Anthropological characteristics of the football players in different competition ranks

This research was conducted on the sample of 180 football players aged 18-28 years in different competition ranks. 30 variables were applied, out of which 11 anthropometric measures, 12 motor tests, 3 for the assessment of cognitive abilities and 4 for the assessment of conative characteristics. The aim of the research is to define anthropological characteristics for each rank of competition, to define differences in some anthropological characteristics referred to the competition rank and to isolate factor which significantly discriminate football players in relation to the competition rank. Besides the basic statistics multivariate analysis of variance was calculated (to define the significance of the variability in all analyzed competition ranks). In the end discrimination analysis was applied (to define relative contribution of each variable to differing of football players in all analyzed competition ranks and in all four researched areas. .