Performance analysis of the Indian football team in the Fifa U-17 World Cup

The purpose of the study was to analyse the performance of Indian football team in the FIFAU17 world cup in India. The FIFAU-17 world cup was stirred by the Lion city cup, that was formed by the Singapore Football association, in 1977, it was the first U-16 tournament in the world. Following FIFA formed FIFAU-16 competition. The first tournament was started In china(1985) and tournament have been played each 2 years since. The current edition of the tournaments was hosted by India for the first time in 2017, which become most attended in the history of the tournament. Every competition comprises of a gathering stage, in which four teams play against each other and standings in the gathering table choose which team progress, trailed by a knockout period of progressive matches where the triumphant group propels through the opposition and the losing group is disposed of. This proceeds until the point that two groups stay to challenge the last, which chooses the competition victor. The losing semi-finalists additionally challenge a match to choose third place. 24 teams are taken an interest in the competitions. India played against USA, Columbia and Ghana, India loosed all the games, England won the title, Spainwon the runners up and Brazil won the third place. The performance analysis includes selected offensive and defensive variables. The primary data were collected by the video analysis with the expert. The findings of the study shows that From the descriptive analysis all the selected offensive variables were Dominated by USA, Columbia and Ghana against Indian team, all the selected defensive variables Indian team performance was slightly better than other teams. Finally I concluded that in FIFA U-17 world cup Indian team played with more defensive strategies and tactics, so Indian team wants to better improvement in offensive strategies and tactics also improve the defensive strategies and tactics.