Expression of values in Lithuanian young football players

Abstract

Development of values in young persons – both actively engaged into physical activity or physically inactive – is an urgent trend in researches. Such factors as social environment, parents, competitive atmosphere during sport event, as well as external social values have the greatest influence on the emotions and experience of young people engaged into sporting activity; these factors can either enhance their motivation to engage into sporting activity and make progress, or, on the contrary, lead to drop out from sport. Scientific works treat football as a holistic process, taking into consideration the aspects of social development of the players. This process embraces attitudes and motivation, physical preparation, teaching and further development of the motions and habits, as well as expression of the players’ skills in competitive activity. So far, Lithuanian scientific works have been dealing mostly with young football players’ motor habits, as well as with the expression of physical and functional capacities in their training sessions and competitions; however, analysis on value expression in the process of young football players’ (self) development has not been carried out yet.