摘要：The aims of the research presented here are to contribute to a better understanding of the neuromuscular basis of football movement patterns and allow its findings to be applied by athletes and their coaches to improve athletic performance. This paper explores explosive power, i.e. the type of force that is present in almost all segments of a football game and is basic for almost all individual skills (dribbling, shooting, heading, shielding, intercepting...), basic movements (e.g. running, changing direction, turning, stopping, dribbling, jumping) and depends on the following physiological qualities: e.g. strength, speed, agility. As a criterion for testing explosive power, the registered ground reaction forces in performing the counter movement vertical jump are analysed, both in performance with one and with both legs. The obtained results have yielded statistically significant variation in force variables, which means that a similar test could be applied to a larger number of examinees with greater reliability. The test can be carried out at any point during the training process as an additional indication of preparedness benefiting both the coach and the athletes themselves.
