Mental Imagery and its Relationship to Accurately Aiming for the Football Players

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Sporting outstanding needs to a lot of studies and scientific methods to reach excellence levels in all respects which help athletes to reach these levels and harness all scientific disciplines for this purpose, as well as sport outstanding doesn’t complete only through integrated working between the mind and body, so experts interest in physical preparing in general, and in mental preparing specifically to improve skills learning. Whatever the fitness is high for a player must be mental abilities are moving this body that is working to mobilize the capabilities of the players and their energy to achieve what is best in sport performance. Study aimed to identify of mental imagery and accuracy of the aiming for the members of the study sample and identify the relationship between mental imagery and aiming accuracy with members of the research sample. Study used descriptive approach with correlation manner, the number of subjects were (20) players from sport Sherwana club (first degree) in Klar province - the Kurdistan region, the main experiment is achieved by applying mental imagery measurement and then aiming accuracy test, the study concluded that the visual imagery is of great significance in increasing the accuracy of aiming in football and auditory imagery has a  relationship with a high correlation to increase the accuracy of the aiming as well as the kinetic sense in all different parts of the body for a moment the aiming is very important in the outcome of the aiming.

Keywords: Mental imagery, aaccurately aiming, football.