The Characteristics of Building Long-Term Training Systems for Footballers in Foreign Countries

A scientific understanding of building a rational system of long-term training for footballers in Ukraine, as well as ways of its practical implementation, should rely on foreign experience in this field to be effective. The article aims to theoretically and methodologically justify foreign experience in building a rational system of long-term training for footballers. Each country demonstrates its options for solving this particular problem. The countries occupying leading positions in European football have well-established organizational and management systems for training and selection of athletes in the process of long-term improvement. In general, all of the above-mentioned countries use similar systems with their own specifics stemming from national traditions, economic and logistical conditions. Differences in the training of footballers from different countries are due to the different role and degree of participation of governmental, non-governmental and private structures.