Empoli Fc and Studio Paulus: free body gymnastics for young footballers

The project that has been ongoing for many years continues Empoli Fc carry on with Paulus Studio of Bassa in Cerreto Guidi, where physical activity in the gym is combined with work on the field for the little ones of the Soccer school. Rope, rings, pole, Swedish gym, themed routes. These are just some of the exercises free body gymnastics with which the young footballers are helped to become aware of their bodies. "The objectives are to help these kids grow as best as possible, as they are the future not only of football, but also of our company – explains the technical director of the Studio Paulus centre, Paolo Bartolozzi –. The kids develop all the basic motor skills one hundred percent, so that any technical activity such as football, or any other sport, has better results". The idea behind this type of work is to recreate those types of movements that once, playing mostly outdoors, were developed naturally by children. "In the Seventies there was the woods, along the Arno, the ditches, that is, all those natural activities that we did spontaneously, today kids no longer have this opportunity and we must therefore make them find it again – continues Bartolozzi –. It is important for their growth, but in particular for their self-esteem, facing a dribble, an opponent, a contrast on the field comes precisely from the development of basic motor skills and from an open mind towards wanting to do and sacrifice".

A jewel in the crown as defined by the head of the basic activity of Empoli Fc, Tommaso Dalledonne (in the photo of Empoli Fc). "This collaboration is fundamental and the benefits are so many that they allow us to continue this work with great empathy - he says -. We go to work on the basic motor patterns, so everything that we learned perhaps playing in the courtyard when we were little and that nowadays is no longer possible for them. A fundamental aspect to then connect to the football side when they return to the fields of Monteboro".

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