of tactical decisions.