Author(s): Putul Mandal and Dr. Ashim Kumar Bose

Abstract:
Football is most popular game worldwide, although there is insufficient information available concerning the physical characteristics and physiological variables of girl football players. Number of scientific information on girl footballers is insufficient. The purpose of this study was to investigate the comparison of physical characteristics and physiological variables among jungle mahal & plane region girl football players of West Bengal. For this purpose 83 girl football players from jungle mahal and 71 girl football players from plane region were selected. An attempt has been made to investigate the various physical and physiological variables of girl football players from state school Subroto Cup football tournaments and West Bengal State School Girls Football Competition of West Bengal. Physical and physiological profiles were measured by standard procedures. ‘t’ test was applied to calculated the collected data at 0.05 of significant. From the data it was noted that the jungle mahal girl footballers usually showed better in weight, height, thigh circumference, calf circumference, shoulder diameter,foot breadth and lean body mass than the plane region girl football players. The percentage of body fat is lesser in respect of lean body mass of jungle mahal girl footballers. On the other hand lean body mass is lesser in respect of percentage of body fat of plane region girl footballers. The mean difference between the groups in respect of systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure were insignificant. Whereas resting pulse rate is negatively significant between the groups. It may be concluded from the data analysis that physical characteristics and physiological variables were better in jungle mahal girl footballers than plane region girl footballers.

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