The aim of the research was to construct an attentional control scale in football for fifth-grade secondary school students, design skill exercises using Fitlight technology, employ them in practical physical education football lessons, and identify the effect of these exercises on attentional control and the performance of corner kick and penalty kick skills. The researcher hypothesized that there would be statistically significant differences between the pre- and post-test results of both the experimental and control groups in attentional control and in the performance of the corner kick and penalty kick skills in football, as well as statistically significant differences between the post-test results of the experimental and control groups in the same variables. The experimental method was adopted using a design with two groups (experimental and control). The research population consisted of fifth-grade secondary school students in the morning study at Al-Jawahiri Secondary School during the academic year (2024–2025), totaling 180 students, all intentionally selected using the comprehensive enumeration method (100%) from this population. The sample was distributed as follows: 10 students for the pilot experiment, 110 students for constructing the attentional control scale in football, and the remaining 60 students were selected as the main experimental sample representing the experimental and control groups. The researcher developed a new specialized attentional control scale in football for this category of students by following several field procedures and statistical analyses. Skill exercises using Fitlight technology were designed and applied to the experimental group for eight weeks at a rate of one lesson per week. After completing the experiment, the research results were analyzed using the SPSS statistical system. The conclusions indicated that the attentional control scale in football is suitable for fifth-grade secondary school students and possesses acceptable scientific foundations and coefficients. The use of skill exercises with Fitlight technology within football teaching in practical physical education lessons was found to be appropriate for fifth-grade secondary students and helped improve attentional control as well as the performance of corner kick and penalty kick skills in football among the students who practiced them compared with their peers who studied without them. The study also recommended adopting cognitive measurement in physical education lessons, particularly measuring each student’s level of attentional control to support the improvement of football skill performance, avoiding excessive intensity or levels of lighting when using Fitlight technology, and emphasizing practice and repetition in the practical application of skill exercises when designing motor programs for football skill performance.