Author(s): Muhammed Jamshad KC and Dr A Praveen

Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to analyse the effect of small sided games on selected physical and performance related variables among the young soccer players. For this purpose Thirty (30) soccer players selected from Wayanad FC Football Academy, Arapeta, Wayanad, India, their age ranged between 14 to 15 years. The selected subjects were equally divided (15) in to two group, experimental and control group. The experimental group undergoing six week small sided treatment programme and control group was not involved any special treatment programmes. All the selected subjects tested on selected physical and performance related variables such as speed, agility, dribbling, passing and receiving. The data pertaining to the physical and performance related variables were analysed by using dependent T test, and the level of significant was fixed at 0.05 levels. The findings of the study relieves that, the experimental group had made a significant improvement in selected physical and performance related variables such as speed, agility, dribbling, passing and receiving compare to control group. Hence it was concluded that six week small sided games treatment was improved the selected physical and performance variables among the young soccer players.

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