Author(s): N Kodeeswaran and Dr. K Murugavel

Abstract:
Position wise specific skill training is a program includes fitness and performance training designed specifically for athletic performance enhancement. Training programs for game performance enhancement could include such areas as dribbling, passing, shooting and other than to developing in strength, speed, power, endurance, flexibility, mobility, agility, mental preparedness (including goal setting), sleep, recovery/regeneration techniques and strategies, nutrition, rehabilitation, and injury risk reduction. The purpose of this study was to find out the effects of position wise specific skill Training on skill performance variables of School level football players. The research was carried out on a sample of sixty sub junior school students. The pretests were conducted for all subjects on all selected variables to collect data. All subjects were divided randomly in to three groups as experimental group (twenty). The training program was performed sixty minutes per day, 3 days per week for a period of twelve weeks. All selected physical and functional variables were assessed by standard tests; Dribbling (Ronaldo speed dribbling test), Passing (Sir Bobby Christian Soccer Skill Test) and Kicking (McDonald Soccer skill test). The twelve week position wise specific skill training was conducted followed by post-test for all selected variables. The results of analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) indicated that the experimental group had shown significant improvement in all selected variables excepted. Hence, the position wise specific skill training program appears to be an effective way of improving skill performance variables of school level football players. So soccer coaches and physical education teachers as well as others involved in coaching one or other game can make use of this information in the process of planning their training program.

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