An investigation of selected football skills performance with playing position of youth project players of hadiya zone

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the selected football skill performance with playing position of youth football project players of Hadiya zone. To conduct this study, Cross sectional design method was used in order to collect the data from players at once. For this purpose the following variables were selected as the experimental variables namely, dribbling, passing, kicking, shooting and heading. To achieve the purpose of the study, as samples for players for each position namely defenders (n=30), midfielders (n=30), and offensive (n=30) players were selected randomly. Thus the total samples for this study were ninety (90) subjects from project players. The selected samples were addressed from various football project players. The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS software version 21.0.Mean and standard deviations were calculated, the mean score of dribbling (=7.43 +1.006, 8.93 +0.94, and 7.96 +1.06) as defender, mid-fielder and attacker respectively. The mean score of passing (=26.43 +1.006, 30.2 +1.60 and 30.06 +1.52) respectively. The mean score of kicking (=63+4.38, =61+ 3.82, and 61 + 3.34) respectively. The mean score of shooting (=27.94 +1.24, 32.2 + 1.84, and 33 + 1.94) respectively. The mean score of heading (=18.43 + 1.04, 18.06 + 1.01, and 19.16 + 1.39) as defenders, mid-fielders, and attackers respectively. The one way analysis of ANOVA was used to find out the significance of mean difference on the variables among the defensive, mid filed and offensive players. The alpha level was 0.05 except dribbling and kicking for distance test. Conclusions: so, on the basis of findings it was concluded that all the test items included in this study were highly correlated with playing ability of skill performance. Mid-fielders were better in dribbling and passing skills and the defenders were the worst in dribbling and passing (20m). Attackers were the fastest shooting in the goal (20m) and heading accuracy (10m) skill performance.