ASSESING PHYSICAL FITNESS LEVEL OF DEBREBRHAN KENEMA MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS

The purpose of this study was to assess the physical fitness level of Debre Berhan Kenema male<br> football players in relation to different playing positions i.e. goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders<br> and attackers. The whole 25 Debre Berhan Kenema male football players are the participant of<br> the study, Cross sectional study design was applied. The study was conducted on selected<br> physical fitness variables i.e. muscular strength, power, speed and agility. Standard norm were<br> applied for comparing the current fitness level of the players. Descriptive statistics was applied<br> for describing the score of the players by mean and standard deviation. One-way Analysis of<br> Variance (ANOVA) was applied to find out the significance of differences with regard to selected<br> physical fitness variables among football players of different playing positions. Post hoc (Tukey<br> HSD) test was applied to see the direction and significance of differences where ‘F’ value found<br> statistically significant. The level of significance was set at 0.05. While comparing the mean, it is<br> revealed that midfielders and defender had almost the same speed. Attackers had shown better<br> speed and agility than their counterparts; - goalkeepers, midfielder, defenders and also<br> Goalkeepers had shown lowest speed and strength than their counterparts, Further, significant<br> differences were found between football players of different playing positions with regard to the<br> variables strength (squat test) (p˂0.05) and agility (Illinois’ test) (p˂0.05), but<br> insignificantdifferenceswerefoundonthevariablespeed,andpowerrespectively(p˃0.05).