Author(s): Subhendu Bhowmick and Dr. Amit Banerjee

Abstract:
The aim of the study was to investigate the comparative effects of specific soccer training programme on soccer playing ability variables namely soccer playing ability, general soccer ability of tribal and non-tribal school boys. For the purpose of the study 60 tribal school soccer players and 60 non-tribal school soccer players were selected from Purulia district in the state of West Bengal. They were selected randomly. The age of the subjects were varied between 17 to 19 years. Sixty tribal students ware sub divided into two group’s i.e. experimental tribal and control tribal. Similarly non-tribal students ware sub divided into two groups’ i.e. experimental non-tribal and control non-tribal. Each group consist of 30 subjects. The soccer playing ability variables namely soccer playing ability was measured through three experts rating technique, general soccer ability was measured through McDonald soccer test. For the comparison, analysis of covariance was used and the significant level was set at 0.05 level of confidence. The results revels significant differences of means in both tribal and non-tribal group of experimental category.

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