Motor Intelligence and its Relationship to the Performance of Football Goalkeepers

Abstract

There is no doubt that intelligence plays a fundamental and important role for goalkeepers in football  in the implementation of the game plans and duties assigned to them, which require them to possess the skill  performanceand high accuracy to apply them and continue them throughout the match. Through the researcher's modest experience and her follow-up of goalkeepers in the field teams, his familiarity with researches and studies, and his follow-up of the league matches The first degree, the researcher witnessed the fact that practicing the game is a weakness in the goalkeepers in football at a level of motor intelligence, which affected their level of performance, so the researcher decided to study this problem and develop appropriate solutions to it in order to help coaches and goalkeepers in football by studying the relationship between the level of motor intelligence and its relationship with the performance of football goalkeepers. The research aimed to identify the level of Motor intelligence and its relationship to the performance of football goalkeepers, as well as to identify the relationship between motor intelligence and its relationship to the performance of football goalkeepers. The researcher hypothesized that there are statistically significant differences  between motor intelligence and its relationship with the performance of football goalkeepers. The researcher has used the descriptive method in the survey method and relational studies, which means (knowledge of the correlation of variables or knowledge  of the extent to which variables in one factor are consistent with variables in another). (Al-Saadawi et al The research sample was a group of goalkeepers for the first division (2024-2025), which numbered (12 goalkeepers) for her research, where when the researcher seeks to achieve a specific goal or purpose of a study, he selects the sample members in a way that serves and achieves this purpose or goal. By  random method and by lottery  method, the sample of football goalkeepers for clubs (Al-Methaq Club - Al-Adl  Youth Club - Electrical Industries Club - Tourism Club) for the first class for the season (2024-2025) was determined (12 goalkeepers), which is the part that represents the community of origin or model on which the researcher conducts his entire work and focuses on it so that In a deliberate way, guards were selected from the research sample to carry out the exploratory experiment (4 guards from the Tourism Club), while the research tools were represented by the means of collecting information, where the researcher used the following scientific means  to collect information (Arabic sources and references, personal interviews, observation numbers, motor intelligence scale, tests for goalkeepers in football)