Abstract

Sports have become an integral part of society. The coaches and trainers all over the world are aspiring for better result of their trainers. This can be made possible by conducting studies on the relationship of motor ability and level of skill of the player with their playing ability. The purpose of the study was to find out relationship of soccer playing ability with the selected physical fitness component. The study was delimited to 150 male inter college level player is age group of 19-25 year. The subject was selected from the inter college soccer matches of three university of Punjab. The data was collected during the inter college matches of soccer. The Pearson?s product moment correlation coefficient (r) method was used. The level of p?0.05 was considered significant. The result show significant relationship of playing ability with sprinting speed, agility, endurance and flexibility

Keywords

Physical Fitness, Inter College, Soccer Players,

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