Níveis de agilidade em jovens futebolistas da categoria sub 20 de um clube de futebol da cidade do Natal

Abstract

The events and actions during a soccer game requires the athlete to be prepared to react to the most different stimuli in the most efficient way possível.Tais stimuli include low to moderate intensity activities, featuring aerobic component, and actions of high intensity and short duration, with relevant determination of the anaerobic system, which underlies the physical capabilities, speed, power and agility, aiming to analyze the levels of agility in young footballers category sub 20 a football club from the city of Natal, this is a quantitative descriptive study in young footballers in the Rio Grande do Norte in the age group 17-20 years, the sample consisted of young footballers (17.7 + - 0.72 years; 70.9 + - 5.96 kg; 177 8 + - 7.47 cm) belonging to the ABC Futebol Clube, christmas town soccer team of Rio Grande do Norte state, to determine the levels of agility of players we applied the winding running test adapted from Pitanga (2008 ), and the test was performed on the ABC Futebol Clube training camp, the survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistics with mean and standard deviation, check if there was a significant difference between goalkeepers, defenders, socks and forwards with respect to Agility performance, whichever is the nonparametric Kruskal Wallis. Through this test we proved that there were no significant diferences (p <.05) in performance between the speed positions. We can conclude that the playing position did not influence the agility performance.