Effect of Target Shooting Practice on Accuracy in Goal Scoring Among Football Players

Abstract:

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of target shooting practice on accuracy in goal scoring among Football players. To achieve this purpose sixty male Football players age ranged between 18 to 25 years from Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu were selected as subjects. The selection was made ensuring that all the students were normal and healthy and they were divided into two groups of thirty subjects each namely experimental and control group. The pre tests were taken for both the groups. The experimental group alone underwent the target shooting practice for six weeks while the control group was not given any training. In this study target shooting was measured by using Mor Christian Football test. For this study the true randomized experimental group design has been employed with two groups namely experimental and control group with thirty subjects each. The following statistical procedure was followed to find out the effect of target shooting practice on accuracy in goal scoring among Football players. The data collected were statistically analysed by using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The result of the study indicates that there was significant difference between experimental group and control group in shooting ability in football.

Author Name : Dr. R. Venkatachalapathy

Keywords: Football, Target Shooting, Goal Scoring.