Displacement intensity and distance of futsal players of different game positions

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the distance and the intensity in the characteristics of displacements (walking, trotting, running, lateral and back displacement) in a futsal match in different game positions, during the IV Edition of Capão da Canoa Cup - RS. For this the athletes of the teams (UPF / Zamil, ACBF, Inter Ulbra and Vasco da Gama), were submitted to Withers’ test (1982), with the purpose of identifying each player’s specific stride length characteristic of each displacement. Players were filmed during six games of the cup, and, all games occured in the same place. The sixteen athletes that took part of the sample were divided in four game positions (goalkeeper, fixed, lineman and pivot), it was accomplished through the largest time of participation in court. For analysis of the intensities of the activities, it was selected as activity of low intensity of the back, sides and walk displacements, as medium intensity trotting and as high intensity the race. For the Analysis of Variance was used - Anova - One Way and the test of post-hoc of Tukey, to verify differences between positions and displacements being adopted the level of significance of 5 and 1%. The results presented significant differences between the goalkeepers and the other positions, in the displacements of trotting and running, in the displacement back it was verified that linemen accomplished a smaller distance in this displacement than the other positions, in lateral and in walking displacement there was not significant difference among the positions. It was also verified significant differences among some displacements inside of the characteristic of each position, the Goalkeepers were the athletes that stayed more in court during the games, while the Pivots were the one more substituted and they participated more from the activities of high intensity, verifying so the specificity among the game positions.