EFFECT OF FOUR WEEKS SMALL SIDED SOCCER GAMES ON AGILITY AND ACCELERATION SPEED OF JUNIOR SOCCER PLAYERS

Abstract

Aimof the study was to investigate the effect of four weeks small sided soccer games on agility and acceleration speed of junior soccer players. Total 40 (n=40) junior soccer players were selected as subjects from KVS, Churachandpur, Manipur, India and equally divided into two groups and four weeks small-sided games were provided to the experimental group, whereas control group did not receive any training. Pre test - Post test Random Design was used for this study. The dependent variables: Agility and Acceleration Speed were assessed by 4 x 10 mts Shuttle Run and 30 mts Sprint Test respectively.For normality of the data Shapiro-Wilk Test was applied. As Descriptive Statistics mean and standard deviation were calculated.Further,One-Way Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) was applied and the significance was set at 0.05level.All statistical analyses were computedusing IBM SPSS software; Version: 25. After statistical calculations it is found that there is significant effect (p<0.05) of four weeks small-sided soccer games on agility (p<0.05) and acceleration speed(p<0.05) of junior soccer players.