Morphologic characteristics and functional capabilities of women active football players and female dancers of folk dance

Women's football is gaining more and more fans in the world, and it's getting more and more popular in our country, as well. This is a sport of aerobic un-aerobic character that demands everyday trainings during which intervals of showing explosive strength and interval of showing speed and speed endurance interchange. Folklore assemblies of cultural-artistic associations that cherish folk dances, also, have regular and systematic trainings or "rehearsals" during which folk-dances are being trained different choreographies from their program repertoires. The trainings take place at least three times a week and they last for two hours. Different Folklore performances, festivals and fairs of competitive character bring folk dances closer to sport activities The goal of this research is to establish the differences that exist in morphologic characteristics and functional capabilities between the female football players and the female folk dancers. The research has been performed on the sample existing of 34 subjects, female dancers of the Academic folklore assembly "Oro" of the Students' Cultural Center of Nis, and of 21 female football players of the football club "Masinac" from NiS, who compete on the federal level. This research shows that the average height of the female dancers, members of the Academic Cultural-artistic Association, is 165,15±5,04 cm, and that their body weight is 58,64±6,46 kg whereas the average height of the female football players is 167,09±6,60 cm. and their body weight is 62,78+8,05 kg. The average pulse frequency at rest of the female dancers, members of the Academic folklore assembly, is 79,82+7.85/min and their relative maximal Oxygen use (VO2 max) is 38,58±3,88 ml/kg/min. The average pulse frequency at rest of the female football players of the Football Club "Masinac" is 70,57+7,27/min. and their relative maximal Oxygen use (VO2 max) is 48,95±5,86 ml/kg/min. It is considered that results obtained in this way are result of the directed selection and, partly, of the influence of trainings which are specific for both the female folk dance dancers and the female football players.