Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence and its Relationship to Some Basic Skills for Junior Football Players under 13 Years

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the relationship of bodily-kinesthetic intelligence with some basic skills in football for juniors under 13 years, which included passing, dribbling, and scoring. Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is one of the motor cognitive concepts to reach the desired goal with the least possible ability, as bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is the experience and efficiency of the individual in using body as a whole to express his thoughts and movements, the research sample was (46) players of the Bazwaya Football Academy for ages under (13) years for the (2023) football season, the researcher used a psychometric for bodily-kinesthetic intelligence consisting of (19) paragraphs, the player answers the paragraphs of the scale according to four alternatives (always, frequently, slightly, never), the scale was corrected by giving degrees (4, 3, 2, 1) respectively for all paragraphs of the scale, and the researcher also used skill tests that included passing, dribbling and scoring, The results showed a significant correlation between bodily-kinesthetic intelligence and the three skills addressed in the study, so the researcher recommends paying attention to including training curricula for young players exercises that develop bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, and trying to conduct studies that include other types of intelligence.