Contributions Of 12 Weeks Passing, Receiving And Dribbling Drills To Agility Of Jimma University Under-13 Female Football Trainess

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Md.Babul Akhtar , Amanu Eba Muleta

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Specific football training enhance the football players physical fitness. Thus, the purpose of this study to assess the contributions of 12 weeks passing, receiving and dribbling drills to agility of Jimma University Under-13 female football trainees. Experimental research design consisting of 15 U-13 female football trainees (experimental group, EG) and other 15 U-13 female football trainees (control group, CG) was used. The subject of this study was purposively selected. Pre-and-post-test data of agility were taken from both (EG) and (CG) using Agility T-test.  After pre-test, 12 weeks passing, receiving and dribbling drills were provided to the trainees, and then post-test was conducted. The data were entered into Statistical Packages for Social Sicences (SPSS) version 25. Wilcoxon Signed Rank test was used to determine the statistical significance between pre-and-post-test of agility as the result of 12 weeks passing, receiving and dribbling drills, at 0.05. The result of this study showed that Wilcoxon Signed Rank test was statistically significant (Z = -3.408, p = .001). The study concludes that the 12 weeks passing, receiving and dribbling drills significantly contributed to post-test scores of EG’s agility. The study recommends that incorporating a well designed passing, receiving and dribbling drills of 12 weeks training will maximise the agility improvement of football trainees.

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