EFFECT OF SMALL SIDED GAMES TRAINING ON SPEED AND AGILITY AMONG SOCCER PLAYERS

Physical Education and Sports

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of small sided games training on speed and agility among soccer players. To achieve the purpose of this study, 20 male soccer players are randomly selected as subjects from the The M.D.T Hindu College, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India. Their age ranged from 17to 20 years. The selected participants were randomly divided into two groups such as Group ‘I’ underwent small sided games training (n=10) and Group ‘II’ acted as control group (n=10).group ‘A’ underwent small sided games training for five days and one session per day and each session lasted for an hour for six week. Control group was not exposed to any specific training but they were participated in regular activities. The data on speed and agility were collected by administering by 30M dash and shuttle run. The pre and post tests data were collected on selected criterion variables prior and immediately after the training programme. The pre and post-test scores were statistically examined by the dependent ‘t’-test and Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) for each and every selected variable separately. It was concluded that the small sided games training group had shown significantly improved in speed and agility. However the control group had not shown any significant improvement on any of the selected variables such as speed and agility.

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