ABSTRACT
Background: - Football is one of the most popular games in the world. It has been played by most of the countries. Training programme plays an important role in the lives of human beings for developing their fitness and performances. Purpose: - The purpose of the study was to analyse the effect of six weeks plyometric training programmes on specific soccer skill and playing ability of college going soccer male players age ranging between 18– 22 years. Materials & Methods: - Total 32 subjects were taken for the study from baliapal college of physical education, baliapal, balasore, odisha. They were given the six weeks training programme in the college campus. The training schedule were fixed in the morning session as well as in the afternoon session minimum time duration 90-120 minutes per session with various types of physical exercise and training including warming up, warm down and resting time between and set of exercises. In this investigation, data was collected before and after the training period. The Independent Paired-'t' test was conducted for evaluate the data and the level of significance was fixed at 0.05 level of confidence. Results & Discussion: - The result of the study indicates that the six weeks training programmes were influenced the selected variables such as (i) Mc Donald Soccer Skill Test- Legal kicks within 30 seconds. (ii) Playing ability –It will be taken by the three expert coaches. In Mc Donald Soccer Skill Test, the post-test mean scores (12.40) were increased than the pre-test means (8.30) and there was significant difference found in the pre-test and post-test results. Similarly, post-test mean scores (20.50) in playing ability of the college going soccer players were developed than the pre-test means scores (14.44). The Calculated value of the soccer skill (3.86) and playing ability (4.34) both were better than the table value. So, the results were significant at 0.05 level of confidence. On the basis of the obtained result, it has been observed thatConclusion: - six weeks plyometric training programmes have been affected positively on both kicking performance and playing ability among the college going soccer players.