University footballers’ game-position-specific physical fitness and physical development tests and analysis

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PhD, Associate Professor E.A. Alenurov1
PhD, Associate Professor M.V. Eremin2
PhD, Associate Professor A.N. Lutkov3
S.V. Pershikov4
1Russian State Social University, Moscow
2Penza State University, Penza
3Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow

Objective of the study was to test and analyze the physical development/ physical fitness in the university football teams versus the players’ game positions.
Methods and structure of the study. We sampled the university football players in Moscow and tested them in March through October 2019 by the standard physical development tests to obtain the body mass, body length, chest size, vital capacity, carpal strength and limb length test rates; and standard physical fitness test toolkit including the 15m sprint (standard/ running start), 30m sprint, 7x50m shuttle sprint, 12-min race, standing high jump, standing long jump, and five-time standing long jump tests.
Results and conclusion. The game-position-specific chest size was expectedly correlated with the vital capacity rates that averaged for wing defenders, forwards, goalkeepers, central defenders, wing defenders and central midfielders. On the whole, the physical fitness test data and analyses made it possible to profile the university football players’ physical fitness on a game-position-specific basis.
The game-position-specific physical fitness / physical development test data analyzed given herein are recommended for application by the university football sport communities in their trainings and line-ups for competitions and for the physical fitness / physical development excellence trainings sensitive to the players’ game positions. 

Keywords: physical development, physical fitness, test data correlations, football players, university students, game positions.

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