Investigation of the effect of branch-specific coordination activities on skills in U15 and U16 age category male soccer players

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of branch-specific coordination activities on the skills of U15 and U16 age category Male Footballers. Literature reviews were made in accordance with the subject of the study. Information was given about skill tests of the problems related to the subject. 36 U15 and 36 U16 volunteers participated in this study conducted in Antalya province and a total of 72 athletes. A training program lasting 6 weeks in total was given to the athletes. As a data collection tool in research; To measure the football-specific skills of the athletes, the Mor - Christian general football skill test and the Yeagley football test battery were applied. The normality of the distributions of these variables relative to the groups and the homogeneity of variances were determined by the Shapiro Wilks test. Analyzes of the effect of in-group training in correlation of these data we obtained were examined with the Paired Sample T Test, and the analysis of the differences regarding the effect of training between groups was examined with the Independent Samples T Test, and the significance level was accepted as 0.05. As a result; It was found that there was a statistical difference in favor of the experimental group in the measurement values ​​(p <0.05) of the ball time, passing, ball bounce and shot tests of the experimental group and the control group players. Keywords: Football, Skill, Coordination, Football Skill