Effect of training break on physical fitness and technical skills of football players

Bimal Kumar Roychoudhury

Football Coach # Veteran footballer # Master of Sports # Former Deputy Director of Government of Tripura

Football is a game of continuous movement. All players’ execute explosive sports, sprints, sudden stops, twist a runs. They jump, bend dive, run, stretch and play the ball with various parts of their bodies, except hands and arms wick are use for balance and centre movements only. Football is team game, a body contact contest, which demands a high level of endurance, speed, ability etc. these abilities can only be acquired through a programme of regular conscientious training. The training of football players has become more and more scientific and systematic on the past few decades.

Methods should be adopted to set the time and facilities available. What ever a player may be required to do in training he must be considered as a whole person. A football player reacts mentally and physically in each and every situation. Certain requirement of training however makes specialised considerations necessary. This consideration arises from the development of our knowledge concerning strength, power and endurance. A soccer player is expected to produce peak performance once or twice a weak for eight or nine months and the effects of sustained competitions are difficult is calculated objectively.

Training in football as in any other sports and games is carried out to achieve high performance. Method and means of training are selected, taking into consideration and physical, technical and tactical demand placed on the players during a competitive match. The development of the game both in offence and defense and the performance demands are to be understood foe proper formulation of specific training.

ULATOWSKI (1973) has emphasized that every training programme must be realistic and related to the specificity of the activity.

HEDDERGOTT (1976) stated that a football player must be aware of the performance requirements and the principles governing performance for a high standard of play.

Training causes a reduction of fatty tissue within a muscle and this result in grater efficiency and fasted construction. The mire miter units are involved the better is the strength and more quickly the resistance can be overcome.

A year round conditioning programme is always advocated in football. These makes possible the achievement of high performance level through out entire sports season and enable further increase from year to year (Harre 1979, Matwe Jew 1981, Singh 1981).

The training programme is prepared to increase strength, endurance, speed, flexibility, technical skills, ability and acclimatization and maintain optimum weight level, psychological readiness and to form desirable health habits.