Effects of soccer training programme on soccer skills and physical fitness variables of school level tribal students

Abstract

The aim of the study was to find out the effects of specific soccer training programme on soccer skills and physical fitness variables namely passing, dribbling, endurance and leg explosive power of school level tribal students. For the purpose of the study 60 tribal students were selected from Pandit Raghunath Murmu Abasik School, Nangla, Susunia, Bankura, and West Bengal, India. The age of the subjects were 14 to 16 years as per school record. Sixty tribal students were sub divided into two group’s i.e. experimental tribal (N=30) and control tribal (N=30). The training was given to the experimental group 4 day per week, par day one session for the period of the eight weeks. The content group was not provided any kind of specific soccer training. Pair T-Test was used to calculate the acquired data on soccer skills and physical fitness. Level of significance was set at 0.05 level. Result revealed that experimental group significantly improved their passing, dribbling, endurance and leg explosive power performance after 8 weeks specific soccer training but the improvement of control group was not significant.