It was aimed in our study to research the impact of certain physical parameters on components of motoric features such as speed, strength and flexibility in boys aged 13 to 15 years old playing football through regular exercises of 6-week training program. A training program of 6 weeks that includes motoric feature components were applied on a total of 56 male athletes playing football in a licensed U13-U14-U15 teams of Beylikgücü Sports Football Club in Beylikdüzü county of Istanbul. The trainings continued as 4 days a week and a game in the weekend. The first day the footballers participated in the study, their preliminary test values were taken and following the six-week training program, their last measurements were taken and later these were compared. Descriptive statistics were used in the analysis of the data acquired in the study, and Wilcoxon analysis was used as non-parametric methods in hypothesis tests. The reason why non-parametric tests were preferred was because the variables were determined not to have distributed normally in Kolmogorov Smirnov test conducted to determine whether the dependent variables showed normal distribution. The acquired findings were evaluated in the confidence interval of 95% and at the significance level of 5%. A significant difference (p<0.01) was determined between the calf, back, biceps, femur, subscapularis, triceps, abdomen, suprailiac circumference and fat measurements and right hand grip and left hand grip strength, ten meters (sprint) running, flexibility and sit and lie down measurements of the test subjects before and after the 6-week training program. In spite of this, it was seen that there was no significance difference in vertical jumping, sit-up, push-up and thirty meters (sprint) measurements. As a result, almost a twofold increase was observed in the hand grip strengths of the age group 13 – 15 in comparison to the age groups of 10-12 and 11-13, and while our study shows parallelism with the adolescent age groups in literature, it draws the attention to the twofold increase in the age group of 15.

This study aims to investigate the effects of 8-week football training on selected physical fitness elements and fine motor skills in 11-13-year-old children. Among the children who participated in the study, the children playing football in Marmarisspor formed the experimental group (n: 30), and the children studying at Salih Zeki Gür Secondary School formed the control group (n: 30). In total, 60 volunteer children participated in the study. The experimental method is applied in this study. Football training was applied to the participating group for 8 weeks, 3 days a week, and 50-60 minutes, and no exercise was applied to the control group. Statistical analysis of the data obtained from the research was done in the SPPS (version 16.0) package program. After examining the normality distribution of pre-test and post-test values of experiment and control groups with the Shapiro-Wilk test, paired t-test was used to compare the averages. The significance level was accepted as p <0.05. As a result of the statistical analysis, among averages of pre-test and post-test values the standing height, body weight, body mass index, flexibility, handgrip strength, balance, fine motor skill, 30-meter sprint and aerobic capacity (ml/kg/min) of the experimental group, there was a significant difference at a significance level of p <0.05. When the pre-test-post-test values of the control group's height, body mass index, handgrip strength, balance, fine motor skill, 30-meter sprint and aerobic capacity (ml/kg/min) were compared, while it was observed that there was no significant difference (p> 0, 05); there was a significant difference between body weight and flexibility features (p <0.05). It has been observed that 8-week football training positively affects body weight, body mass index, flexibility, handgrip strength, balance, fine motor skill, 30-meter sprint, and aerobic capacity (ml/kg/min).

The aim of the study was to determine the effect of football school program and physical education curriculum on changes in the motor abilities of 7- and 8-year-old boys. The study included a sample of 180 boys divided into group 1 (7-year-old boys), subdivided to experimental (n = 40) and control (n = 50) groups, and group 2 (8-year-old boys), subdivided to experimental (n = 40) and control (n = 50) groups. Experimental groups included children attending three training units of football training over a 9-month period, in addition to the conventional physical education curriculum. Control groups included children attending only conventional physical education curriculum. All study subjects underwent testing with a battery of 12 motor tests at the beginning and at the end of the study. Results obtained by discriminative canonic analysis showed no statistically significant between-group difference in motor abilities at the beginning of the study. However, significant differences in fa...

The present study aims to improve the efficiency of the specialized physical training process, depending on the targeted motor qualities, in our case speed and strength, is an increasingly accessed topic in search of obtaining a higher yield in a more efficient time. The study was conducted on a sample of 16 subjects, members of the U12 group. In the case of the applied program, we seek to achieve the proposed objectives, and by carrying out the planned, measured and interpreted physical training, we want to highlight the essential moments in the formation and development of the proposed program.

The objective of this study is to examine some physical fitness characteristics of 13-14 years old male football players. A total of 74 children were included in the study who participated in FCBescola, Kartepe 2013 football camp. 46 of them are licensed active male football players, (n=22) 13-year-olds and (n=24) 14-year-olds who are playing in different sports clubs. 28 of them are sedentary males, (n=13) 13-year-olds and (n=15) 14-year-olds, who are living in Children Welfare Homes. Measurements of height, weight, body mass index, Illinois agility test and 30-meter sprint, flamingo balance test, grip strength and sit and reach test were carried out. The data obtained were recorded with SPSS 20 program. Independent t test was used to find out the differences between groups, while Pearson Correlation test was used to analyze the associations between the variables and the level of significance was taken as p<0.05. For 13-year-old footballer and sedentary groups the results were found as follows, respectively: body mass index (18,80±1.20 and 20,09±1,76) Illionis agility test (18,92±2,01 and 21,23±2,07 sec), 30 meter sprint (5,22±1,35 and 5,96±1,86 sec), balance (4,50±3,07 and 4,12±2,75), right hand grip (21,2±3,0 and 16,3±1,8 kg), left hand grip (17,3±3,2 and 13,9±1,2 kg), sit and reach test (22,12±3,42 and 21,76±2,96 cm), while the results were found as follows for 14-year-old footballer and sedentary groups, respectively: body mass index (19,20±1,4 and 19,56±2,19), Illionis agility test (17,75±1,85±21,20±2,02 sec), 30 meter sprint (4,99±1,12 and 5,95±1,43 sec), balance (4,20±2,87 and 4,48±2,25), right hand grip (26,3±3,2 and 17,3±1,9 kg), left hand grip 24,0±2,5 and 15,2±2,1 kg) sit and reach test (22,12±3,42 and 22,23±3,75 cm). Statistically significant differences were found between athletes and sedentary group and between 13-year-olds and 14-year-olds in terms of Illinois agility test, 30-meter sprint, right and left hand grip strength values (p<0.05). Differences were found between some physical fitness characteristics of 13 and 14 years old male football players.

Football is one of the most famous games that man has invented. It is a complex of collective organization and individual ingenuity. No doubt, top results in sport require a serious base of scientific researches and skills. Certainly, modern top results that have been achieved can be analyzed scientifically. It is exactly the scientific approach that is to establish the characteristics of basic importance to provide success in football. It is in favor of top football game to regularly conduct researches, which, as elements of special interest, would cover the basic motoric and specific motoric abilities with football players.The subject of the research is the motoric and specific motoric abilities with young football players aged from 14 to 16. The goal of the research is to establish how the explosive power influences the dribbling skills. The sample of respondents in the research consists of 39 school children at the age of 14 to 16, who play at FC &quot;Gjilani&quot; and have att...

Basketball and football are very dynamic sports that incorporate intermittent and skill demanding activities, as a combination of individual and team skills. The aim of this study was to define physical profile of 14 year old football and basketball players, based on discovered differences in morphological, motor and functional domain. The sample was consisted of 40 boys, aged 14. Morphological variables: body height, body mass, body mass index, body fat percent, arm span and chest circumference. Motor variables: 10 m sprint, zig-zag test, polygon backwards, squat jump, shoulder fl exibility and push-ups. Functional test: Yo-Yo intermittent endurance test level 2. Th e following apparatuses were used: body composition analyzer (TANITA BC 418-MA III), photo cells (Globus ergo System), jumping fi eld platform (Globus ergo systeм), centimeter tape, mattresses and audio signal machine. The results showed significant differences between football and basketball players in variables body h...