Anaerobic power in junior soccer players

The practice of sports attracts children and young people to sports centers who actively join. In many occasions this incorporation is done taking into account only the demographic information of the players. Likewise, the training program designed prioritizes the technical elements of the sport, the time invested by the prospective player is spent in the routine of ball handling. The essential characteristics that a player possesses, which will develop throughout his sporting life and constitute the basis for optimal performance, are left aside. The objective of this monograph is to present the results obtained from an evaluation of the anaerobic power of the lower body, carried out on a sample of soccer players, between 12 and 19 years old, belonging to 4 sports clubs in Caracas. For this purpose, two physical laboratory tests were used: the Abalakov jumping test and the 30-second Wingate test. This material is shown as a guide of the process carried out to complete the evaluation of players who are starting in the systematized sports practice.