A comparative effect of soccer training in small playfield and regular official size playfield in the selected soccer skill performance

The purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of training in small size playfield and regular official size playfield in the selected soccer skill performance of soccer players. Sixty six districts level male soccer players (age 17–25) of Assam were divided into three unequated group in equal number. Two experimental groups, Group-A and Group-B had gone through the 12 weeks training programme consist of general conditioning, techno-tactical (special conditioning) training and game practice progressively for two and half hour par day, five days per week in Small Playfield (SP) and Regular Official Size Playfield (ROSP) respectively and Control Group-C did not participate to any special training programme. The selected Soccer skill performances were measured before and immediately after completion of the training progrmme. To find out the pre and post training performance and significance differences among the groups the collected data were analyzed statistically through t-test, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Analysis of Co-variance (ANCOVA). The level of significance was observed at 0.05 level of confidence. The finding shows that the selected soccer skill performance i.e. Dribbling (t=3.825>2.08); Kicking for Accuracy (t=6.06>2.08), Juggling (t=2.103 > 2.08), and Running with the Ball (t=2.61 > 2.08) of Group A (SP) were improved significantly. In case of Group- B (ROSP) there were significant improvement of Kicking for Accuracy (t=6.06>2.08), Kicking for distance (t=2.58 > 2.08), and Running with the Ball (t=2.61 > 2.08) show significant improvement. There also significant differences were found between pre test and post test means of composite scores of selected soccer skill performance in both the experimental group A and B (t= 4.746 and 5.145 > 2.08). Insignificant difference was found in the pre-test means of three selected groups as the obtained F-value of 0.072 is less than that of tabulated F-value of 3.144 for the d.f. of 2/63 at 0.05 level and significant difference was found in the post-test means and adjusted means of three selected groups as the F-Value 12.70 and 62.59 are quite higher than the tabulated F-value of 3.144 and 3.146 respectively at 0.05 level of confidence.