A Comparative Study of Physiological Characteristics of U17 Ethiopian Youth Sport Academy Football Players

Tilahun Bereded

Abstract

This study entitled “A comparative study of physiological characteristics of U17 Ethiopian youth sport Academy football players” was designed to compare their physiological characteristics. The total number of players (N=81, male=40 and female=41) was taken from Ethiopian Youth Sport Academy. SPSS version 20.0 was used to analyse an independent sample t-test. As the result, there was a statistically significant difference between male and female U 17 age groups in their VO2max, resting heartbeat, vertical jump and systolic blood pressure, except diastolic blood pressure at the p