Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine physical status and coordinative abilities among university level female football players in relation to different playing positions i.e. goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and attackers. A sample of forty (N = 40) female football players (mean ± SD: age 22.17 ± 1.41 years, height 1.61 ± 0.02 m, weight 56.00 ± 1.43 kg, BMI 21.39 ± 0.70), which includes ten each goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and attackers, who participated in inter-college competitions of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India, was selected. All the participants were informed about aim and methodology of the study and they volunteered to participate in this study. The study was conducted on selected coordinative abilities i.e. orientation ability, differentiation ability, reaction ability and balance ability. One way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was applied to find out the significance of differences with regard to coordinative abilities among female goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and attackers in football. Scheffe’s post-hoc test (SPHT) was applied to see the direction and significance of differences where ‘F’ value found statistically significant. The level of significance was set at 0.05. While comparing the means, it is revealed that goalkeepers had better orientation ability, reaction ability and balance ability than their counterparts; defenders, midfielders and attackers. It is also observed that attackers had better orientation ability, reaction ability and balance ability than their counterparts; defenders and midfielders.However, defenders showed better differentiation ability than goalkeepers, midfielders and attackers. Further, significant differences were found between football players of different playing positions with regard to orientation ability (p ? 0.05) and balance ability (p ? 0.05) but insignificant differences were found with regard to differentiation ability (p ? 0.05) and reaction ability (p ? 0.05).

Keywords

Coordinativeabilities, Football, Goalkeepers, Defenders, Midfielders, Attackers,

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