AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON EFFECT OF SMALL SIDED GAMES ON AGILITY AND DRIBBLINGABILITY OF JUNIOR SOCCER PLAYERS

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of small sided soccer games (SSSG) on agility and dribbling ability of junior soccer players. Pre test - Post test Random Design was used and total 40 (n=40) junior soccer players were selected as subjects from KV, Churachandpur, Manipur, India and equally divided into two groups and four weeks small-sided games were provided to the experimental group, whereas control group did not receive any training. The dependent variables: Agility and Dribbling Ability were assessed by 4 x 10 mts Shuttle Run and Dribbling Test respectively. For normality of the data Shapiro-Wilk Test was applied. As Descriptive Statistics mean, standard deviation and standard error of means were calculated. Further, One-Way Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) was applied and the significance level was set at 0.05. All statistical analyses were computed on IBM SPSS software; Version: 25. After statistical calculations it is found that there is significant effect (p<0.05) of small-sided soccer games on agility (p<0.05) and dribbling ability (p<0.05) of junior soccer players.