FEATURES OF THE MOTIVATIONAL SPHERE AND FUNCTIONAL LATERALIZATION OF THE BRAIN IN YOUNG FOOTBALL PLAYERS WITH UNEQUAL PERFORMANCE IN CONTROL TESTS

The study of the role of various factors in the systemic organization of the behavior of athletes in team sports in order to achieve higher performance in competitive activities is an urgent issue in finding ways to improve the effectiveness of sports behavior. 

The research purpose is to identify the characteristics of the functional lateral organization of the brain and motivation in young football players with different performance in control tests. 

Methods and organization of the research. The study was voluntarily attended by young football players from the Torpedo-Luch and Spartak-2 clubs of the State Budgetary Institution of Additional Education of Moscow – sports school of the olympic reserve "Physical Education and Sports Association "Yunost Moskvy" (52 people aged 18-19 years). The study consisted of an assessment of functional lateralization of the brain, motivation, performance parameters of general physical fitness and mathematical processing of the obtained results. 

Results of the research and their discussion. The studied sample of football players was divided into 2 clusters using clustering methods (tree clustering and k – means) based on the general physical fitness test indicators. Reliable differences were found in assessing the influence of the functional lateral organization of the brain and the motivational structure of personality on the successful execution of tests in football players of the selected clusters. Correlation analysis revealed different relationships between indicators of the functional lateral organization of the brain, the motivational structure of football players' behavior and performance indicators of tests on general physical fitness, which indicates a different systemic organization of purposeful athletic behavior among football players from different clusters.

Conclusion. Football players who implement purposeful athletic behavior under testing conditions have differences in the functional lateralization of the brain and the structure of the motivational sphere. Taking into account the combinations of the functional lateral organization of the brain and the motivational structure during the training process will make it possible to realize the potential of young football players with maximum effectiveness.

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