Indian Journal of Physical Education, Sports Medicine & Exercise Science
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue: 1and2

A comparative study on competition behavior among university level defender, midfielder and striker

  • Author:
  • Kallol Chatterjee1, Biswabandhu Nayek2, Debaprasad Sahu3
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 20 to 22

1Asst. Professor, Department of Physical Education, Visva-Bharati

2Guest Lecturer, Dept of Physical Education, Sree Chaitanya College of Commerce, W.B

3Assistant Professor & Head, Dept. of Physical Education, Mahishadal Girls ’College, W.B

Online published on 15 April, 2019.

Abstract

The present investigation has been conducted with the aim to compare competitive behavior among university level Defender, Midfielder and Striker. The study was conducted on 45 male football players (15 male Defender, 15 male Midfielder and 15 male Striker) were selected from participants of east zone interuniversity tournament during 2012–13. Competitive Behavior was observed by the Competitive Behavior Questionnaire developed by Frank Tyson. To analyze the data for the Competitive Behavior, ANOVA was applied to calculate the collected data at 0. 05 level of significance and to identify the significance differences among the means LSD Post-hoc test was used.. The age ranging ofthe subjects is between 19–24 years. The result showed that there was significant difference between Defender and Midfielder, Midfielder and Striker and also significant difference between Defender and Striker. The result also showed that Striker possess best competitive behavior than defender and Midfielder.

Keywords

Competitive behavior, Defender, Striker & Midfielder