A permanência de crianças e jovens nos esportes: olhares para iniciação e especialização esportiva

The practice of sports activities occupies an increasing space in the lives of people, especially children and young people. Such practice, when properly planned and elaborated, always respecting the human development process, can generate numerous benefits to participants, such as adherence to sports practice. In this circumstance, the purpose of the study is to organize contents related to Initiation of Sport and to the reasons that lead children to remain in sports activities, proposing behaviors that the Physical Education teacher should present in Sports Initiation, with a view to nonEarly Specialization. The study is characterized as a point of view, based on the different studies in the literature. Sports Initiation can have a great influence on children and young people. and has different teaching-learning methods. Its process is dynamic and to realize it is necessary planning so that the practice is a pleasurable activity. Faced with the reasons, one of the reasons that can cause the abandonment sport is the Early Specialization. Another important point to highlight is motivation, which depends on extrinsic factors, such as parents and teachers, for example, and intrinsic, such as making new friends, having fun and practicing an activity that has ease, for example. Therefore, these factors influence the permanence of children and young people in the sports context. In this sense, the appropriate preparation of the Physical Education professional must present adequate professional structure, aiming to adapt their classes to the child and youth audience, in order to respect the specificities and particularities of each stage of development, as well as the interest of the group, promoting classes more attractive, aiming the satisfaction of the practitioners. In addition, the preparation should also be composed of characteristics that make the professional to be able to meet all the expectations imposed in the Initiation of Sport, respecting, of course, the process of plurality of motor skills that must be worked on in Initiation Sport.