Implementação do Fifa 11+ na melhora da performance e na prevenção de lesões no futebol em atletas de 7 a 16 anos: uma revisão da literatura

Abstract

The prevention of musculoskeletal injuries in soccer has been widely discussed and researched in recent years. This is because through the prevention of injuries, athletes become less susceptible to injuries, becoming more capable of developing the imposed demands. With this, FIFA 11+ was developed as a pre-training warm-up exercise protocol, with the main aim of preventing football injuries. In addition, with an increase in sports practice at an increasingly early age, young athletes are increasingly subject to injuries and, consequently, to a decrease in sports performance. Thus, the aim of the present study was to review the literature on the use of the FIFA 11+ program for injury prevention and its correlation with improved performance in soccer athletes aged 7 to 16 years. For this, a search was carried out in the Medline (PubMed), PEDro, Scielo, SPORTDiscus and CINAHL databases. The keywords included for this review were: “FIFA 11+”, “injury prevention”, “soccer”, “football”, “teens” and their correlates in Portuguese. Nine clinical trials that evaluated the effects of the FIFA 11+ program on the incidence of injuries and on the sports performance of young athletes were included in this review. According to the results of the studies reviewed, evidence suggests that this program can both reduce the incidence of injury in young male and female soccer players, and improve performance, with regard to gaining neuromuscular control, improving in jumping performance, agility and isokinetic strength.