The Effectiveness of a Cognitive Counseling Program in Planning Thinking and Some Basic Skills in Football among the Youth of Erbil Club

Abstract

The research aims to: 1- Preparing a knowledge counseling program for the youth of Erbil Football Club. 2- Identifying the differences between the pre- and post-tests of the experimental and control groups in planning thinking and some basic skills in football among the youth of Erbil Club. 3- Identifying the differences in the post-tests between the experimental and control groups in planning thinking and some basic skills in football among the youth of Erbil Club. The researchers used the experimental method in order to suit it and the nature of the problem, and the researchers selected the research sample in the deliberate way, which represents the youth players of Erbil Club and the participant in the Iraqi Football League for professional clubs under 19 years old, which are (28) players, and the sample was divided into two groups (experimental and control), and the researchers relied on the use of the (Version-22) SPSS system to extract the results. The researchers reached some conclusions, the most important of which are: 1- A clear superiority was achieved in improving some basic football skills for the youth players of Erbil Sports Club when comparing the pre- and post-tests using the cognitive counseling program and its techniques prepared by the researcher in the experimental group. 2- The experimental group was superior to the control group in developing the planning thinking of the youth players of Erbil Sports Club when comparing the two dimensional tests of the two groups. 3- The experimental group outperformed the control group in the post-tests Improving some basic football skills for the youth players of Erbil Sports Club when comparing the experimental and control groups. The researchers recommended the following: 1- The need to pay attention to cognitive counseling programs, which are part of long-term psychological preparation programs in teaching some basic cognitive and skill aspects of football. 2- The necessity of conducting similar studies in other sporting events.