Examination of aerobic and anaerobic capacities and football-specific technical skills of young football players

The purpose of this research is to examine "the aerobic and anaerobic capacities of young football players and football-specific technical skills". In this research, survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used. The sample group of the research consisted of 38 athletes playing football in the U-19 category of Bayburt Special Administration Sports Club. Football players were asked to take anthropometric measurements (height, weight), anaerobic tests (vertical jump test, flexibility test, Illinois agility test, leg strength test, star balance test), aerobic test (cooper test) and Mor-christian general football ability test (dribbling, shooting and passing accuracy) measurements were taken. The measurement results obtained as a result of the research were transferred to the SPSS 22 package program and the normality test was first applied. The mean and standard deviation values of the data obtained from the measurements were calculated. According to the results obtained, the skewness and kurtosis values of the data distribution were found to be between -1.5 and + 1.5, which Tabachnick and Fidell (2013) reported as an indicator of whether a data was normally distributed or not, and it was understood that the data showed a normal distribution. In the analysis of these normally distributed data sets, parametric tests such as one away anova and descriptives tests were performed. As a result of the tests applied to the athletes, the football players' anaerobic tests (agility, flexibility, leg strength, vertical jump and star balance), aerobic test (endurance) and football-specific skills and abilities (dribbling, shooting and passing accuracy) were respectively (p<,000-, p<,000-, p<,000) It was found that there was a significant difference. As a result of the study, it is thought that motor skills (agility, flexibility, strength, endurance and power) positively affect football-specific technical skills (dribbling, shooting and passing accuracy).