| Abstrakt: |
With the aim of determining the trend of development of speed and agility in soccer players, the results of the research conducted on a sample of 68 soccer players aged 12 to 16 were analyzed. The research is transferal in nature, i.e. the results were obtained by measuring the investigated variables at one time point for soccer players aged 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 years. Two variables from the space of morphological characteristics were measured on the tested sample, three variables for speed assessment and one variable for agility assessment. Based on the results of the central and dispersion parameters and the comparison of the arithmetic means of the variables for evaluating speed and agility in football players of different ages, we can see that the results of the 5 m sprint variable indicate that the lowest average value was in football players aged 13 (1 .27 m/s), while the positive growth trend is 5-meter sprint from 12, 14 to 16 years (1.22>1.24>1.13>1.10 m/s). The 10 m sprint variable has the same values at 12 and 14 years old (2.04 m/s), and the growth trend continues at 15 and 16 years old (1.90>1.86 m/s), and the smallest sprint value at 5 m was with a 13-year-old football player. By analyzing the variable that explains the 20-meter sprint, we can see that the results show a negative trend of sprint development. Soccer players aged 14 had the best average score, followed by soccer players aged 12, then 13, and players 15 and 16 had the lowest values. The variable for the assessment of agility (zig zag without ball) has the lowest average value in thirteen-year-olds (6.39 m/s), while there is a positive growth trend from 12, 14 to 16 years (6.21>6.14>6.10> 5.98 m/s). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
