The impact of an eight-week speed, agility and quickness (SAQ) training program on the attacking ability of midfield football players

Abstract

This present study attempted to discover the effect of the Speed, Agility and quickness (SAQ training) program on midfield soccer players' attacking skills. Twelve Rathnapura district male soccer players (age-under 14) were selected through simple random sampling technique and divided into two groups (6-treatment group and -control group). The Johnson soccer test was introduced before and after the 8week SAQ training program. The paired sample t-test was used to identify the effect of the intervention using SPSS version 21. The result show, that there was a significant difference between pre-test and posttest in treatment group (p= 0.007) and no significant difference were observed in control group (p=0.141) at 0.05 level of significant. According to the results, there was enough evidence to conclude that, SAQ training program had an impact on midfield soccer players' attacking ability. The researchers suggested to include SAQ training to develop attacking skill of soccer players.