A comparative study on physical fitness variables between visva-bharati university and sidho-kanho- birsha-university football team

Abstract

The official football literature shows that patience speeds, agility, explosive strength, cardio-respiratory endurance, flexibility are essential prerequisites for effective overall soccer performance. Speed, agility, cardiorespiratory endurance, and flexibility are critical, interdependent components of soccer, directly influencing a player's ability to sprint, change direction, endure 90+ minutes of high-intensity action, and reduce injury risk. The objective of the study was to compare the physical fitness variables between the Visva-Bharati University football team and Sidho-Kanho-Birsha-University football team. For the purpose of study 20 male football players were selected purposively as the subject for the study. Among them 10 were selected from Visva-Bharati University, W.B and rest of 10 were selected from Sidho-Kanho-Birsha-University, WB. The age of the subjects ranged between 17 to 25 years. The variable selected for the study was speed, agility, cardiorespiratory endurance and flexibility. To compute the data, descriptive statistics and t-test was used. For fitness variables the t-value of explosive strength, agility, flexibility, cardiorespiratory endurance and speed were 2.44, 1.044, 3.239,-2.55 and -1.592. Except agility and speed remaining t value of the selected variables were found significant at 0.05 levels. The result of the study revealed that Sidho-Kanho-Birsha university football players were better in explosive strength, flexibility and cardiorespiratory endurance than Visva-Bharati University football players.