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Assesing Physical Fitness Level of Debrebrhan Kenema Male Football Players

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to assess the physical fitness level of Debre Berhan Kenema male football players in relation to different playing positions i.e. goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and attackers. The whole 25 Debre Berhan Kenema male football players are the participant of the study, Cross sectional study design was applied. The study was conducted on selected physical fitness variables i.e. muscular strength, power, speed and agility. Standard norm were applied for comparing the current fitness level of the players. Descriptive statistics was applied for describing the score of the players by mean and standard deviation. One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was applied to find out the significance of differences with regard to selected physical fitness variables among football players of different playing positions. Post hoc (Tukey HSD) test was applied to see the direction and significance of differences where ‘F’ value found statistically significant. The level of significance was set at 0.05. While comparing the mean, it is revealed that midfielders and defender had almost the same speed. Attackers had shown better speed and agility than their counterparts; - goalkeepers, midfielder, defenders and also Goalkeepers had shown lowest speed and strength than their counterparts, Further, significant differences were found between football players of different playing positions with regard to the variables strength (squat test) (p˂0.05) and agility (Illinois’ test) (p˂0.05), but insignificantdifferenceswerefoundonthevariablespeed,andpowerrespectively(p˃0.05).
DOI: 10.20372/nadre:19924
Author: YEMATAW DERESE
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7090721291
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