Guedes, Janesca MansurKottwitz, Leonardo José2023-02-232023-02-232020http://repositorio.uricer.edu.br/handle/35974/455Football, like other sports, promotes the specialization of athletes to exercise specific technical functions and selective muscle solicitation. The use of functional tests, in which the requirement approaches or reproduces the requirements of the sport activity, allows to evaluate more rigorously and more accurately the possible changes in the functional performance of athletes. This study evaluated the effects of a neuromuscular training program on the physical and functional capacity of amateur football athletes. The sample was composed of 18 players between 15 and 17 years of age from the basic categories of Ypiranga Football Club. Postural stability and lower limb function was evaluated with the Y Balance Test; the muscular strength of ischiostibials with the Single Leg Hamistring Bridge Test; the dynamic knee valve with the Step Down Test; and lower limb instability with the Crossover Hop and Hop Test tests. Following this, exercises based on the FIFA 11+ protocol were held twice a week for eight weeks. After completion, participants were reassessed. The data were evaluated using the t-student test and considered a significance level of p 0.05. There was an improvement in the muscular strength of ischiostibials, in the dynamic valve and in the functional performance of the right lower limb. In relation to the functional performance of lower limbs by means of the hop test and postural stability and lower limb function by the Y balance test it was not possible to observe significant improvements. Based on the results obtained, we can affirm that the application of the FIFA 11+ Protocol promoted an improvement of the muscular strength of ischiostibials and improvement of the dynamic valgus, besides improving the right lower limb in the functional performance of lower limbs.pt-BRFisioterapiaFutebolFisioterapia esportivaPrevenção de lesãoTrabalho de Conclusão de Curso