Good agility allows the footballer or soccer player, as they are called in the US, to stop at an instant during play, and change direction suddenly within a short time. Time taken and ability to make decisions in making a successful move has therefore increasingly become a yard stick in football and one of the characteristics that distinguish winners from losing teams. Why agility is importantįootball players are characterised by frequent and fast body movements in varied and chaotic situations during a match. They suggest that new procedures are developed to address the objective of testing agility more accurately. However, a notable suggestion by Sheppard and Young describes agility as ‘‘a rapid whole body movement with change of velocity or direction in response to a stimulus’’, which accentuates the argument for agility as more of conceptual than physical aspect of sport science. In trying to refine the definition, some authors, have argued that most commonly known agility tests actually measure change of direction since these tests target to measure the physical components in the player rather than the cognitive function of agility. Therefore, many have written and referred to both words in cross substititon and appears to have achieved popular acceptance as a dichotomous-definition among readers and sports enthusiasts. It is worth noting however that the understanding of the term agility has recently been used interchangeably with ‘change of direction speed’. In football, agility is described as the cognitive ability of an individual to react and comfortably change their movement direction in the shortest possible time without affecting their balance. Agility:Īgility is a key and valuable component of fitness in professional sports today. Let’s explore agility, where the FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi is known to be excellent. Sports programs are therefore designed with modules that provide adequate training to match the requirements of the sport. Components of physical fitness and physical fitness plans that determine a player’s performance in football include speed, agility, endurance, power and balance.
The need for physical fitness in sports is unquestionable for a player to perform efficiently.
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